The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing

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Автор: Lauren Jarrett, Lisa Lenard

Название: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing

Издательство: Alpha Books

Год: 2000

Формат: PDF

Размер: 11.62 Мб

Язык: Английский

Страниц: 383

Книга на английском языке, адресованная людям, желающим научиться рисовать. В издании рассматриваются инструменты и материалы, используемые для создания карандашных зарисовок, принципы наблюдения, позволяющие наиболее точно воспроизвести объекты на бумаге, основные техники рисования карандашом. Все материалы сопровождаются поясняющими иллюстрациями и заданиями для самостоятельных занятий.

You will learn to unlock the artist within you so you too can draw and express yourself!! This book will show you how to use different basic mediums, such as pencils, charcoal, pen and ink. It will also teach you different types of drawing such as line, cartoon, figure, perspective and technical drawing. The book will include using shading, light, dimension, energy and mood techniques. Blank pages are included to serve as practice pages.

Contents:

Part 1. Drawing and Seeing, Seeing and Drawing

1. The Pleasures of Seeing and Drawing

2. Toward Seeing for Drawing

3. Loosen Up

Part 2. Now You Are Ready to Draw

4. The Picture Plane

5. Finding the View

6. Negative Space as a Positive Tool

Part 3. Starting Out: Learning You Can See and Draw

7. A Room of Your Own

8. How To Get Started

9. Step Up to a Still Life: Composition, Composition, Composition

10. Toward the Finish Line

Part 4. Developing Drawing Skills

11. At the Finish Line: Are You Ready for More?

12. The Journal As a Path

13. This Is a Review—There Will Be a Test

14. All Around the House: A Few New Drawings to Try

15. Into the Garden with Pencils, not Shovels

Part 5. Out and About with Your Sketchbook

16. What’s Your Perspective?

17. This Land Is Your Land

18. Made by Man: Out in the Landscape

19. Houses and Other Structures

Part 6. Drawing Animals and People

20. It’s a Jungle Out There—So Draw It!

21. The Human Body and Its Extremities

22. Dress ’Em Up and Move ’Em Out

Part 7. Enjoying the Artist’s Life!

23. Just for Children

24. Decorate Your World

25. Express Yourself

26. The Artist’s Life