21 Dec '23 14:57>1 edit
What good practical drawing book do you recommend?
For an older beginner from an engineering like professional area. I could do a good realistic sketch of a locomotive from a photo with lots of painstaking effort. That is slow, fatiguing, and feels close to cheating the drawing art (I could do it faster and more precise with explicit measurements). I did some slow 3D models too.
I am mainly interested to draw nature to feel realistic and fairly accurate representation. Biology students must have had some related courses to get the essential skills relatively fast. Even astronomy was done with accurate hand drawings for a long time. Reliable accuracy of around half an hour on a 12 hour clock dial is fine. Proportions should be within 5% too.
For an older beginner from an engineering like professional area. I could do a good realistic sketch of a locomotive from a photo with lots of painstaking effort. That is slow, fatiguing, and feels close to cheating the drawing art (I could do it faster and more precise with explicit measurements). I did some slow 3D models too.
I am mainly interested to draw nature to feel realistic and fairly accurate representation. Biology students must have had some related courses to get the essential skills relatively fast. Even astronomy was done with accurate hand drawings for a long time. Reliable accuracy of around half an hour on a 12 hour clock dial is fine. Proportions should be within 5% too.