48 illustrated things to draw

A drawing reference is only useful if it tells you something the picture alone cannot. Every page in this library names the shape to block in first, the order the forms stack in, the mistake that usually spoils the subject, and a question you can ask of your own drawing when you think you are finished.

The set is deliberately small. Forty-eight subjects, each with an illustration made for this library rather than pulled from an image search, and each checked against the notes written beside it. If a subject has no usable illustration it stays out of this list rather than getting a placeholder.

If you want breadth instead of pictures, the written idea lists cover several hundred more subjects with the same starting instruction attached to each one.