Record details

• ISBN: 1581805055
• ISBN: 9781581805055
• Physical Description: print
  111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, [2004]
• Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Pencil 10 -- Shopping List -- Pencil Pointers -- Drawing With Pencil -- Value Scale -- Keep Your Pencils Sharp -- Skill-Building Exercise: Hatching and Crosshatching -- Skill-Building Exercise: Contour Lines -- Skill-Building Exercise: Blind Contour Drawing -- Skill-Building Exercise: Cross-Contour Lines -- Skill-Building Exercise: Gesture Line Drawing -- Blending and Rubbing -- Demonstration: To Rub or Not To Rub -- Demonstration: Combining Lessons -- Eraser Characteristics -- Skill-Building Exercise: Let's Erase! -- Moving On -- Chapter 2 Charcoal 32 -- Shopping List -- Vine and Compressed Charcoal -- Paper and Other Supplies -- Skill-Building Exercise: Explore Charcoal -- Skill-Building Exercise: Create Backgrounds for Your Drawings -- Skill-Building Exercise: Creating Values by Lifting and Erasing -- Value Scales with Charcoal -- Light Types and Sources Affect Value -- How to Create the Illusion of Volume -- Skill-Building Exercise: Drawing a Cylinder -- Skill-Building Exercise: Drawing a Simple Still Life -- Skill-Building Exercise: Drawing Drapery Folds -- Using a Fixative -- Chapter 3 Conte Crayon 50 -- Shopping List -- Paper and Other Supplies -- Characteristics of Conte Crayon -- Getting Into Color -- Lighting Conditions -- Demonstration: Drawing a Still Life with Cast Shadow -- Demonstration: Blending and Rubbing with Conte -- Demonstration: Let's Use Color -- Demonstration: Using Candlelight -- Demonstration: Adding to the Subtractive Process -- Demonstration: Drawing on a Colored Ground -- Chapter 4 Pastel 74 -- Shopping List -- Characteristics of Pastel -- Skill-Building Exercise: Create the Perfect Point -- Using Pastels -- Characteristics of Color -- Semineutral Colors -- Pastel Paper -- How to Create Believable Space -- Demonstration: Orange Still Life on Layout Paper -- Demonstration: Flower and Apple Still Life -- Demonstration: Pastel on Charcoal Paper -- Demonstration: Pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes -- Working From a Photograph -- Demonstration: Pastel on Sandpaper.

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Drawing Technique