How to Draw

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> 100 SUBJECTS. 6 STEPS EACH. 600 STEP-BY-STEP DRAWINGS. EVERY WORLD, MACHINE AND INSTRUMENT BUILT THE WAY THE COSMOS BUILDS IT — BLUEPRINT, MASS, STRUCTURE, NAME, TEXTURE, FINISH. > > A bare planet that becomes a world the moment you draw the line where day ends. Rings laid in one flat plane — and their shadow printed on the clouds. A comet with two tails pointing two ways for two reasons. A galaxy wound on a logarithmic spiral. A rocket read as a stack of machines. A telescope taken apart until only its aim remains. > > Drawing books about space usually ask you to copy a photograph. This one teaches you the grammar of the cosmos: every subject is built the same honest way — one fixed blueprint (a centre point, a bounding circle, and one line that never moves — an orbit line, or the ground line for the machines and instruments that stand on Earth), the subject's mass, its structure, then — and only then — the feature that gives it its name (the craters, the bands, the rings, the great storm, the spiral arms, the accretion disc, the solar panels, the dome's slit), its texture, and finish and colour. Nothing moves between steps — the orbit line your ringed giant rides in Step 2 is the exact line it rides in Step 6. > > Inside: 20 planets and moons drawn as forms · 20 small bodies — ice moons, asteroids, twin-tailed comets, Trojan swarms · 20 stars, galaxies and deep-sky forms with honest geometry · 20 spacecraft drawn as engineering, not characters — no real machine is copied, so the fleet you draw is entirely your own · 20 instruments, from telescope tubes and observatory domes to the planetarium projector and the sundial. Every subject is named in English, Japanese and romaji — wakusei, suisei, ginga, enban. > > And after every subject: a practice page. Trace the faint finished drawing, then draw your own version in the empty frame. 100 subjects, 100 practice pages. > > No artwork, character, spacecraft or instrument design from any real work is drawn or copied anywhere in this book — every subject is a generalised form, so the worlds you invent with this system are completely yours. All you need is a pencil and an eraser.