Award-winning artist Qu Lei Lei offers an inspirational view of art from the Chinese perspective. Instead of looking at the sketch as an end in itself, he focuses on the work as personal fulfillment for the artist and as a valued meditation. All the essential techniques are here--from choosing and using materials to mixing the ink to mastering brushstrokes. With the natural world as his subject, Lei Lei pulls out key features--water, trees, landscapes--and focuses on practical ways of depicting their different varieties. A master class covers techniques for capturing pets at play, and for conveying the spirit of all living creatures

It is not just a book about drawing. It is a book on how to live. This valuable contribution to the teaching of drawing cannot be considered like most books.On drawing, in this book you find philosophical themes full of opinions, reflections and studies to be able to elevate the soul of the artist in your interior, combined with a series of illustrations of different basic styles for you to try at your own pace.It is one of those works that, due to their originality and inspiration, marks a before and after and constitute an obligatory point of reference.It is a piece that is only in charge of sending you the information of the problems that many artists suffer, all the opposite information to the generic to be able to transcend the subject of drawing, to be able to find your style seeing all the forms in a clear and summarized way. how to make any drawing is real, simple, comic, or dramatic.To be able to make your whole environment come true without the pressure or the typical routine of a stereotypical book that tells you how to make a line, none of that! In this book you have information that will nourish your mind and spirit so that simply with the collected references you can begin to be yourself ...With this book, stop thinking about it, and draw!

Accessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art and poetry, the expression of the Taoist approach to existence. Chung-yuan Chang's always lucid narrative explores the relationship between the Tao and the creative arts, introducing classic paintings and poems to bring Taoism to life.

A celebration of Taoist art traces the influence of philosophy on the visual arts in China.