100 Creative Drawing Ideas

Another instructor at my university loaned me his copy, and before I totally dog-eared it, it seemed only right to return his and buy my own. While this is NOT an "everything you need to know about drawing" book, it IS a great resource of (mostly) university level drawing assignments from various instructors. Of course not every assignment/idea is workable for all classrooms, but there are certainly enough good ideas to make this a worthwhile support for one's library. Many of these would be excellent for high school level classes, which would certainly raise the level of instruction at a critical developmental point in student's seeing and drawing skills.The biggest frustration in teaching a beginning drawing course at universtiy, is "fresh-out-of-highschool" students who have no clue about the rigorous study needed to develop competent drawing skills. The assignments outlined in the text are intriguing and challenging enough to engage these new students and get them over the frustration stage of this foundational art skill. The one drawback I've found is the singularity of some of the ideas, a lack of knowing what came before or followed after, so a consideration of how the selected assignments fit into particular curricular goals is necessary.

The book covers various drawing ideas that other teachers have used in their classes. Although it is a compilation book, it does give added ideas to the starving art educator who needs ideas for classes. The only gripe I would have is that I was hoping that I could use it for some of my middle school students. It is really geared towards the upper grades levels and college drawing classes. I am hoping that I will be able to adapt some of the ideas for my gifted and talented art students.

As an art teacher, I was very happy with the ideas and instructions in this "how to teach" book. Although the illustrations and reproductions are only black and white, and of a rather poor quality, the concepts and discussions are very useable and come from actual art teachers.

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There's a lot more reading about the history and techique of how things are drawn and where there origins rather than a creative list of different ideas for things to draw. too textbookie for my taste.

I ordered this book as a "homework project" book for a drawing club I belong to. This way, even if members don't make it to each session, we can keep up with the assigned drawing of the month together. I will say that if it weren't for that specific purpose, I would not have purchased this book.

This drawing book gives the teacher and student a lot of cool ideas for different drawing techniques. Well worth having in your art library

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Most useful and the best drawing project ideas book I've found to date. Take its ideas for class projects or better still adapt or use them as inspiration for one's own ideas, probably the best way to get the most out of this book. Many projects are more suited to art college students with large permanent studios available rather than say, Lifelong Learning classes but the ideas and suggestions found in this book should help all with an open mind who love to draw. My only critisism is the poor reproduction of examples of work but this may be due to art teachers submitting poorly photographed drawings that may have been softly drawn anyway. Had the printing house boosted contrast then detail might have been sacrificed. But the value of the book is its ideas and less so its illustrations. Is there a second book - Another 100 Creative Drawing Ideas?

Very pedestrian, dull and uninspiring!

Great

Some challenging projects here for A level and above.