Drawing can be as simple as picking up a pencil and paper. But there are countless tricks and techniques that can exponentially multiply the creative potential. Digital collage, combined layers, contrasting finishes, overlapping lines, playing with scale, cut paper...

Helen Birch has compiled more than 80 drawing techniques in this book, exposing them through brilliant illustrations by some of the most important artists of the moment. A magnificent graphic compendium that works not only as a practical guide to understand and play with the basics of drawing - line, colour, tonality, etc. - but also as a challenging stimulus to discover its rhetorical and communicative possibilities.

Publisher: Gustavo Gili