Alright im so fucking for real this time. Im going to learn to draw or I will hang myself.

Which book is the best to learn to draw as a beginnner? (Yes I also own all of these. I thought collecting them would make me learn)

>How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way – Stan Lee and John Buscema

>Keys to Drawing – Bert Dodson

>Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life – George B. Bridgman

>Figure Drawing: Design and Invention – Michael Hampton

>The Art and Science of Drawing – Brent Eviston

>Figure Drawing for Artists – Steve Huston

>Morpho: Anatomy for Artists – Michel Lauricella

>Morpho: Simplified Forms – Michel Lauricella

>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards

>How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination – Scott Robertson with Thomas Bertling

>Figure Drawing for All It's Worth – Andrew Loomis

>Fun With a Pencil – Andrew Loomis

>>7613563 (OP)
>Yes I also own all of these.
Lying is a sin. Repent.

>>7613563 (OP)

>>7613564
I'm not even joking. I just assumed one of them would click and i'd get to it. In the end, I just have a stack of books I never use.

>>7613563 (OP)
What do you want to draw?

>>7613573
People and faces. I guess a bit of everything in the end.

>>7613570
Please pyw and pybooks.
I want to make a meme to warn the future generations.

>How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way – Stan Lee and John Buscema
Fine, a bit hard for a complete beginner because it's mostly figure drawing.

>Keys to Drawing – Bert Dodson
Has good exercises. Suitable for a beginner.

>Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life – George B. Bridgman
Too hard for a beginner, anatomy focused figure drawings. The drawings are quite loose, you'll need to be decent to get much out of Bridgman.

>Figure Drawing: Design and Invention – Michael Hampton
Again, too hard for beginners. In this book he says himself you need to be able to draw 3D forms well to get much out of it.

>The Art and Science of Drawing – Brent Eviston
Retard proof, if this doesn't help you, nothing will.

>Figure Drawing for Artists – Steve Huston
Quite good, still a bit too hard for a beginner. Plus he has a video course too.

>Morpho
These are more like reference books, not art instructional books. You'll need to know how to study so that you can teach yourself with them.

>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards
Good exercises, but filled with her nonsense ramblings, just use the workbook. Requires some equipment to do it properly.

>How to Draw – Scott Robertson with Thomas Bertling
Way too hard for a beginner, and won't suit most peoples personalities since it's analytical and technical.

>Figure Drawing for All It's Worth – Andrew Loomis
Too hard for beginners but not bad. Since he uses 40s idealizations, it's a bit dated. Most people would be better off using modern figure drawing books. To be fair, they only exist because of Loomis.

>Fun With a Pencil – Andrew Loomis
A good introduction to construction but quite difficult for a complete beginner, the 3d forms you need to draw are actually very hard for a complete beginner to do. Skip the perspective stuff at the end, other books cover it better.

>>7613588
So in conclusion, I'd say Keys to Drawing, The Art and Science of Drawing and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain are the most suitable for a beginner.
Until you actually study from it, you won't know which one will personally suit you better so try doing the first chapter of each and see which you prefer, then finish that book.
You might like video courses better, Proko's Drawing Basics would be a good start.

>>7613575
You should be as specific as possible, medium, subject matter, style/genre etc. Having a very clear goal to work towards would help a lot.

>>7613563 (OP)
Personally, I think a cartoon drawing book is better to start with, then going into a book on realistic human forms. So I think Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation is the best starting point.

Honestly, I think it's kind of a difficult thing to suggest, because not only should it be targeted somewhat to your area of interest (for example, if you have no interest in realistic figure drawing, loomis/bridgman/hampton won't do much for you), but there's also specific drawing methods that just do not gel well with some individuals.
We often hear some people here complaining about the idea of 'construction' in drawing, because they are unable to conceptualise that it may be useful for others - me being one of them. Likewise, trying to force such drawing methods onto them would be nothing but detrimental, and possibly create bad drawing habits.

What I'm getting at is that you need to be critical of the drawing methods you're learning - are the clicking with you? Are you improving with them? Really look at your work from that book, and drop it if it's not working out.

>>7613563 (OP)
>(Yes I also own all of these. I thought collecting them would make me learn)
No, it fucking won't. Hoarding learning material will only overwhelm you and it won't do anything for you unless you actually get to fucking draw, retard, and this board has an insane hoarding problem.
>How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
You don't need this right now, you probably can't even draw a cube.
>Keys to drawing and Loomis
They all are worthless outdated books that only art boomers like Proko or Marshall Vandruff love recommending all the time because that's what they used when they were kids, but there are infinitely better sources nowadays (that you won't need just yet, because again, you probably can't even draw a cube)
>Hampton and Bridgman books
They're complicated books even for people who have had good experience with anatomy for a long time. FORCE or Vilppu are much better for beginners.

Start with drawing on the right side of the brain alongside Dynamic Sketching by Peter Han (it's on Youtube), Light for Visual Artists. That's everything you will need for 3 months.

>>7613890
pyw

>>7613588
What book you'd recommend for studying 3d forms nta

>>7613890
>Start with drawing on the right side of the brain
Why that one in particular anon? Although I've read good things abo in t it here, it seems like its reception about her writing is mixed.

>>7614104
>3d forms
Dafuq.
>>7614515
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.

>>7614515
NTA
Her theory is BS but the exercises are solid + bunch of pro artists rec her book.

>>7614546
>bunch of pro artists rec her book.
Name 5.

>>7614515
I'd tell you exactly why, but I fear it will make you too self-aware while reading it, so here's the thing: it's a third eye openener. The book's technically pseudoscience, but it contributed to helping in the study of the brain back in the infancy of neuroscience. The book does help, and it's been proven by hundreds of people assisting her workshops (look the before and afters on the website) that they can go from drawing a portrait like a preschooler to a pretty decent realistic portrait in literally less than a week, and I can speak from personal experience that it did help me to and 5 friends of mine back when we started reading it.
I don't want to be a moralfag, but if you can, try buying the book. It's written by a kind woman close that's now close to being 100 years old, and she still does heavy workshops and talks about her book despite her age.