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The Ultimate Guide on How to Draw Realistic Things in 3D

Step-by-Step Pencil Lessons in Shading, Texture, and Depth

by Luara Rios

Pencil lessons that turn flat sketches into drawings with depth: light, shadow and texture, explained step by step.

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  • FormatPaperback
  • Pages132
  • Size8.5 × 11 in
Book details
ISBN (paperback)
9791255536383
Pages
132
Size
8.5 × 11 in (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
Language
English
Author
Luara Rios
Publisher
Special Art Books

Distributed to the trade by Ingram: bookstores can order it with the ISBN.

ISBN 9791255536383

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Inside the book

Inside How to Draw Realistic Things

For beginners who want to learn, one lesson at a time.

Four skills in pencil: value and shading control with a sphere, form, edges and depth with a cube and a mug, surfaces and textures with a can, a street and a brick wall, faces, figures and animals with a portrait and an owl.

All the skills for lifelike pencil art

Value and shading, form, edges and depth, surfaces and textures, faces, figures and animals.

Step-by-step made easy: the book open at How to Draw a Horse, How to Draw a Coffee Mug and How to Draw a Face with a Beard. Boost skills and confidence, build realistic shading techniques, create beautiful art.
From first lines to finished drawings

Step by step, made easy

Clear lessons and real examples guide you from the first lines to finished drawings: a horse, a coffee mug, a face with a beard.

The book open at pages 28 and 29: shading a leather boot, steps 3 to 5, and How to Draw a Flower, steps 1 and 2.
Shading, texture and depth, step by step

Shading, texture, depth

A leather boot in five steps, from first hatching to soft highlights, then a rose from its first circle: pencil lessons for lifelike drawings.

Gift the joy of drawing realistic things: the book by Luara Rios with a red ribbon, a camera, a feather and a sea turtle drawn in pencil.
A unique gift that inspires creativity

The joy of drawing realistic things

A thoughtful present for beginners and growing artists who love to draw.

From flat to real

  • Realism, one step at a time

    A clear skill ladder: pencil control, values and shading first, then objects, animals, faces and perspective.

  • Understand why it works

    Calm explanations show why each mark works, not just how to copy the final image.

  • Fur, glass, stone, skin

    Real textures, animals from cats to sea turtles, portraits and eye-catching 3D illusions.

  • Just a few pencils

    A few pencils, paper, an eraser and a blending tool are all you need to start.

A thoughtful gift for birthdays and Christmas, for teens and adults who love to draw.

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