Figure Drawing ... methods from eminent artists ...
Figure Drawing
Sample pages include:
Working tools - the pencil - charcoal - pastels - other supplies - erasing - papers and drawing boards - models and where to find them - life class in your own home.
DESCRIPTION
This book introduces you to an exciting approach to figure drawing.
It was especially created by a group of America's most eminent artists who have demonstrated the methods they have used in their distinguished careers.
You, too, will find that figure drawing is one of the areas of art that can bring you much fun and excitement. Not only will you gain rich satisfaction from drawing or painting, but you'll discover that people admire creative talent -- and you'll experience the pride of achievement that comes from developing a valuable skill that most others lack. Also, if you have sufficient desire and dedication, your talent in drawing could even lead you into an exciting and challenging career as a professional artist. But, whether or not you have the ambition to be a professional, you'll find that art will be a wonderfully satisfying pursuit. In this book you'll find fresh approaches to the following features:
* THE HUMAN FORM
* DRAWING MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
* MODELS -- WHERE TO FIND THEM
* GESTURE DRAWING
* DRAWING -- STEP-BY-STEP
* THE BASIC FORM FIGURE
* ARTISTIC ANATOMY
* LIGHTING THE FIGURE
* THE FIGURE IN MOTION
CONTENTS
Your Practice Projects... how they teach you. Drawing the human form.
Working tools... paper and drawing boards. Models... and where to find them. The gesture... a natural way to draw. Figure drawing... step by step. Try these gesture exercies. Practice project.
The basic forms. Construction of the figure. Developing the form figure from gesture drawing. Practical uses of the basic form figure. Practice project.
Contour drawing. Practice project.
The figure as a solid form. Form and bulk. Practice project.
Artistic anatomy... relative proportions. The skeleton and muscles. The head; the torso. The arm. The hand and wrist. The leg and foot. Practice project.
Humanizing the basic form figure. Practice project.
Lighting the figure and head. The figure in motion. The figure in balance. The figure... walking and running. Drawing the standing female figure. Drawing the standing male figure. Practice project. Think with tracing paper: transfer with tracing paper.
Tracing papers... more practice projects. Instructor overlays, extra tracing paper sheets.
Figure Drawing Books
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Famous Artists School Figure Drawing |
How to Draw the Human Head and How to Draw the Human Figure
Sample pages include:
how to draw the female eye, how to draw the female mouth, how to draw a lauging mouth vs. how to draw a straight mouth
Jack Hamm
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How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs.
20 step-by-step demonstrations show you how to draw realistic likenesses using the Hammond Blended Pencil Technique.
Sample pages include:
You Can Do It! Here's Proof.
You can Do It! Here's Proof - check out some amazing before and after portraits drawn by students.
CONTENTS
Blending: the Key to Realistic Portraits - discover how the Hammond Blended Pencil Technique can make anything you draw appear realistic.
Drawing the Nose - start with a sphere, use blending to give form, and learn how to graph a facial feature.
Drawing the Mouth - learn how to shade and shape the lips and teeth so they don't appear outlined, then see how to draw realsitic beards and mustaches.
Drawing the Ear - look for the interlocking shapes and variety of tones that make up the ear, and see how to correctly place the ear on the head.
Drawing the Eyes - study the structure of the eye and discover how to tone the iris, shape the eyelids and brows, and indicate the direction of gaze. Eyeglasses add a finishing touch.
Putting it Together - learn the correct placement and proportion of all the features, how to graph the entire face, and how to choose a good photo to work from.
How to Draw Hair - with easy step-by-step instructions, draw many different types of hairstyles and colors for men, women and children.
How to Draw Clothing - look for the five basic folds, then how the light source affects the fabric's folds and creases.
How to Draw Hands - compare the size and shape of men's and women's hands, and block in the angles and planes to keep the hands from looking rubbery.
Composition, Backgrounds and Special Effects - learn how to compose your subject on the paper, try creative backgrounds and cropping, and use a montage to tell a story.
BACK COVER
If you've always wanted to draw beautiful, realistic-looking portraits of your favorite people, this step-by-step guide shows you how to do it - better and more easily than you ever thought possible.
Lee Hammond quickly teaches you how to add the illusion of three-dimensional highlights and shadows to simple shapes using pencil shading and blending. After you've got the basics down, you'll learn how to use the same techniques to portray every feature of the human face. You'll also discover how to figure out what the features of your photographed model really look like so you can draw them from different angles. Then Hammond shows you how to put all those features together to create a lifelike portrait that truly captures the individuality of your subject.
After you've completed these easy-to-do drawing exercises, you'll soon be turning the memories frozen in old snapshots into warm, beautiful works of art.
Also shown on the back cover are samples from the book.
