Professional Drawing/Sketching Books?

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Since I'm a pretty well artist (I have a DeviantART but it isn't developed yet), I think I can push my abilities to draw practically anything, even humans! I think reading some books specializing in advanced drawing/sketching teachings is a great way to start this journey. Unfortunately I don't know any.. So if there's any artists in this community, can you please suggest a couple of books? Nothing too easy nor too hard to understand, nothing too expensive, nothing too long nor short. I don't mind if the book uses "big words." :)


I'm also splitting to manga art as well, so a few books on those is welcome 👍
 
I heard this book is good. It's around $10.
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I wish I can draw people. I only draw car and some other stuff. I recently got back in to drawing since my wrist injury here's my DA profile. Drawings are not good since my wrist is a little stiff, but they work.

http://wyvern89.deviantart.com/
 
I read a bit more on the book and looks like it deals how to be creative and be artistic properly and how to use it effectively. But it looks like a great start to give me confidence to reach a higher standard of drawing/sketching. It's also a top book under Drawing in Amazon, so what the hey?


Thanks! :)


And nice DevianART, Wyvern! The models look very nice for an injured wrist! 👍
 
What are you looking to practice up on? Life drawing? Technical/Perspective? There's ALL sorts of drawing books, but there isn't a good drawing book that will teach you everything.
 
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What are you looking to practice up on? Life drawing? Technical/Perspective? There's ALL sorts of drawing books, but there isn't a good drawing book that will teach you everything.
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I would like to practice a bit on Life Drawing. Technical/Perspective I'll get to later on. If it helps I'm inching a bit more towards manga-style drawing.
 
manga style drawing is done on regular bond paper, nothing fancy with texture. Some just stick with pencil, some will ink the light pencil work, some with watercolour, but as an illustrator, anything goes... create your own style, use what mediums you like.

Life drawing I feel is best done with paper that has a slight to rough texture, with conte or charcoal. IMO, the smoothest you can go is bristol board. Remember that with conte or charcoal, you're scraping the material onto the paper, so the rougher it is, the easier it is to get colour onto the surface. Have you used graphite pencils or cruddy pencil crayons on printing paper and when you colour to a certain point, you don't get any more pigment onto the paper and all you get is a polished surface? That means you've jammed all the pores in the paper with pigment and it can't contain anymore. That's the sort problem you will encounter with smooth paper like that.
 

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