Drawing with Pencil
Pencil Drawing Techniques
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how to handle the pencil ... holding the pencil ... loosening-up exercises ... choosing pencils ... smudging for tones ... creating values ... creating forms ... fundamental strokes
CONTENTS
HANDLING THE PENCIL
How to handle the pencil, creating values, creating forms, fundamental strokes.
THE FUNDAMENTS OF DRAWING
Eye level the foundation of perspective, practice exercises, drawing cubic objects, using initial sketches to refine drawings, drawing cylindrical objects, drawing the cylinder first, drawing spherical objects, drawing conical objects, composing objects with basic forms.
DRAWING LANDSCAPES
Creating textures with lines and strokes, seeing the landscape as values, building your first drawing, creating a dark value pattern, smudging the pencil, drawing a harbor scene, drawing reflections in water, simplifying a busy scene, adding interest to a flat landscape, interpreting a cluttered scene, creating a center of interest, developing dark values.
DRAWING PORTRAITS
Drawing the eye, drawing a teenager, drawing a man.
DRAWING ANIMALS
Drawing dogs, drawing the big cats, drawing horses, drawing a cottontail rabbit, drawing small animals.
DRAWING for WATERCOLORS
Planning your compostion, establishing values, recording character in detail, evaluating shapes, drawing areas of interest.
HANDLING COLORED PENCILS
Using the colored pencil, selecting colored pencils, mixing colors, changing value, changing intensity, developing a discerning eye, creating structure with color, tonal techniques, flower with tonal technique, flowers on paper with gesso surface, burnishing, effects of burnishing, using colored pencils with a solvent, achieving a painterly effect, using a colorless blender.
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Drawing with Pencil
Pencil Drawing
Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil
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MATERIALS
Pencils: graphite pencils, charcoal pencils, carbon pencils, graphite sticks, charcoal sticks.
Erasers: eraser pen, typewriter eraser, kneaded eraser. Blending tools: blending stumps, blending tortillons, felt, paper, facial tissues and paper towels, chamis, labeling tip.
Paper: choose the right paper for the subject, don't let the paper be the boss, artists favorite papers, flattening the tooth of the paper
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CONTENTS
MATERIALS
Discover all the materials you'll need to get started and learn how to use them.
TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
Learn tips that show you how to keep your drawing clean, ways to hold your pencil, and ways to observe light and how it affects texture. Step by Step demonstrations teach techniques for basic strokes, blending, combining media, rubbing, indenting and masking
DRAW REALISTIC OBJECTS
Seven step by step demonstrations teach you how to create the textures for old pitted metal, reflective metal, people including eyes skin and hair, glass, weathered wood, leather, barbed wire, and tips for drawing textures of clotthing and fur.
PUT IT ALL TOGETHER in a STILL LIFE
Follow along with two full-length, detailed, step by step demonstrations to create beautiful drawings.
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Drawing with Pencil
Pencil Drawing
Drawing Landscapes in Pencil
Sample pages include:
The Headlands - picture with explaination ... materials ... pencils ... paper ... backing boards ... stools ... erasers ... sharpeners ... picture showing drawing strokes on various papers / boards ... protective paper with picture ... fixatives ... viewing mask with picture ... Hamilton Farm - picture with explaination
CONTENTS
MATERIALS
Pencils, paper, backing boards, stools, erasers, sharpeners, protective paper, fixatives, viewing mask.
GETTING STARTED
Holding the pencil, loosening-up exercises, creating values, creating forms, fundamental strokes, creating textures with lines and strokes, smudging for tones, seeing the landscape as values, seeing the landscape as vignettes.
BUIDLING THE DRAWING
Selecting the subject, viewing the subject, sharpening the pencil, preliminary value studies, preliminary vignette studies, some do's and don'ts, demonstration... building your first drawing, details of the finished drawing.
TREES
Types of trees, principle steps in drawing trees, demonstration... broadleafs, details of the broadleaf, demonstration... conifers, details of the conifer, demonstration... palms, details of the palm.
MOUNTAINS, HILLS, AND ROCKS
Preliminary value studies, demonstration... mountains, details of the mountain, demonstratiion... hills, details of the hill, demonstration... rocks, details of the rock.
