Art of drawing : the complete course

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Uniform Title:

Fundamentos del dibujo artístico. English

Publication Information:

New York : Sterling Pub. Co., [2003]

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Drawing -- Technique.

ISBN:

9781402709326

Format :

Book

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From achieving those first professional strokes to mastering composition, lighting, and color to finishing beautiful still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, here, in one volume, is a course that covers every skill a developing artist needs. Inspiring and instructive images vividly reveal the intricacies of techniques such as shading, tone, contrasts, stumping, contouring; depth effects, and more. Guided drawings include a charcoal of a nude, landscape on gray tone paper, and still life with chiaroscuro.

Introduction	p. 6
Knowing Your Materials	p. 8
Drawing by Fiction	p. 10
Graphite: Line, Control, and Properties	p. 12
Charcoal: The Oldest Medium	p. 16
Tone Techniques with Charcoal	p. 20
Artists' Chalks: Warm and Opaque	p. 24
Sanguine: A Classic Medium	p. 28
The Blending Stump: Many Possibilities	p. 32
The Eraser: A Very Versatile Tool	p. 36
Colored Pencils: A Love for Detail	p. 40
Pastels: Drawing or Painting?	p. 44
Different Drawing Papers: Different Characteristics	p. 48
Liquid Techniques: Brushes and Inks	p. 50
The Wash: A Range of Tones	p. 52
Brush Effects	p. 56
Inks: Strokes and Effects	p. 58
Washes: Effects and Techniques	p. 62
Beginning Steps	p. 64
Achieving a Professional Stroke	p. 66
Training the Hand	p. 68
Basic Strokes	p. 70
Automatic Drawing	p. 72
Techniques to Improve Pencil Control	p. 74
Lines, Spirals, and Gradations	p. 76
Creating Volume in Drawings	p. 78
Hatching: Possibilities and Combinations	p. 80
Rings: Three-Dimensional Forms	p. 84
Pointillism: A Divisionist Technique	p. 86
Gestural and Outline Drawing	p. 88
Drawing Proportionately	p. 90
Strokes and Profiles	p. 92
A Linear Landscape: Controlling the Stroke	p. 94
A Theme: Selection and Composition	p. 96
Factors in Selecting a Theme	p. 98
Composition and Blocking In Shadows	p. 100
Using Perspective in the Preliminary Outline Sketch	p. 104
Calculating Proportions	p. 108
Drawing with Grids	p. 112
The "Lorrain Method:" Harmony in the Composition	p. 114
Point of View: Transformations in the Model	p. 116
Composing Outline Sketches: Balancing the Image	p. 118
Balance and Rhythm: A Visual Order	p. 120
Light and Atmosphere	p. 124
Tonal Techniques	p. 126
Shading	p. 128
How to Shade: Stains, Tones, and Hatchings	p. 132
How to Control the Quality of a Shading	p. 134
Dividing Areas: Controlling Shadows	p. 136
The Importance of Tonal Gradation	p. 138
Tonal Backgrounds: Drawing on Colored Paper	p. 140
Contrasts and Volume Effects	p. 142
Blocking In and Modeling	p. 144
Light and Ambiance: Illuminating the Atmosphere	p. 148
Chiaroscuro: Maximum Contrasts between Light and Shadow	p. 150
Blending Techniques	p. 152
Sfumato: Smooth Contours	p. 154
How to Use a Paper's Texture	p. 156
Correcting without Erasing	p. 158
Depth Effects in Drawing	p. 160
Perspective: Basic Notions	p. 162
Drawing with Atmospheric Perspective	p. 168
The Coulisse Effect: Successive Planes	p. 170
A Contrasted Foreground	p. 172
Color Drawing	p. 174
Colored Pencil and Pastel Drawing	p. 176
Conventional Techniques with Pastels	p. 178
How to Mix Colors	p. 182
Colored Pencil Techniques	p. 184
Mixing with Hatching: The Optical Effects of Color	p. 186
Feathering and Whitening Techniques	p. 188
Scratching and Sgraffito	p. 190
Step by Step	p. 192
Drawing a Nude	p. 194
A Still-life with Sanguine	p. 198
Erasure Technique: Drawing Highlights	p. 200
A Landscape on Gray Paper	p. 202
An Interior with the White-on-White Technique	p. 204
The "Three Color" Technique: Drawing with Pictorial Qualities	p. 208
The Blending Stump Technique: Just a Blurred Stain	p. 212
A Landscape with Chalk Powder	p. 214
Sketching with a Charcoal Pencil	p. 216
A Still-life with Chiaroscuro Effects	p. 218
White Chalk Highlights: An Explosion of Light	p. 222
A Landscape with Graphite	p. 224
A Flower with Abundant Water, Fluidity, and Sinuosity	p. 226
An Interior Patio in Wash	p. 228
A Rural Landscape in Washes and Line	p. 230
Metal Point Drawing: Texture and Hatching	p. 234
The Reed Pen and Its Effects	p. 236
Drawing on Colored Paper with White and Black Inks	p. 238
A Still-life with Colored Inks	p. 240
Controlling the Line: Hatching	p. 242
A Dog with Colored Pencils	p. 246
A Girl in Watercolor	p. 248
The Dry Pastel Technique on a Tonal Background	p. 250
An Urban View with Oil Pastels on a Tonal Background	p. 252
Index	p. 254

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