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How to Draw Heads and Portraits
Sample pages include:
Polyclitus and the Canon, anthropometry, proportions on a greek skulpture
Proportions on the Human Body (Male and Female)
Contents
Ingres's advice to his students
The Canon For the Human Head - anthropometry - that is the canon? - the head seen from the front - the head seen in profile
The Construction of the Human Head - the skull - the basic structure - the perspective of the circle and the sphere - the canon applied to the basic structure - the structure of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth - practice exercises - examples of the head in different positions - practice exercise in drawing a model
Age and Gender in Drawing the Human Head - at the age of two - value and contrast in drawing children's heads - the development of the human head - elderly people - women's heads - examples of women's heads
Detailed Study of the Parts of the Face - eyebrows and eyes - the external appearance of the eyes - pairs of eyes - noses and ears - lips and mouths - hair
The portrait - a lesson from Velazquez - basic features of a good portrait - how to do a good portrait - likeness - applications of Ingres's advice
The Portrait as a Work of Art - lighting - pose - more about the pose and the distance of the model - preliminary sketches and composition - using preliminary sketches to study the pose - formats and sizes - How to Draw Portraits - portraits in red chalk, step by step - doing a self-portrait: you are your own model
Jose Maria Parramon
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Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces
Sample pages include:
Fabulous drawing of an eagle ... materials and supplies ... self-portrait ... the first rule of art ... basic drawing materials ... tip ... make a point ... get the lead out ... the secret life of pink erasers ... more than kneads the eye ... the gentle eraser ... only the best ... flossing your drawing ... rulers and templates ... blending tools ... a few words on paper ... realistic drawing of a baby.
DESCRIPTION
This book will have beginning artists of all ages drawing faces that are strikingly realistic and detailed. Artist Carrie Stuart Parks honed her fast and effective drawing skills as a professional forensic artist. Here she makes drawing fun and easy, showing beginners how to render vivid self portraits and portraits of others, all in a matter of hours.
Artists will successfully learn how to master proportions and map facial features accurately. They will then study shapes within a composition and learn to draw them realistically. Lastly, artists will study the subject's values and use them to bring life and accuracy to each portrait. A final 'checking' step helps artists capture heightened realism and accuracy.
This book features clear step-by-step instructions, before-and-after examples from students, and proven drawing exercises used to train artists throughout the country.
CONTENTS
Materials and supplies... pencils and erasers ... other tools. The problem ... why is drawing so hard? ... natural artists.
SITE... site tool: measuring ... site tools: flattening and optical indexing.
SHAPE... train your mind ... shape tool: isolate ... shape tools: simplify and relate ... shape tool: measure ... shape tool: invert ... shape tools: rename and incline ... shape tool: negative ... shape tool: question ... shape tool: compare ... shape tool: flatten.
SHADE... understanding shade tools ... shade tool: values/lines ... shade tools: isolate, squint and compare ... shade tool: question ... shade tool: seek ... accuracy-checking techniques.
DRAWING EYES... eyes as shapes ... centering ... relate ... eyelid creases ... shading and filling the eye ... eyebrows and eyelashes.
DRAWING NOSES... the nose as a shape ... nose site ... wing site ... basic wing shape ... nostril basics ... nostril shapes ... nose tricks.
DRAWING LIPS and TEETH... parts of the mouth ... shading the mouth ... dealing with teeth.
DRAWING the HEAD... the structure of the head ... head shapes ... cheeks ... chins ... necks ... the female face ... child vs. adult head shapes ... drawing ears.
DRAWING HAIR... creating different types of hair ... different hairstyles.
Carrie Stuart Parks
Drawing Books Portraiture
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How to Draw Realistic Portraits with Coloured Pencil Step by Step with artist Ann Kullberg
Sample pages include:
Getting started, materials with hints, basic techniques.
CONTENTS
Introduction ... Getting Started ... Composing a Portrait ... Seeing the Light ... Creating Believable Skin Tones ... Painting Features of the Face ... Painting Hair ... Painting Fabric ... Putting It All Together.
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How to Draw Caricatures
Sample pages include:
materials and supplies ... marker techniques ... drawing eyes ... pencil techniques ... shading
Artist / Caricaturist - Harry Hamernik
learn how to draw caricatures, learn to draw a caricature, learn how to draw eyes, learn how to draw an eye, learn pencil techniques, learn shading
Caricature Drawing Books
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How to Draw
Sample pages include:
Fundamentals of drawing ... Basic structure of objects.
DESCRIPTION
A best-seller for 35 years; A timeless classic that has taught generations of artists; and will teach generations more. When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of the publisher's best-seller list; and it has remained there ever since. 'I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them; realistically,' wrote Rudy de Reyna in this introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned to draw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, using de Reyna's methods. How to Draw What You See shows artists how to recognize the basic shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains.
