30-Minute Drawing for Beginners

Build basic drawing skills with easy thirty-minute lessons.

Anyone can learn to draw! thirty-Minute Drawing for Beginners is the perfect place to get started, with easy lessons that you can do in half an hour or less. Even if you have no drawing experience, you’ll go your skills and confidence over the course of this book with short, simple exercises that break down the basics of sketching, shading, composition, perspective, and more.

A step-by-step approach—Clear, illustrated instructions let you see your progress as you start with sketching simple forms like a cube, then move into drawing a landscape or a self-portrait.

Simple materials—You’ll only need basic, affordable art supplies like pencils, paper, erasers, a ruler, and thirty minutes set aside for drawing.

Essential art concepts—Each chapter explains a key element of drawing, like line, shape, texture, and form, and include activities to apply what you learned, for a good balance of theory and practice.