How to Draw What You See

When it was originally published in 1970,How to Draw What You Seezoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill's best-seller listand it has remained there ever since. "I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see themrealistically," wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned to draw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, using de Reyna's methods.How to Draw What You Seeshows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an objectcube, cylinder, cone, or sphereand use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains.

Rudy de Reyna is the author of many Watson-Guptill classics, including
Magic Realist Drawing Techniques.