Capture The Natural Way To Draw Published By Kimon Nicolaides Available In PDF

have been drawing since I can remember, and I have been seriously studying art for the last five plus years, I have spent a lot of time focused on the crisp, controlled line and form, carefully trying to copy without seeing, I avoided books like this like the plague because I could never "wrap my brain around that abstract thinking gobbledygook, "

But recently, I realized that I wasn't progressing, My drawings were lacking something important, That was when I was ready to break away from stereotypes and explore this book, I read through the whole thing first and foremost and he explained exactly what I wanted in my drawingsI knew it, but never knew how to get it, Technical knowledge is great, but without the emotion of the human heart, drawings become stiff, mechanical and lifeless, I wanted life in my drawings,

After reading the whole book, I went back and started doing the exercises, Sometimes, they were hard to understand, I hate mysticismtype talk. That whole "feel and don't think, " So it wasn't easy. However, I figured out that it isn't exactly mysticism, Really, everything is made of a gestureif you think about the atoms and energy that naturally flow from all objects, it makes perfect sense, Even an inanimate object is full of energy as the atoms race around,

This book is not the beall endall to learning to draw, but it is an important part of drawing, If you couple this with

more atelier style lessons, your art will definitely improve and faster than you thought, Balance in everything. I read this book back inand reread it over and over, Kimon Nicolaides was a fantastic teacher of art who believed that the way to learn to draw was to learn to observe details and then practice drawing constantly, He put it like this "There is only one right way to draw and that is a perfectly natural way, It has nothing to do with artifice or technique, It has nothing to do with aesthetics or conception, It has only to do with the act of correct observation and by that I mean a physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses, " Therenow the secret is out! This book was written inand still shines brilliantly upon those who care to learn to draw, Nicolaides' work is brilliant. If you want to learn to draw, start right here with this book, I have had this book for years, I really is the best book you could use to learn to draw life, Despite being out of life drawing classes, I continue to turn to this book, It's a great resource to reference, it's not a sitdown read, Simply the bible for life drawing,

R In light of recent reviews, I feel compelled to advocate it, I've taught university life drawing for overyears, If you follow the exercises and do as many as required, your drawings WILL improve immensely, While I agree it is in complete opposition to hard edged, refined type drawingsit is so only as a means, This text was used as a loose framework for my college level drawing course, I say loose because we did use many of the exercises but we did not follow the exact progression, time requirements, or employ every exercise,

I found it an extremely effective method to teach observation and drawing, I have had the chance to be a part of other courses taught using other methods and find this one superior, I am now reading this text again afteryears since my first reading, In light of my education and overyears of drawing experience, my opinion remains the same, I would add that the exercises outlined therein still hold value for the most seasoned visual artist and are the equivalent of scales for the musician, Nice pictues of how other artists have approached the human form, The author also includes many drawing excercises along with examples of student drawings, Not a stand alone book, but the essential compliment to books with a more traditional approach to figure drawing, with their concentration on anatomy, proportions, representation, I can't think of a better way to find one's way to a more personal drawing style, to escape the many imitative traps of representational methods,

With Rush, Peck and Robert Beverly Hale, Nicolaides makes my figure drawing library complete, This book details how to go about thinking, understanding the world as an artist, Along with useful exercises, there is a wondrous amount of good advice, I see this book as a necessary stepping stone in the road of expression, My brother is the artist of pencil, charcoal, acrylics and oils, but you learn a lot about human creativity even if you are a writer and reader like me.
Brilliant, but not for beginners,


"Drawing depends on seeing, Seeing depends on knowing. Knowing comes form a constant effort to encompass reality with all of your senses, all that is you, You are never to be concerned with appearances to an extent which prevents reality of content, It is necessary to rid yourself of the tyranny of the object as it appears, The quality of absoluteness, the note of authority, that the artist depends upon a more complete understanding than the eyes alone can give, to what the eye can see the artist adds feeling and thought, He can if he wishes, relate for us the adventures of his soul in the midst of life, " Kimon Nicolaides This is the best book on drawing that I own or have read, It teaches one to see, The blind contour drawing method was surprisingly helpful, If you check out one drawing book this year, this should be the one,

