Buy this book if you are a professional trying to fine-tune your craft and buy it if you are a beginner serious about drawing, both will discover the benefits of applying to your work all the essential scenery-drawing techniques that it contains. In only two months my work has improved 100% and my drawings have won praise from friends and family. I used this book as one would use a textbook on a course, doing all the exercises and going back to all the lessons in each section after I had finished with it. It's so well written that you'll soon start seeing the illustrations in the colors your imagination and creativeness will give them. Some people might be discouraged from purchasing this title due to it being completely illustrated in black & white, but trust me when I say that it doesn't need color images. This book is also fully illustrated with over 900 beautiful diagrams and pictures that work as invaluable examples, which accurately illustrate the instructions given by the author. Additional bonuses are the authors' constant tips on a wide variety of topics that go from shading and highlighting to artistic treatment and texturing of surfaces. It also goes beyond most scenery drawing books in the market to include, beside the usual landscape and terrain composition techniques, other important concepts: Drawing Trees and Foliage, Drawing Rocks and Mountains, Drawing Clouds and Skies, Drawing Water (Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Falls), and Drawing Buildings (in various shapes and sizes). In its first section alone (Introduction to the Basics of Scenery Drawing) it includes very well explained drawing basics like composition, space division, picture elements, comprehension factors, materials and more. It's clearly written, which makes its instructions very easy to follow and understand, and it's masterfully organized in six sections that clearly relate to one another, making it easy to go back to specific topics at any time. This book is hands-down my favorite step-by-step tool on drawing scenery. Check out the other two and consider his cartooning book as well if you have any interest in cartooning.
This is why these classics are still in print. These books are the kind that will wear out from constant use and need replacing if you're at all fond of drawing, because there's always something new and interesting to find for any future artwork.
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Even after they're read, they are great permanent references with examples of trees, waves, houses, styles of clouds - the cloud chart pages are great - so if I'm doing a drawing I can flip to the right section and get ideas for how to handle the sky or what I can do to make the gnarled tree look like endurance. All of these books have one quality in common. I'd recommend this without reservation, order all three of them if you don't have them. Most of all he shows how to create drama within a scene, no matter what the subject is it can be rendered a little bolder than life, it can convey emotion and tell a story. He has specific examples and details of everything I'd need to use in a scene, from clouds and waves to rocks and trees and houses.
I'm a writer who has spent a lifetime trying to learn self-illustration and his explanations have successfully broken some mental barriers like overdetailing, lack of focus, bad composition, inconsistent lighting. He distinguishes realism from artistic exaggeration and explains effectively why you can't just rely on a photo or even on what you see to create a good believable picture. He describes as many different ways to do things as they are and constantly encourages imagination, originality and personal style. He doesn't claim his methods or compositions or styles are the best. Step by step projects and long personal essays on technique and feeling aren't what Jack Hamm is about, although his style is engaging he doesn't seem to have the ego that many art instruction writers do. His books are the peak of the example-heavy content-rich concise style of art instruction.
Jack Hamm's style is engaging but it's very content-dense. I felt like I was back in college, and progressed through it one page at a time doing sketches on index cards with a soft pencil to test the ideas and theories he put forward - and unlike many other art books I've read or classes I've taken, concepts like composition, balance, light and perspective made sense to me after studying this book. Prepare to spend some time reading and studying it. This is the most difficult of those three volumes. Drawing well is the basis for every other art form especially in illustration. Jack Hamm's three books "Drawing the Head and Figure," "How to Draw Animals," and this volume together form what I consider a complete course in commercial illustration but for color theory, which you can find in many other art books.
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