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Absolutely gorgeous, Mark Crilley captures the exact art on here, with totally easy step by step pictures, I had completed a real-life drawing within 10 minutes of reading it, thanks to his format and quick teaching, straight to the point, but still tossed in with fun little tips! Highly recommend.

I like this guy from the beginning, he's upfront and honest and knows what he's talking about and no, my professors never had an answer as to what 'the rules' are either. In my opinion there are no rules. Art is what the artist says it is, but also what the viewer says. It exists on multiple levels

"The Realism Challenge" is a how-to art book on the hyperrealistic style of illustration. The author's step-by-step lessons use Bristol board paper, graphite pencils (usually just for the initial work), colored pencils (for color detail), and watercolor (for larger areas of color). He assumed that y Leggi tutto

Hyperrealism is one of those tricky things with me. Ask me about it on a Tuesday and I might be all, “This is fascinating!” Ask me the next day and I might be all, “Is this just about technique? Is that what we’re celebrating?” But even though I’m often on the fence about it, I feel like deep down w Leggi tutto

Interesting Challenges I was a little skeptical that this book would proffer any advice that others already hadn’t. However, the side-by-side method is useful. Or even just laying your object on a piece of paper the same as you work on to see how the shadows fall. It teaches you - again - to look. Re Leggi tutto

One of the best hyperrealism and colored pencil technique books I've read. It definitely assumes you have an intermediate level of sketching and art ability as well as good quality materials. But for the artist who really wants to try some of the insane realism capabilities of colored pencils, this

Great book! This was a good book for me.. I had become bored with my artwork and needed to focus on my drawing skills. Mark has done a fantastic job at creating really nice artwork out of some Everyday objects. I haven't actually started any of the projects in the book but have read it twice! Now to g Leggi tutto

The book doesn't include any techniques that will be a surprise, but shows them employed by a master of realism alongside photos of the object.