Start with a Teapot : An Unexpected Guide to the Art of Drawing - Enric Lax

Start with a Teapot

An Unexpected Guide to the Art of Drawing

By: Enric Lax

Hardcover | 25 August 2025

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This brilliant and original drawing book flips the tradition of drawing guides, combining puns, stories and useful techniques to encourage imagination and experiments—and above all, no rules and no mistakes.

Drawing is not very different from riding a bicycle, whistling, or cooking a tortilla: learning any of these things just takes a little practice and a sense of humour.

For example, to draw an elephant, you start with a teapot. Next add eyes and tusks, finish with a tail and four legs . . . ta-da, you’ve got your elephant! And how do you draw a horse? First, draw an elephant.

Start with a Teapot: An Unexpected Guide to the Art of Drawing is utmost nonsense and unarguable logic. How do you draw a snail, a stapler, a butterfly, a eukaryotic cell? How do you draw poop? Enric Lax inspires his readers to observe, transform, tell stories, and make mistakes—that’s how to draw.

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