Books on Drawing, Creativity, and Seeing.
Circle Line Press
An imprint by Tom McPherson, founder of Circle Line Art School
Circle Line Press publishes books that inspire creativity and teach the craft of drawing in a clear and thoughtful way. Each title is designed with simplicity, structure, and a deep appreciation for the creative process.
Published titles:
The Habit of Drawing: Fast and Slow
A guide to building a steady, creative drawing practice. Drawing becomes easier when it becomes a habit. This book is a simple, practical guide to drawing with more confidence, clarity, and attention.
Through short reflections and calm instruction, The Habit of Drawing shows how anyone can make drawing a natural part of everyday life.
It’s written for beginners and returning artists, as well as for anyone who wants to reconnect with seeing the world with fresh eyes.
Future titles:
Negative Space: A Novel
Negative Space follows a solitary museum worker whose meticulous annotations of an obscure poetry sequence gradually become a way of organising memory, meaning, and inner weather.
Through fossils, instruments, and margins that turn into files, the novel explores how attention replaces narrative and completion replaces resolution, ending with a quiet recalibration rather than change.
Perspective Drawing Made Easy: Buildings and Cities - One Point perspective
A practical guide to understanding and using one-point perspective when drawing buildings and city spaces. The book breaks perspective down into clear visual ideas, showing how depth, space, and structure can be built from simple lines and shapes. Rather than relying on formulas, the focus is on seeing, observation, and construction, helping you understand why perspective works and how to apply it with confidence. Designed for beginners and those returning to drawing, it provides a calm, step-by-step foundation for drawing believable interiors, streets, and architectural forms.
The Habit of Seeing: Book One
This book explores seeing as an active, practised way of engaging with the world rather than a passive act of recognition. Through drawing, observation, and reflection, it examines how habit, assumption, and speed shape what we notice, and how slowing down can restore clarity, depth, and attentiveness.
Drawing is treated not as a means to produce images, but as a discipline of attention: a way of testing perception, questioning certainty, and learning to stay with complexity. Moving between everyday observation, architecture, illusion, uncertainty, and making, the book argues that how we see shapes how we think and live.
In the end, it offers drawing as a lifelong practice of seeing clearly, not to master the world, but to remain open, curious, and responsive to it.
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THE HABIT OF DRAWING: New Book
A guide to building a steady, creative drawing practice.
Drawing becomes easier when it becomes a habit. This book is a simple, practical guide to drawing with more confidence, clarity, and attention.
Through short reflections and calm instruction, The Habit of Drawing shows how anyone can make drawing a natural part of everyday life.
It’s written for beginners and returning artists, as well as for anyone who wants to reconnect with seeing the world with fresh eyes.
Why I Wrote This Book
For many years, I believed that drawing required inspiration. But the more I drew, the more I realised the opposite was true. When I draw regularly, even for a few minutes a day, creativity follows.
This book grew out of that experience.
It brings together the ideas I’ve used in my teaching, my own studio practice, and the lessons I’ve learned from drawing fast and slow.
I hope that it becomes a companion, something encouraging to return to whenever you feel stuck, unsure, or simply ready to begin again.
What You’ll Find Inside
Short, reflective sections that help you understand drawing as a mindful practice rather than a technical test.
Clear guidance on developing steady habits, noticing more, and drawing with attention.
Ideas for overcoming creative blocks and finding confidence in your own mark-making.
Gentle reminders: you don’t have to draw perfectly; you only have to begin.
This is a book you can read in small moments. It’s designed to offer support without telling you what to draw.
Order Your Copy
The Habit of Drawing is available to order now as both a book and ebook.
About the Author
I’m Tom McPherson, artist and founder of Circle Line Art School. Over the past decade, I’ve helped millions of viewers learn to draw through my YouTube channel and courses.
My work focuses on clarity, structure, and the discipline of building a drawing habit.
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