The instruction is beautifully written and the student drawings included are helpful and inspiring, People complain about the time suggestions ranging fromminutes tohours, But really, do you think you are going to be the best you can be without spending the time Great exercises for skill building or just practice, A book I ought to reread more often, In light of recent reviews, I feel compelled to advocate it, I've taught university life drawing for overyears, If you follow the exercises and do as many as required, your drawings WILL improve immensely, While I agree it is in complete opposition to hard edged, refined type drawingsit is so only as a means, When you skip Nicolaides' experiential cohesive gestures, mass drawings and cross contours and straight through to exacting control, your drawings will remain stiff, disconnected and they won't sit naturally in space a figure is in perspectivejust like a house.
It's easy to go from loose to tight drawing but very hard to go from tight to loose yet accurate because it requires more discipline, focus, quick, accurate observation and excellent hand eye control.
These exercises hone those skills, This is the best book on drawing that has ever been written, and it's the only one I still own, Every time I see a copy at a used bookstore, I buy it and give it to a friend, Amazing highly recommended everyone ! The written parts of this books are longwinded and only marginally useful, The example images are poorly reproduced and fail to illuminate the textual content, This The Natural Way to Draw's biggest selling point is the pedantic "working plans", which basically consist of "Monday: do gestures for eight hours Tuesday: do gestures for eight hours Wednesday: draw cubes for eight hours.
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One can achieve the same effect or better and save some money by just committing solidly to drawing for a certain number of hours each day/week, and picking up one of the more useful books or videos anything Vilppu is full of awesome Betty Edwards is OK too.
I have wondered for a long time how many people have been seriously frustrated and annoyed regarding life drawing the artistic rendering of female and male nudes on mostly paper either during classes or in studio sessions without an instructor.
I do know I have been, and that indeed, until my fiancé who is an artist suggested I try Kimon Nicolaides' first published inThe Natural Way to Draw, I had certainly become so massively disillusioned with the life drawing courses I had tried over the years and with the many pretty much useless instruction books languishing and gathering dust on my bookshelves I was definitely more than ready to give up and throw in the proverbial towel.


And yes, this is most definitely something that Kimon Nicolaides and his The Natural Way to Draw have totally changed for me, with both Nicolaides' positive and encouraging tone of instructing voice in The Natural Way to Draw and even more so his many featured exercises and for me, in particular the ones concerning gesture and contour drawing bringing back not only my drawing and artistic interest and joy but also letting me realise that Kimon Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw amazingly and absolutely lives up to its title and shows interested readers how to draw and render nude models naturally and never in a pedantic and stiffly dictatorial manner, making The Natural Way to Draw not only delighful and engagingly fun but also turning Kimon Nicolaides into a perfect and wonderfully laid back instructor and mentor for budding life drawers.
So if you follow Kimon Nicolaides ' featured and suggested exercises and do as many of them as required and maybe at times even beyond what Nicolaides asks of you in The Natural Way to Draw, in my humble and gained from personal drawing experience opinion, your life drawings, and your skill levels, yes, they should and likely will improve immensely and lastingly, instilling confidence and rendering your drawings of the female and of the male nude and the techniques for them ever increasingly competent, but also and happily loose, imaginative and never once in any manner rigid or anally retentive, a drawing outcome that should definitely be striven for, as a loose and confident, as a natural and non artificial drawing style is for me and in my humble opinion something first and foremost, is totally essential and required.


Therefore, five solid for Kimon Nicolaides The Natural Way to Draw, although I do have one minor little annoyance and namely that in my humble opinion, there should also be spiral bound editions of The Natural Way to Draw available, since it sure would be much more user friendly, could I make easy practical use of The Natural Way to Draw whilst at the same time drawing or painting nude models and not have my book constantly be in danger of snapping close.
However and sadly, I do not think that spiral bound copies of The Natural Way to Draw even exist, a rather annoying oversight which I do hope is meant to be remedied in the not so far future.
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