Drawing in the Digital Age: An Observational Method for Artists and Animators

by Wei Xu

A solid foundation for improving your drawing skills Teaching a new observational method based on math and computer graphics principles, this book offers an innovative approach that shows you how to use both sides of your brain to make drawing easier and more accurate. Author Wei Xu, PhD, walks you through his method, which consists of scientific theories and principles to deliver real-world techniques that will improve your drawing skills. Xu's pioneering approach offers a solid foundation for both traditional and CG artists. If you are eager to learn how to draw, then this book is a must read.

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 13, 2012

Reviews

[A J · Rating 3 out of 5]

I find it delightfully paradoxical that Wei Xu dismisses the grid method as a crutch that he abandoned to recover his free style drawing skill and introduces a much more complicated grid he names angle-based construction (ABC). If your goal is to draw what you see and a technique helps you achieve that goal, use it. If you’re a math orientated artist, angle-based construction may provide you with just the framework you need to more faithfully do a rendering of 3D objects or parse through a drawing of multiple objects.

[Tani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good points, could have been more concise with the writing.