Drawing, fundamentals of drawing, basic structure of objects ... with sample drawings ...
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
Artists Easels
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Rudy de Reyna Drawing, fundamentals of drawing, basic structure of objects |
Keys to Drawing
Sample pages include:
the drawing process ... sketch of an effective and ineffective artist at work ... drawing shoes ... looking, holding, drawing a line ... drawing blind ... restating ... sketch of a man
Mini Drawing Lessons
Keys to Drawing
Self Evaluation
Drawing Books for Beginners
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Pencil Drawing Techniques
Sample pages include:
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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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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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
Illustrated
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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Perspective Made Easy
Sample pages include:
Picture... Yacht at Sea
Perspective Pictures... Artist at Work, A Brick with and without Perspective
The Horizon
Vanishing Point with Pictures
Eye-level with Picture... man on train tracks
learn perspective drawing, learn to draw using perspective, learn the principles of perspective, learn to draw in 3D, learn 3D drawing, learn to draw in 3 dimensions, learn 3 dimensional drawing
Perspective Drawing Books
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The Natural Way to Draw a Working Plan for Art Study
Sample pages include:
how to use this book ... contour and gesture (observation)
Drawing Naturally
Learn How to Draw Naturally
Figure Drawing
Art Study Book
Drawing Books
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Drawing for older children and teens ... a creative method for adult beginners too
Sample pages include:
drawing: the big picture - exploring different styles ... there is no right way: letting go of preconceptions ... learning the differences: appreciating more possibilities ... abstract drawing: from toddler's scribbles to modern art ... scribbling
Artist - Mona Brookes
learn to draw for older children, learn to draw for beginners
Creative Drawing Lessons
Learn to Draw Books
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