Keys to Drawing

Keys to Drawing Review

I've got a fair pile of art books stashed around my home, and Bert Dodson's "Keys to Drawing" jumped to the top of the pile almost instantly once I'd opened the Amazon shipping box and I'd had chance to flip through a few pages.

Dodson doesn't bog you down with learning how to hold a pencil or asking you to draw lines and circles you are later told to erase. He has respect for his readers, and it shows.

It also bounces right back to him; Dodson has the amazing ability to make what looks impossibly difficult, possible. Right at the beginning, you start drawing SOMETHING, and that approach continues throughout the book. He shows you the importance of line and shading by asking you to draw what initially seemed to me to be way beyond my capabilities -- but once I simply followed his instructions [I expect he'd call them "suggestions"}, I suddenly discovered that I'd drawn something that has line and shading and the beginning of a personal style. That,in turn,creates in his readers instant feelings of capability in an area where you may earlier have fallen flat on your face. [Yes, I know that's an awkward sentence, but you get the idea.]

I started tinkering with the book last week [Tuesday, 6/2/10 to be precise] and by Friday Dodson had me emulating Van Gogh -- and I was 1) doing a very decent job of it, and 2) I realized that in just DAYS he'd taught me to do things that had flummoxed me for years.

The only area where I continue to be flummoxed is his system of determining perspective. I doubt that this is a difficulty he created in the way he suggests one determine perspective; I think that in this particular area we simply think in different ways. Which, in the end, turns out to be a good thing, because I realize that already, he's taught me to do things I never thought I'd be able to do in pencil or in any other medium.

I've also picked up his newer book, "Drawing with Imagination", which is utterly wonderful, and once again, Dodson knows how to push all the right buttons to get you thinking about ordinary things in very UN-ordinary ways. I really wish I could just leap instantly into that book, but I wanted to see what he'd published earlier to get a better "feel" for the way the man teaches, so I purchased "Keys to Drawing," and it's been a revelation. I'll finish "Keys" before I move into "Imagination," and not be unhappy about it, because I already know this man is GOOD.

To be precise, I think the man's a genius, and were I male I'd tip my hat to him. I really can't say enough good things about this book, and what I'll say to others will be simply: "Buy this book."

Once you do, you'll discover that you've launched yourself out into a marvelous adventure.

Because Dodson has chosen to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Keys to Drawing Feature

• ISBN13: 9780891343370
• Condition: New
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Keys to Drawing Overview

“Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw with some degree of proficiency,” Bert Dodson proclaims.

In this book he shares a complete drawing system that you can use for any subject or type of drawing-even if you doubt your ability to draw. It’s based on fifty-five “keys to drawing,” which are introduced at a comfortable pace. The keys are interspersed with dozens of practice exercises that help you learn by doing.

You’ll learn how to:

• Restate, focus, map and intensify.
• Free your hand action, and then learn to control it.
• Convey the illusions of light, depth and texture.
• Stimulate your imagination through “creative play”

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