| Description |
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: P4:Contents: -- Introduction, 5 -- Knowing Your Materials, 8 -- Drawing by Fiction, 10 -- Graphite: Line, Control, and Properties, 12 -- Charcoal: The Oldest Medium, 16 -- Tone Techniques with Charcoal, 20 -- Artists' Chalks: Warm and Opaque, 24 -- Sanguine: A Classic Medium, 28 -- The Blending Stump: Many Possibilities, 32 -- The Eraser: A Very Versatile Tool, 36 -- Colored Pencils: A Love for Detail, 40 -- Pastels: Drawing or Painting?, 44 -- Different Drawing Papers: Different Characteristics, 48 -- Liquid Techniques: Brushes and Inks, 50 -- The Wash: A Range of Tones, 52 -- Brush Effects, 56 -- Inks: Strokes and Effects, 58 -- Washes: Effects and Techniques, 62 -- Beginning Steps, 64 -- Achieving a Professional Stroke, 66 -- Training the Hand, 68 -- Basic Strokes, 70 -- Automatic Drawing, 72 -- Techniques to Improve Pencil Control, 74 -- Lines, Spirals, and Gradations, 76 -- Creating Volume in Drawings, 78 -- Hatching: Possibilities and Combinations, 80 -- Rings: Three-Dimensional Forms, 84 -- Pointillism: A Divisionist Technique, 86 -- Gestural and Outline Drawing, 88 -- Drawing Proportionately, 90 -- Strokes and Profiles, 92 -- A Linear Landscape: Controlling the Stroke, 94 -- A Theme: Selection and Composition, 96 -- Factors in Selecting a Theme, 98 -- Composition and Blocking In Shadows, 100 -- Using Perspective in the Preliminary Outline Sketch, 104 -- Calculating Proportions, 108 -- Drawing with Grids, 112 -- The "Lorrain Method:" Harmony in the Composition, 114 -- Point of View: Transformations in the Model, 116 -- Composing Outline Sketches: Balancing the Image, 118 -- Balance and Rhythm: A Visual Order, 120 -- Light and Atmosphere, 124 -- Tonal Techniques, 126 -- Shading, 128 -- How to Shade: Stains, Tones, and Hatchings, 132 -- How to Control the Quality of a Shading, 134 -- Dividing Areas: Controlling Shadows, 136 -- The Importance of Tonal Gradation, 138 -- Tonal Backgrounds: Drawing on Colored Paper, 140 -- Contrasts and Volume Effects, 142 -- Blocking In and Modeling, 144 -- Light and Ambiance: Illuminating the Atmosphere, 148 -- Chiaroscuro: Maximum Contrasts between Light -- and Shadow, 150 -- Blending Techniques, 152 -- Sfumato: Smooth Contours, 154 -- How to Use a Paper's Texture, 156 -- Correcting without Erasing, 158 -- Depth Effects in Drawing, 160 -- Perspective: Basic Notions, 162 -- Drawing with Atmospheric Perspective, 168 -- The Coulisse Effect: Successive Planes, 170 -- A Contrasted Foreground, 172 -- Color Drawing, 174 -- Colored Pencil and Pastel Drawing, 176 -- Conventional Techniques with Pastels, 178 -- How to Mix Colors, 182 -- Colored Pencil Techniques, 184 -- Mixing with Hatching: The Optical Effects of Color, 186 -- Feathering and Whitening Techniques, 188 -- Scratching and Sgraffito, 190 -- Step by Step, 192 -- Drawing a Nude, 194 -- A Still-life with Sanguine, 198 -- Erasure Technique: Drawing Highlights, 200 -- A Landscape on Gray Paper, 202 -- An Interior with the White-on-White Technique, 204 -- The "Three Color" Technique: Drawing with -- Pictorial Qualities, 208 -- The Blending Stump Technique: Just a Blurred Stain, 212 -- A Landscape with Chalk Powder, 214 -- Sketching with a Charcoal Pencil, 216 -- A Still-life with Chiaroscuro Effects, 218 -- White Chalk Highlights: An Explosion of Light, 222 -- A Landscape with Graphite, 224 -- A Flower with Abundant Water, Fluidity, and Sinuosity, 226 -- An Interior Patio in Wash, 228 -- A Rural Landscape in Washes and Line, 230 -- Metal Point Drawing: Texture and Hatching, 234 -- The Reed Pen and Its Effects, 236 -- Drawing on Colored Paper with White and Black Inks, 238 -- A Still-life with Colored Inks, 240 -- Controlling the Line: Hatching, 242 -- A Dog with Colored Pencils, 246 -- A Girl in Watercolor, 248 -- The Dry Pastel Technique on a Tonal Background, 250 -- An Urban View with Oil Pastels on a -- Tonal Background, 252 -- Index, 254 |
| Summary |
"Develop your skills at drawing, learning the fundamentals so that you can focus on expressing yourself. From training your hand and controlling the stroke to composition and effects offered by various tools and materials, these methods are easily mastered with practice."--BOOK COVER |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Notes |
Originally published in Spain in 2002 under the title: Fundamentos del dibujo artístico |
| Subject |
Drawing -- Technique.
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| Author |
Guzmán, María Constanza.
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Martín Díaz, Olga.
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| LC no. |
2003015878 |
| ISBN |
1402709323 |
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