For Love of Drawing teaches the classic tradition of drawing as design. Look through the text to get the feel and the immediacy of the directives, which are spoken to individual students as they draw. Notice the repetition, with variation, of the instruction, which signals real training happening. This book puts you in contact with that training. Drawing as design aims at unity from the start, as opposed to the more commonly taught approach of "rendering" (rendering: copying bit by bit by bit; focus serially on one detail, then another, then another). If you have learned drawing as rendering,...