The Drawing Book: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technique of Drawing Landscapes, Seascapes, Still Lifes, Portraits and Figures - Hardcover

Wendon Blake; Ferdinand Petrie; John Lawn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273016113 ISBN 13: 9780273016113

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1980

Synopsis

Here is the most comprehensive book now available on the technique of drawing, with 700 illustrations, including 78 step-by-step demonstrations of still life, landscape, seascape, portrait, and figure drawings in pencil, chalk, and charcoal. Every major drawing technique is illustrated and every step is shown, with precise instructions that tell you how to execute each drawing operation. Part One of The Drawing Book is "Starting to Draw," which shows you the essential tools for drawing in pencil, chalk, and charcoal; explains the basics of measuring, proportions, perspective, eye level, and values; introduces the fundamental techniques of pencil, chalk, and charcoal drawing; and demonstrates how to draw the simple geometric shapes on which the forms of nature are based-the cube, cylinder, cone, and sphere. Then artist Ferdinand Petrie demonstrates how to put these basics to work as he draws, step by step, a variety of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits in all three media. "Landscape Drawing," Part Two, begins by showing you how to apply what you've learned about measuring, proportions, perspective, and geometric forms to outdoor subjects-landscapes as well as seascapes. Then Petrie demonstrates a wide range of pencil, chalk, and charcoal techniques as he draws all * the major components of the landscape. In "Portrait Drawing," Part Three, you begin by learning the forms and proportions of the male and female head in four different views. Then artist John Lawn demonstrates, step by step, how to draw the male and female eye, mouth, nose, and ear-as well as the total head-seen from a variety of views: front, side, three-quarters, and tilted. Finally, Lawn displays all the major pencil, chalk, and charcoal drawing techniques as he executes portraits of 10 sitters with diverse hair and skin tones. Part Four, focuses on the male and female nude. You start by studying the proportions of male and female figures in four different views.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0273016113
• ISBN 13: 9780273016113
• Binding: Hardcover