Cengage Advantage Books: Drawing Basics

by St. Aubyn, Jacklyn B.

• ISBN13: 9780495006282
• ISBN10: 0495006289
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2006-02-07
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Solidly grounded in a student-friendly learning process, DRAWING BASICS provides a thorough yet simple approach to drawing from observation by breaking down the process into basic elements and essential disciplinary practices. Through a series of carefully structured Basic Drawing Exercises students develop progressively more complex skills that provide a strong foundation in drawing from observation and set the stage for future development of personal expression. Student examples provide inspiration and motivation and offer attainable goals.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Groundwork	1	(8)
Philosophy And Purpose	1	(2)
Emphasis on Your Learning Process	2	(1)
The Importance of Limiting What Is Taught	2	(1)
Basic Drawing Skills	2	(1)
Emphasis on Still Life	3	(1)
The Illustrations	3	(1)
Organization	3	(2)
Basic Skill	4	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercises	4	(1)
Refining Your Skills	4	(1)
Sketchbook Exercises	5	(1)
Drawing Critiques	5	(1)
How To Use This Book	5	(2)
Be Positive and Not Overly Self-Critical	5	(1)
Follow All Directions Carefully	6	(1)
Spend a Sufficient Amount of Time on Each Drawing	6	(1)
Learn from Others	6	(1)
Basic Materials	7	(1)
Basic Materials for Chapters 2--6	7	(1)
Basic Materials for Chapters 7--11	7	(1)
The Drawing Environment	8	(1)
Work Area	8	(1)
Next Step	8	(1)
Seeing	9	(7)
Drawing The Outlines Of Shapes	10	(1)
Focusing On The Visual Relationships Of Shapes	10	(1)
Drawing The Rectangle Of The Picture Plane	11	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 1	11	(1)
Refining Your Skills	12	(2)
Line Quality and Its Importance	12	(1)
Benefits of Not Erasing	12	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	12	(2)
Drawing Critique	14	(2)
What Are the Objectives?	14	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	14	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 1	15	(1)
Patience	16	(13)
Looking Carefully And Drawing Slowly	16	(1)
Looking For Variety In Shapes	17	(1)
Drawing Shapes In Relation To Each Other	17	(3)
Basic Drawing Exercise 2	18	(2)
Basic Drawing Exercise 3	20	(1)
Refining Your Skills	20	(5)
Composition and Touching the Edges of the Picture Plane	20	(2)
Improving the Quality of Lines	22	(1)
How to Correct When You Can't Erase	22	(3)
Sketchbook Assignment	25	(1)
Drawing Critique
What Are the Objectives?	25	(2)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	27	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 2 and 3	28	(1)
Positive Shapes and Negative Spaces	29	(6)
Focusing In A Different Way	29	(1)
Keep Your Attention On The Negative Spaces	30	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 4	30	(1)
Refining Your Skills	31	(1)
Filling the Entire Picture Plane with Shapes	31	(1)
Maintaining a Slow Drawing Pace	32	(1)
The Importance of Seeing Negative Spaces	32	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	32	(1)
Drawing Critique	32	(3)
What Are the Objectives?	32	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	32	(3)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 4	35	(1)
Structure and Texture	35	(12)
Looking Closely At Structure And Texture	36	(4)
Basic Drawing Exercise 5	37	(2)
Basic Drawing Exercise 6	39	(1)
Refining Your Skills	40	(3)
Positioning Objects with Composition in Mind	40	(1)
Looking at Lines and How They Function	41	(2)
Maintaining a Slow Pace	43	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	43	(1)
Drawing Critique	43	(4)
What Are the Objectives?	43	(2)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	45	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 5 and 6	46	(1)
Spatial Depth and Texture	47	(12)
Looking Closely To Differentiate Textures And Shapes	48	(4)
Basic Drawing Exercise 7	49	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 8	50	(2)
Refining Your Skills	52	(3)
Ordering a Detailed Composition	52	(1)
Creating a Variety of Textures with Line	53	(1)
