THE PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DRAWING Discover the pleasure and practicalities of drawing with this comprehensive, fully illustrated step-by-step guide.
A practical introduction to all aspects of drawing for beginners to intermediates, with full technical instruction and example projects.
Includes a guide to all the artist's materials and equipment you will need, including monochrome and coloured pencils, charcoal, wax crayons, chalks, soft pastels, conte sticks, pen and ink, easels and the various types of drawing paper.
Provides instruction on different drawing techniques, with small-scale practice exercises: drawing outlines, shading and tonal work, line and wash, sketching, using negative spacing. blending, frottage and sgraffito, as well as fundamental principles such as understanding perspective, composition and colour.
Features over 25 original fully illustrated projects, which allow you to learn and practise the techniques in action, and create works of art of your own.
Includes 'quick sketch' projects showing how landscapes, still lifes, people, animals, buildings, trees and flowers can be created in under 30 minutes.