The Realism Challenge: Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master of Hyperrealism Kindle Edition

The media could not be loaded. After creating a few viral videos on realism drawings, Mark Crilley has finally come up with a book that shows you just how he draws those amazing realistic artworks.The Realism Challenge goes behind the scenes with several tutorials that teaches the skills and techniques required to bring realism to your drawings.Through the step by step demonstrations, you'll learn how to observe your subjects, put down the lines to form the shape, and proceed on to colour and adding shadows. The instructions are very clear and are always prompting you what to look out for. For it's all those little details that create the realism.One thing about realistic drawings is they take time. Even drawing something like a piece of paper, cracked egg or a handful of pieces of popcorn takes a good involvement of time. Techniques are important but observational skills are almost as important or even more so. I've tried several of the exercises and realised that I was going too fast. One really has to slow down to observe all the subtle changes in colours and shades in your subject.This book certainly demands patience. There are thirty lessons in the book and that's a lot of opportunity to get your practice. The payoff is a beautiful piece of artwork.Ultimately, it's quite fun to challenge yourself to complete the drawings. Through the book, you'll also learn to create textures like those on a piece of toast, metallic surface, transparent bottles, food, etc.The only downside is the source photos could have been printed much bigger, perhaps one page so that people can see the subjects bigger. For example, it's not easy to make out the details of small seashells in one of the lessons.Highly recommend to all who loves to draw.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

Do you want to really learn how to draw the reality you see? Are you going to actually go through with the exercises? If you want a good book to get you started as a lifelong Realist then this book is wonderful as each project builds. If you're curious and want to try it out then do it! You'll not learn to do basic drawing, perspective, or go over how to use certain supplies so I don't recommend it for an absolute beginner.That being said, if you're curious about this then you can just by the bare essentials using his supplies list then go to town on these projects. You aren't spending a fortune on supplies and you'll be proud of each project as you complete it. I'm working on projects and make sure you give yourself deadlines if you want to do this for a living. Give yourself time but don't take six months for one drawing.Mark's book is a nice step by step book and if you have the ambition to do this then this makes a great introduction into Realism. See if you have the patience for this go through each project from the beginning. I've had a lot of fun with this book and still use the techniques I've learned. If you still aren't sure check out his YouTube videos to see what you can learn to do.

This is my 4th Review today concerning Art Books I've been acquiring throughout the week. My apologies that there are no pictures, but I'm sure someone will take the helm and snap a few in the near future.Mark Crikey is a very talented Artist. At one point I was Subscribed to his YouTube Channel but didn't have the patience or time to follow along. Recently I've been watching Hyperrealism Drawings and it is the most complex, beautiful thing I've ever seen. To achieve that task takes patience, practice and skill.I will admit I am no where near being ready to try, but I was looking for a professional book as part of my arsenal. When I saw Crilley's name I knew I had to get this book. He is the only one that seems to have attempted this technique because I have not found/seen any other books on Hyperrealism.So if you're the opposite of me, and or fall into the same category of wanting to try this Amazing Technique I say get this Book. Quickly, before it's sold out 🙂

So this guy has you tube videos that go over lots of these challenges. However the book allows for you to go step by step with him as he creates amazingly real drawings. There are pictures for each step and very clear descriptions on what you are trying to achieve to get to the final product. It is very different from most drawing books where they have you draw basic 3D shapes over and over again with different shading, then they convert those shapes into an anatomic masterpiece and you look at the picture sigh in defeat and put the book on the shelf with several others. In this book he starts with a simple bent piece of paper and works up to more complicated objects focusing on how light falls and where shadows are. The pictures for each step make it easy to see if you are understanding the concepts. I am hoping this different approach will help me achieve something closer to realism.

I've been watching Mark Crilley's YouTube videos for a long time. I've been learning from them. My art has improved because of them. When this book came out I bought it to support the artist. I appreciate his work and wish to encourage him.If when you think of Mark Crilley you think of Manga, this book will blow you away. It is written in a casual friendly style that is Crilley's trademark. The author takes you, step by step, through the drawing process. It doesn't make the drawings easy but it makes them less difficult.The book begins by listing simple art supplies. The first drawing is a torn sheet of paper. It proceeds through more complex drawings to items like candy bars. The book teaches how to add a 3-D look to drawings using light shading on items such as glasses and tools and flowers. It uses graphite (I sometimes substituted charcoal). colored pencil and water color (I substituted watercolor pencil).I don't feel my work has reached Crilley's level of artistry but it has improved through the use of this book.

Sehr anschaulich step by step erklärt an einzelnen Stadien des Zeichnens. Richtig klasse auch für Anfänger und das trotzdem es in englisch ist. Jeder Schritt ist im Bild und Wort dargestellt. Richtig tolles Buch, das Lust am Zeichnen macht.

No esta mal, pero espera algo diferente. Sigue siendo bueno.

J'ai beaucoup de livres sur le dessin au crayon, au crayon de couleur, à l'aquarelle et celui-ci me ravit :- il n'est pas élitiste : les exercices n'ont besoin que d'un minium de crayons de couleur ou d'aquarelles. J'ai des livres où les exercices ne nécessitent pas moins de 3 marques différentes de crayons ou d'aquarelles haut de gamme et c'est un vrai casse-tête pour trouver l'équivalent chez soi- il est progressif : on commence par dessiner un petit bout de papier pour aller ensuite sur des formes de plus en plus complexes On débute par le crayon graphite puis par des touches de couleurs de plus en plus importantes. L'auteur sait bien que parfois on veut mettre en couleur un dessin et cela ruine tout :(- il est beau : le papier glacé est très agréable et augmente la qualité de l'impression, la maquette est claire et aérée- les étapes sont bien détaillées et l'auteur explique à côté comment et surtout pourquoi il applique tel ou tel ton- les exercices sont très sympas : pop corn, barre chocolatée.. l'auteur vous invite même à les manger à la fin du dessin pour vous récompenser :)- il est ouvert, l'auteur ne prétend pas que son approche est la meilleure et vous invite à procéder d'une autre façon si cela vous convient mieux,- le ton employé par l'auteur est sympathique et motivantComme d'habitude j'aurais aimé que les photos de référence soient plus grandes pour bien percevoir tous les détails des objets complexes mais vu que j'ai fait 3 exercices depuis hier et que je vois le progrès, je n'enleverai aucune étoile.Bien sûr on n'arrive pas du premier coup à la maîtrise des réalisations présentées, mais le livre donne envie de s'accrocher et sera sans aucun doute source de grands progrès !

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