INDUSTRIAL SCENES, HOUSES AND CITYSCAPES
Preliminary value studies, demonstration... industrial scenes, demonstration... houses, demonstration... cityscapes, details of the cityscape.
BOATS, HARBORS AND REFLECTIONS
Demonstration... boats, detail studies of boats, demonstration... harbors, details of the harbor, demonstration... reflections.
DRAWING AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Down Colonial Street, St.George Tucker House, The Governor's Palace, The Printing Office, The Back Yards, Gorton's Fish Pier, Rocky Neck, Quiet Inlet, Lane's Cove, Along Nicholson Street.
MATTING AND FRAMING
Selecting the type of mat, cutting mats, selecting the frames.
PORTFOLIO OF DRAWINGS
5 Pound Island, The Yacht Club, Gloucester Paint Company, Motif number 1... Rockport Massachusetts, Camden Falls Main, Granite Pier, The Colonial Home, Along the Duke of Gloucester Street, Farm Country, Side by Side, The Watering Hole, The Gazebo, House on Pleasant Street.
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Drawing with Pencil
Pencil Drawing
Pencil Magic : Landscape Drawing Techniques
Sample pages include:
tools and materials ... pencils ... picture of strokes using a 2B pencil on various papers ... drawing papers ... tip ... sketchbooks ... tracing paper with picture ... masks with pictures ... tip ... erasers and shields with pictures ... stumps and tortillions ... picture of a tree with and without a stump being used ... sharpeners with pictures
CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED
TOOLS AND MATERIALS: The tools are simple. Here's everything you need to get going.
BASIC STROKES: A few basic ways of making a pencil work for you.
DRAWING STYLES: Quick sketches to finished drawings, you choose the style.
MEASURING: How to figure out the relative sizes of things.
LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS: Ways to draw the objects you commonly see in the landscape.
PERSPECTIVE: How to make your flat picture look three dimensional.
DESIGN: How to lay out your drawing for the best visual impact.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Start by choosing a subject and end up with a fine drawing.
DEMONSTRATIONS ... DEMOS
A simple still life, farm buildings, city montage, bare trees, woods and stream, old house, people, animals, open landscape, tree closeup.
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Drawing with Pencil
Pencil Drawing
The Art of Pencil Drawing
Sample pages include:
ways with the pencil ... simple materials and equipment ... shaping the lead ... preparing your pencil for broad stroke technique with illustration ... tonal palette with illustration ... paper ... pencils ... tonal palette ... drawing of a chinese stone head ... lightening tones with a kneaded rubber with illustration ... cutting light accents with illustration ... tortillon stump with illustration
CONTENTS
WAYS WITH THE PENCIL
Simple materials and equipment, shaping the lead, paper, pencils, tonal palette, eraser, tortillon stump, charcoal effect, versatility of the pencil, fixative.
LOOKING AND SEEING
Going to the heart of things, an experience in a garden, creative seeing, communication between artist and object.
SIZE AND COMPOSITION
Time weather and other considerations, size and medium, size and subject, size and tone, size and detail, size and artistic temperament, composing the sketch: selection subordination emphasis, isolating a core of interest, various ways of manipulating values.
PATTERN
What creates pattern?, beginning with pattern, pattern in masonry, basing composition on pattern, pattern and silhouette, tone and value.
SHADOWS
Shadows and form, accenting shadows, creative manipulation of shadows.
TEXTURE
Texture at close range, paper and texture, pencil and texture, abstract texture.
SKETCHING TOWN AND CITY
Emotional incentives, an incident of thwarted incentive, getting accustomed to onlookers, establishing a focal point, knowledge of architecture, perspective and proportion.
LANDSCAPE SKETCHING
Use of symbolism, size in landscape sketching, skies and clouds, an interesting problem in landscape sketching.
DRAWING TREES
A sketching trip, palm trees, silhouette, geometric analysis of tree forms.
MEMORY AND IMAGINATION
Working purely from memory, working from on the spot sketches, drawing by seeing, Degas' advice to students, following your pencil, role of the subconscious, rapid sketching, imagination, distinction between a drawing and a sketch, creative role of untouched paper, imagination and experience, imagination and improviastion.
GALLERY OF PENCIL DRAWINGS
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