The best way to learn about art is to make it. Discover the secrets of great figure drawing as
you sketch along with past and present masters. This working artist's sketchbook guides you
from beginning gestures to delicate rendering. It's your art your tradition your time. Take
your voice and add it to the tradition as if the history of art has saved the best for now.--
Juliette AristidesFigure Drawing Atelier offers a comprehensive contemporary twist to the very
traditional atelier approach to the methods that instruct artists on the techniques they need
to successfully draw and ultimately paint the figure. The book offers art instruction
practical and progressive lessons on drawing the figure and high-quality sketchbook paper in a
beautiful package that includes blank pages for sketching and copying. Artists will then have a
record of their process like with a sketchbook which many artists like to document and save.
In this elegant and inspiring workbook master contemporary artist and author Juliette
Aristides breaks down the figure drawing process into small manageable lessons presents them
progressively introduces time-tested principles and techniques in the atelier tradition that
are easily accessible and shares the language and context necessary to understand the artistic
process and create superior well-crafted drawings. Atelier education is centered on the belief
that working in a studio not sitting in the lecture hall is the best way to learn about art.
Every artist needs to learn to master figure drawing. Ateliers have produced the greatest
artists of all time--and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These
studios a return to classical art training are based on the nineteenth-century model of
teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Students begin by
copying masterworks then gradually progress to painting as their skills develop. Figure
Drawing Atelier is like having an atelier in a book--and the master is Juliette Aristides a
classically trained artist and best-selling art-instruction author with almost rock star
popularity in the contemporary world of representational art. On every page Aristides uses the
works of Old Masters and today's most respected realist artists to demonstrate and teach the
principles of realistic figure drawing and painting taking students step by step through the
learning curve yet allowing them to work at their own pace. Unique and inspiring this book
offers a serious art course for serious art students and beginners alike.