Structure ... Form ... Perspective ... Light and Shade ... Composition ... Values ... Still Life ... Figure ... Hands and Feet ... Heads and Faces ... Children ... Charcoal ... Wash ... Opaque ... Acrylic ... Ink
BACK COVER
Everyone wishes that he could faithfully reproduce the world around him - wishes that he could draw what he sees. Here is a book that teaches you how.
Rudy de Reyna believes that there are only four basic shapes in nature - the cube, the cylinder, the cone, and the sphere. Every object is based on one of these geometric shapes, although the shape itself may be greatly modified. Once you can see the basic shape of an object, you can draw that object, no matter how much detail it may contain.
Part one discusses the fundamentals of drawing. There are clear; concise, and lavishly illustrated projects. Each project is arranged so that one is slightly more complex than the one before.
In part two, the author explains the use of media not usually described in a drawing book - wash, opaque, watercolor, and acrylic. He provides exercises to help the student gain proficiency in handling each of them.
CONTENTS
Part 1
Project 1: Basic Structure of Objects - drawing straight lines - drawing lines freehand - holding the pencil - angle and direction of lines.
Project 2: Eye Level: Foundation of Perspective - changing shapes and eye level - vanishing points - cube in perspective - judging size relationships - objects below eye level - practice exercies.
Project 3: Drawing Cubic Objects - cubic forms in everyday things - searching with lines - handling detail - refining with tracing paper.
Project 4: Drawing Cylindrical Objects - drawing curved lines - observing cylindrical forms - rendering cylindrical objects - ellipses and perspective.
Project 5: Drawing Spherical Objects - departures from the geometric sphere - depth and the sphere.
Project 6: Drawing Conical Objects - symmetry of the cone - drawing everything.
Project 7: Putting Basic Forms Together - basic forms and their relatiionships - drawing symmetrical objects - drawing and observation.
Project 8: The Horizontal Plane - relating objects - contours - creating a composition - selecting a viewpoint - prespective in a still life - working with actual objects - a brief summary.
Project 9: Light and Shade - observing light and shadow - light and dimension - tonal values - using the full tonal scale - cast shadows - shadow edges - angle of light - level of light.
Project 10: Translating Local Color to Black and White - using a middle tone - values and tones - tonal arrangement - rendering texture - tactile and visual textures.
Project 11: Drawing a Still Life - copying versus drawing from life - composition and construction - laying down correct tones.
Project 12: Drawing with Charcoal - vine and compressed charcoal - powdered charcoal - erasers and blenders - papers - toned papers - fixative - charcoal's versatility - ease of manipulation.
Project 13: Still Life in Charcoal - four drawing pronciples - hard and soft edges - working from "roughs" - composing a still life - practice versus theory.
Project 14: Drawing Outdoors - natural light - light at different times of day - observing the effects of light - reflected light - searching for basic forms - using a view finder - drawing on the spot.
Project 15: Drawing Outdoors with Charcoal - advantages and disadvantages of charcoal - capturing the moods of nature - rendering specific objects - rough charcoal sketches - finished drawings in charcoal.
Project 16: Drawing the Figure - basic body proportions - cylindrical human form - some body measurements - foreshortening - drawing from life - working over the whole figure - light and shadow on the figure.
Project 17: Drawing Hands and Feet - drawing feet - drawing hands - finding your niche.
Project 18: Drawing Heads and Faces - a general procedure - angles and planes of the head - facial guidelines - male and female features - drawing the head and face from life - drawing the nose - drawing ears - drawing eyes and eyebrows - drawing the mouth - life drawing from memory.
Project 19: Drawing Children - drawing the infant's head - drawing the teenager - male and female characteristics in children - capturing a child's character.
Part 2
Drawing in Various Media
Project 20: Wash Techniques - pigment and mixer - surfaces - brushes - additional equipment - properties of wash - flat wash - wet-in-wet technique - graded wash - drybrush - linear effects.
Project 21: Drawing with Wash - working drawings - realism first.
Project 22: A Still Life in Wash - arranging and lighting - using a graded wash - eliminating pencil lines - preparing tone.
Project 23: Outdoors with Wash - transporting your materials - suiting your medium to your subject.
Project 24: Opaque Techniques - characteristics of opaque - pigments - brushes and drawing surfaces - accessories - dry brush blending - wet blending - working toward craftsmanship.
Project 25: Still Lifes in Opaque - establishing the large shapes - balancing textures - using transfer paper - paint consistency - support for the hand - controlling opaque - suitability of opaque.
Project 26: Outdoors with Opaque - opaque watercolor and nature - materials to take along - choosing a subject.
Project 27: Acrylic Techniques - brushes, pigment, and surfaces - characteristics of acrylic - versatility of acrylic.
Project 28: Still Life in Acrylic - composition and movement - considering picture space.
Project 29: Outdoors with Ink and Mixed Media - ink and additional equipment - two ink techniques - outdoors with mixed media.
Project 30: Drawing Children in Various Media - nudes versus children - children in opaque ... A Parting Word ... Index
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