Drawing Scenery: Seascapes and Landscapes : Seascapes and Landscapes

by Hamm, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780399508066
• ISBN10: 0399508066
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-09-22
• Publisher: Perigee

Summary

The how-to handbook that exactly explains and illustrates the step-by-step processes for drawing complete, succesful landscapes and seascapes and teaches the fundamentals of good composition as well as the separate picture elements. This guide combines the simplest kind of scenery sketching with the most complex renderings to give every artist, beginner or professional, essential scenery drawing techniques.

More than 900 diagrams, pictorial explanations, and pictures

Author Biography

Jack Hamm is one of the best-selling authors of art instruction books. With nearly a million copies sold, his books have helped aspiring artists of every age and level of ability learn to draw and improve their technique.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Basics of Scenery Drawing
Choosing a "Bounded Space" for a Scene	p. 1
The Horizontal Rectangle	p. 1
"Commanding" the Observer's Attention	p. 2
The Focal Point	p. 2
The Focal Area	p. 2
The Relation of Boundaries to the Interior	p. 3
The Ways of Dividing Space	p. 4
The Principles of Good Space Division	p. 5
Creating a Travel Experience for the Eye	p. 6
Charting the Eye's Course	p. 7
Principles that Help in Scenery Drawing and Painting	p. 8
Relating Three Shapes-One to the Other	p. 9
The Principle of "The Threes"	p. 10
Telling the Picture Story	p. 11
The Entering Point in a Picture	p. 11
"Follow-through" in a Picture	p. 12
Basic Follow-throughs	p. 12
Follow-through and Depth Perception	p. 13
Interior Parenthesis	p. 13
Overcoming the Blank Page (More on Good Space Division)	p. 14
Comprehension Factors in a Picture	p. 16
Co-active Follow-through	p. 17
Experiment in Comprehension	p. 18
Emotional Response	p. 18
Pencils and Papers	p. 20
The Importance of Form	p. 22
Base Lines of a Picture	p. 24
Ground Value Variances	p. 25
Uneven Earthen Contours	p. 26
Principle of the "Take-up" Line	p. 27
Cross-sectioning	p. 28
"Creating" Distance	p. 30
Depth and Distance	p. 32
Contrasting Values	p. 34
Expectations from Different Values	p. 36
Putting Subject Matter out of Mind	p. 38
Leaning Toward the Abstract	p. 40
The Willingness to Explore	p. 41
Drawing Trees and Foliage
Tree Trunks	p. 42
Tree-a Bold Beginning	p. 43
Tree Pointers	p. 43
"Painting" with a Pencil	p. 44
Tree Talk with Illustrations	p. 46
Base Lines	p. 48
Struggling Trees	p. 50
Twenty Drawings of the Same Tree	p. 52
Trees and Their Appearance	p. 54
Drawing Rocks and Mountains
Edges and Surfaces in Rock Drawing	p. 56
Drawing Larger Sections of Rock	p. 57
Field Trips for Rock Sketching	p. 58
Drawing Rocks Within a Given Space	p. 59
Variations Inside the Same Outline	p. 60
Rock Drawing in Other Media	p. 61
Simple "Flat Lead" Sketches	p. 62
Creating Rocky Landscapes in Miniature	p. 63
Elementary Rock Compositions	p. 64
Interesting Patterns in Rock	p. 65
Rock-the Unchangeable Model in Art	p. 66
The Stone Colossus	p. 67
Drawing Mountain Ranges-an A-B-C Method	p. 68
Construction Experiment with Mountain Peaks	p. 70
A Mountain Abstraction	p. 71
Drawing Clouds and Skies
Simplifying Cloud Drawing	p. 72
Cloud Treatments	p. 74
Cloud Formations	p. 76
Sunsets and Sunrises	p. 78
Morning and Evening Skies	p. 80
Diagram of Cloud Types	p. 81
Dramatic Cloud Backgrounds	p. 82
Semi-abstract Skies	p. 83
More Cloud Effects	p. 84
Giving Clouds Dimension	p. 85
Moonlight Scenes	p. 86
Strong Winds	p. 88
Wind and Snow	p. 88
The Upsweep Wind	p. 89
Wind and Sand	p. 89
Drawing Water: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Falls
Reflections in Water	p. 90
Reflections Under Various Conditions	p. 91
Drawing Water Surfaces	p. 92
Puddles and Reflections	p. 93
Nighttime Reflections	p. 93
Lighthouses and Water	p. 94
Lake and Ocean Reflections	p. 95
Water Talk	p. 96
Charting the Course of a Wave	p. 98
Analyzing Waves	p. 99
Great Waves of the Sea	p. 100
Where There's Water	p. 102
Angry and Peaceful Waters	p. 104
Drawing Waterfalls	p. 105
More on Waterfalls	p. 106
Niagara Falls and Stairstep Falls	p. 107
Drawing Snow and Ice	p. 108
Drawing Buildings, Large and Small
Houses in Scenery Drawing	p. 110
A House Is Built in a Minute	p. 111
Planes, Values and Forms	p. 112
A Few Suggested Techniques	p. 113
Putting Buildings Together	p. 114
Drawing Towns and Villages	p. 115
Loose Sketching and Tonal Drawing	p. 116
Crowded Shacks in a Slum	p. 117
Different Approaches to Structural Drawing	p. 118
Recording Planes and Values	p. 119
Index	p. 120
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