Pencil Drawing
Pencil Magic : Landscape Drawing Techniques
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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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Pencil Drawing
Drawing Landscapes in Pencil
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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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