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Sketching is Easy
A simplified yet thorough book of instruction covering the whole field of figure drawing. With the aid of this book anyone can draw men, women and children.
The instruction is almost entirely by means of pictures, step-by-step illustrations, layouts and diagrams, and each element of the subject is covered in detail: Anatomy, Action, Hands, Legs, Emotion, Eyes, Torso, Layout, Drawing from Models, etc.
The Model Section, prepared by Berenice Abbott, is a comprehensive gallery of photographs, showing a great variety of poses of both male and female figures, and the various features of the human body, together with analysis drawings.
Mr. Zaidenberg is the author of “Anyone Can Paint,” “Anyone Can Draw,” and other best-seller books of art instruction.
The instruction is almost entirely by means of pictures, step-by-step illustrations, layouts and diagrams, and each element of the subject is covered in detail: Anatomy, Action, Hands, Legs, Emotion, Eyes, Torso, Layout, Drawing from Models, etc.
The Model Section, prepared by Berenice Abbott, is a comprehensive gallery of photographs, showing a great variety of poses of both male and female figures, and the various features of the human body, together with analysis drawings.
Mr. Zaidenberg is the author of “Anyone Can Paint,” “Anyone Can Draw,” and other best-seller books of art instruction.
- GenresArt
255 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1947
About the author
Arthur Zaidenberg
116 books4 followers"In the past three years, I have travelled completely around the world three times, sketching and painting," writes artist Arthur Zaidenberg. Before that, My wife and I would spend each winter in some foreign country - Brazil, Morocco, Italy, France, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico and Cuba - where we would rent a house and paint."
Creator of the highly successful series of art instruction books for young people, Mr. Zaidenberg received his training at the National Academy and Art Students League in New York and the Beaux Arts in Paris. He also studied in Rome and Munich.
A number of his works are in the permanent collection of both the Metropolitan and Brooklyn museums. Mr. Zaidenberg has also had several one-man shows and many of his murals appear in hotels and public buildings in the United States.
Formerly an instructor at New York University, Mr. Zaidenberg has done the illustrations for a complete works of Shakespeare as well as other classics of literature.
Recent additions to his How-to-Draw series include How to Draw Butterflies, Bees and Beetles and How to Draw Landscapes, Sea-scapes and Cityscapes.
Creator of the highly successful series of art instruction books for young people, Mr. Zaidenberg received his training at the National Academy and Art Students League in New York and the Beaux Arts in Paris. He also studied in Rome and Munich.
A number of his works are in the permanent collection of both the Metropolitan and Brooklyn museums. Mr. Zaidenberg has also had several one-man shows and many of his murals appear in hotels and public buildings in the United States.
Formerly an instructor at New York University, Mr. Zaidenberg has done the illustrations for a complete works of Shakespeare as well as other classics of literature.
Recent additions to his How-to-Draw series include How to Draw Butterflies, Bees and Beetles and How to Draw Landscapes, Sea-scapes and Cityscapes.
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