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Loading... The Realism Challenge: Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master of Hyperrealismby Mark Crilley
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With just watercolors, colored pencils, and white gouache, artist Mark Crilley takes you step-by-step through his process for producing stunning, hyperrealistic recreations of everyday items. Based on Crilley's mega-popular "Realism Challenge" YouTube videos, The Realism Challenge contains thirty lessons demonstrating how to render mirror-like duplicates in the trompe l'oeil tradition of everything from shells, leaves, and candy bars to your very own still life arrangements. Each lesson builds off the previous one, as you'll master essential artistic techniques like creating drop shadows, adding highlights, and building from light to dark. Learn the secrets of one of hyperrealism's biggest stars. No library descriptions found. |
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The challenges in this book start out very basic and then increase slowly in difficulty. This allows the reader and/or artist to truly grasp his techniques and instructions, in fact he states throughout the book to repeat the challenges, to make sure you’ve really grasped the different techniques before moving on. This is a book that I believe anyone with varying degrees of artistic ability would enjoy. Mark Crilley gives great insight to his process and really makes you feel like you can complete these challenges easily. I also found his section on art supplies to be very helpful and informative. I tend to spend a lot of money when I buy paint, brushes, paper, etc. for my daughter since I don’t know what’s best in terms of brands. It was nice to read about and gain some insight on which supplies are worth investing your money in and which ones aren’t. Highly recommend and I know were already planning on purchasing The Realism Challenge once it’s released, my daughter wants to continue perfecting her new techniques.
**I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the publisher, Ten Speed Press and NetGalley in exchange for my honest review**
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