The Pencil Playbook: 44 Exercises for Mesmerizing, Marking, and Making Magical Art with Your Pencil

by Ana Montiel

"For Coloring Book Graduates!" Sketch and paint right on the pages of this fun, modern, approachable practice and inspiration book focusing on one of the most popular drawing tools - pencils of all kinds. This playful, colorful exercise book is filled with fun, contemporary, beautiful illustrations by leading illustrator Ana Montiel. Pencils of all types, including colored pencils, charcoal pencils, are explored as artistic tools. The exercises explore mark making, patterns, geometrics, simple drawings, texture, and composition and includes professional tips and tricks that will enhance your skills as you work through the book. Each spread has one page filled with art examples and an exercise, with room to draw and create right in the book. The Pencil Playbook is printed on high-quality, uncoated paper, allowing you to paint or draw anywhere that inspiration strikes. Explore abstract drawing, pattern drawing, meditative doodling and more with this all-in-one learning and practice book. This is a great volume for artists, designers, doodlers, illustrators, painters, pattern illustrators, and zentanglers of all ages. You will not want to miss it!

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, Drawing

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2015

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are a lot fun projects presented in this book and many of them use colored pencils. As a novice many of them are beyond my current skill level or use mediums I have no interest in at this time, but maybe I will revisit this title someday for some inspiration.

[Elisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun set of exercises.