{"id":38718,"date":"2021-05-05T05:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=38718"},"modified":"2024-09-09T12:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T17:55:19","slug":"4-good-books-that-will-help-you-make-faster-smarter-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/38718\/4-good-books-that-will-help-you-make-faster-smarter-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Good Books That Will Help You Make Faster Smarter Drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to up your drawing game? Want to just get some game – fast? Check out these books. These books are first and foremost about making drawings to find, refine, and record ideas; they\u2019re about making useful drawings, not drawings that are meant to look good.<\/p>\n

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Rapid Viz – Kurt Hands<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This book shows you how to draw quickly and effectively, as well as many different uses for drawing.<\/p>\n

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Drawing Ideas – Mark Baskinger + Willam Bardel<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This book is much more than you need, but it\u2019s still useful because it offers a number of reasons why to draw and how to draw based on those reasons.<\/p>\n

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Setting Up Your Shots – Jose Cruz<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t officially a drawing book (and the drawings in them are \u2026 eh) but it offers a great clear survey of the different camera moves filmmakers use to tell stories. This knowledge will help you vary the way you compose your drawings for effect and with purpose. Think storyboards.<\/p>\n

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Visual Grammar – Christian Leborg<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This composition book uses nothing more than simple shapes and lines to demonstrate the fundamentals of composition, which you can use to understand the dynamics of any image, generate new ideas, and make many variations on them.<\/p>\n

Enjoy drawing!<\/p>\n

Learn more in my photography and creativity workshops.<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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