ISBN: 9781600584527

Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 35 cm

Notes:

• Includes index.
• "A comprehensive drawing course for the beginning artist"--Cover.
• "Materials, proportion, composition, perspective, value, applications"--Cover.
• "Walter Foster Academy of Art"--Cover.

Contents:

• Process & procedure
• Materials
• How we see & interpret
• Proportion & size relationships
• Drawing circles in perspective
• Ellipses: foreshortened circles
• Perspective & the picture plane
• Part I: perspective
• Part II: the picture plane & the XY grid
• Composition
• Elements of composition
• Principles of composition
• Graphite tonal application
• Value & light logic
• How to construct a grid
• Ink line & tone application
• Ink
• Ink line mark-making
• Charcoal
• Cast drawing
• Additional subject matter
• Color
• Colored pencil
• Pastel
• Linear perspective
• Principles of perspective
• Inclined planes
• Aerial perspective.

Control Number: 1051592

Subjects:

• Drawing -- Technique.
• Pen drawing -- Technique.
• Pencil drawing -- Technique.