A Shifting Field of Positive and Negative Spatial Relationships	54	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	55	(1)
Drawing Critique	55	(4)
What Are the Objectives?	55	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	56	(2)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 7 and 8	58	(1)
Value	59	(6)
A Personal Approach To The Medium	60	(1)
Development Of The Drawing Surface	60	(1)
Materials	61	(1)
Seeing Value Relationships	62	(3)
Basic Drawing Exercise 9	62	(3)
Local Value	65	(8)
From General To Specific	66	(1)
Benefits Of Beginning With A Ground	67	(1)
Taking Advantage Of The Materials	67	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 10	67	(1)
Refining Your Skills	68	(4)
Develop the Drawing in Layers	68	(2)
Be Aware of the Surface of the Drawing	70	(1)
Create a Full Spectrum of Values	70	(1)
Define Edges of Shapes with Care	70	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	70	(2)
Drawing Critique	72	(1)
What Are the Objectives?	72	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	72	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 10	72	(1)
Volume and Depth	73	(13)
Building Complex Value Relationships	74	(2)
Creating Volume With Value	76	(1)
External Light Source And Its Affect On Form	76	(1)
Value Shifts At The Edges Of Forms	76	(2)
Value Shifts On The Surface Of Forms To Describe Texture	78	(3)
Basic Drawing Exercise 11	79	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 12	80	(1)
Refining Your Skills	81	(3)
Use Charcoal in a Personal and Effective Way	81	(1)
Be Aware of the Drawing Surface	81	(1)
Develop Balance in the Composition	81	(2)
Observe the Complexities in Light and Shadow	83	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	84	(1)
Drawing Critique	84	(2)
What Are the Objectives?	84	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	84	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 11 and 12	85	(1)
Perspective	86	(13)
Creating Perspective Through Observation	86	(1)
The Importance Of A Fixed Point Of View	87	(1)
Making And Using A Viewfinder	87	(1)
Choosing A Vertical Line To Use As A Reference Point	88	(2)
Value As It Relates To Shadows	90	(1)
Instructions For Beginning The Basic Drawing Exercises	91	(2)
Basic Drawing Exercise 13	92	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 14	92	(1)
Refining Your Skills	93	(4)
Understanding the Concept of a Fixed Point of View	93	(1)
Vertical Constant and the Skill of Making Comparisons	94	(1)
Using the Edges of Your Paper	94	(1)
Using Value in Shadow Areas	95	(1)
Using Value to Define the Forms of Shapes	96	(1)
The Importance of Drawing What You See	96	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	96	(1)
Drawing Critique	97	(2)
What Are the Objectives?	97	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	97	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 14 and 15	98	(1)
Developing Expression	99	(14)
Luminosity In Drawing	100	(1)
Range Of Four Values In Drawing	101	(1)
Black-And-White Drawing	102	(1)
Drawing Surface	103	(1)
Reduced Values	103	(7)
Depiction of Depth with Value	104	(1)
Basic Drawing Exercise 15	105	(2)
Basic Drawing Exercise 16	107	(2)
Basic Drawing Exercise 17	109	(1)
Refining Your Skills	110	(1)
Simplify Use of Value	110	(1)
Be Aware of the Drawing Surface	110	(1)
Abstraction and Personal Expression	110	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	111	(1)
Drawing Critique	111	(2)
What Are the Objectives?	111	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	112	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 15, 16, and 17	112	(1)
Using Gesture Drawing	113	(9)
Gesture Drawing	114	(1)
Eye-Hand Coordination	114	(1)
Developing Distinct Marks	115	(2)
Basic Drawing Exercise 18	116	(1)
Refining Your Skills	117	(3)
Working Rapidly	117	(1)
Directional Lines	118	(1)
Drawing Surface	119	(1)
Unique Quality of Marks	120	(1)
Sketchbook Assignment	120	(1)
Drawing Critique	120	(2)
What Are the Objectives?	120	(1)
How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished?	120	(1)
Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 18	121	(1)
Conclusion	122	(1)
Appendix: Critiques	123	(3)
Glossary	126	(2)
Suggestions On Further Reading	128	(1)
Index	129