Art of Drawing The Complete Course
by Sanmiguel, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-01
Publisher(s): Sterling
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| 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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