My son really enjoys drawing but he is not that keen on me teaching him how to draw so I have actually mostly left him to do some drawing videos online and given him a few tips and suggestions. But about a month ago I suggested that he starts working through this book – How to Draw in 30 Days – which he did and I have to admit that both my son and I have been impressed with the progress he has made in his drawings.

I liked this book because it breaks down drawing into small easy to practice tasks, so my son could just do one task a day and it would just take him a few minutes. This meant he was not getting bored or frustrated and it meant he stuck with it (if the tasks had been too long and time consuming to do I am not sure if he would have stuck with and completed all of them as quickly as he did).

The book does start with some very basic steps like how to draw and shade in spheres and cubes (which although they are basics are the building blocks that you need for more complex drawings), but it does build on these basics and the kids are soon using the basic concepts in more challenging ideas.

Okay each drawing activity is broken down into steps. They explain the steps and illustrate what you should be drawing for each step.

And as you progress through the book so the drawing activities do become more challenging and more interesting. But I must say that I never felt like they included a drawing activity too early or that they included something for which they had not already explained the basics. So in other words the way that the drawing activities progress makes sense as long as you do each activity in order (this is not one of those books where you should jump around, here you really do need to stick to the order and do each and every activity so that you can progress).

Both my son and I have been impressed with this book. We like the way the break the drawings down into the easy steps and we like they way it builds on the basics and gets more and more challenging as you progress. This has been a very worthwhile drawing book and it has definitely helped my son cement some basic drawing knowledge. We highly recommend this book.

You can buy this book directly from Amazon – How To Draw in 30 Days.

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