Have you ever tried to look at something and draw it? Does it look like the thing you were looking at?

Or does it feel wonky and childish?

Most people stop drawing as children when they reach this first hurdle. Before then, they were happy drawing those little symbols for eyes, trees, birds—remember? It felt like you could draw anything!

But as soon as you tried to look at things and draw them, nothing seemed right. What a blow to your confidence!

Maybe you’ve been painting in watercolors or oils for years, and sometimes it’ll be great, but more often than not, it’s just not right.

You feel like you’re hiding a shameful secret: you can’t draw very well from observation.

I know an artist who struggled for 15 years, banging away in frustration. He knew he should learn and practice the “fundamentals”—whatever they were! But that’s not the fun part.

The fun part is diving in, pushing the paint around, “expressing creativity.” But it’s not much fun when it looks like shit.

He finally took a step back and focused on the drawing fundamentals. And in a very short time his paintings were completely transformed.

He could now paint with the confidence he always wanted. And was mad at himself for putting it off for so long.

Where would he be if he'd learned the fundamentals 15 years ago?!

How to Draw What You See will give you that grasp of the fundamentals in a very short time.

It’s a 46-page PDF ebook with step-by-step exercises, showing you how to see objects more clearly, and draw from observation—with confidence—anything you see.

"[Lauren] spares no expense in providing detail at every step in learning the skill of drawing from observation. He emphasizes a focus on the fundamentals, the building blocks that are required to become skilled at drawing.

"There are great artists and there are excellent writers, but it is a gift when you can find both in one book. Not only does Lauren bring his years of illustrating and graphic design experience to the table in this work, but he manages to communicate these fundamentals concisely without making it feel like you missed something between step five and step six that you really needed to understand before you got to step nine." — Jay B.