A Guide to Drawing

by Faber, David; Mendelowitz, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781111342722
• ISBN10: 1111342725
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780030554872, 9780495006947
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-26
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

The best-seller for the introduction to drawing course, A GUIDE TO DRAWING provides an excellent balance of classic, historical examples from around the world coupled with the most current images that reflect the state of the art of drawing. The text provides a systematic and sound course of instruction, beginning with an introduction to the nature of drawing and an invitation into the initial experiences of drawing, both underscored by an emphasis on the importance of learning how to see. The text moves through chapters on art elements, drawing media and subject matter, concluding with more advanced topics that can be used in subsequent courses, encouraging readers to keep this text as a reference throughout their studies and into their careers as artists. The Eighth edition of A GUIDE TO DRAWING covers the most relevant drawing topics being taught today, with more emphasis on fundamentally expressive powers of drawing as a contemporary visual language, and more emphasis on coordinating sight and thought processes while drawing.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Nature and Purpose of Drawing

Developing Our Sight Skills

The Legacy of Seeing

What Is Drawing? What Should It Do? First Glimpses--Types of Drawings

Informative Drawings of Specific Purpose

The Expressive Nature of Drawing

The Expressive Mysteries of Drawing

First Encounters With Drawing

Initial Experiences: Looking, Seeing, and Drawing

Getting Started--Making the First Drawings

Looking at Other Drawings

BeginnerÆs Media

Charcoal

Graphite Pencil

Ballpoint and Felt-Tip Pens

Brush and Ink Drawing

Ink Wash Techniques and Effects

Learning to See Deeply

Coordinating Seeing and Thinking Skills

Atmospheric Seeing--Understanding Forms in Space

Perspective and Foreshortening

Mechanical Aids to Perception

Visualization with Vertical and Horizontal Alignments

Putting Visualization Skills into Practice

Proportional Relationships

Defining Forms with Negative Space

Modular Analysis--A Refined Approach

Seeing, Imagining--More than Physical Sight

The Inner Eye Overtaking Physical Sight

The Art Elements

Line: The Purest Power of Expression

Line Qualities

Gesture Line--Describing Motion

Contour and Blind Contour Line

Making Contour Drawings

Expressive Contour Line and Line Variation

Line--Lost and Found Edges

Searching and Cross-Contour Lines

The Tonal Line--Shading and Modeling

Hatching, Cross-Hatching, Scribbling, and Stippling

Texture: Expression, Perception, Sensual Response

The Textures of Familiar Surfaces

Drawing Textures and Their Likenesses

Inherent Textures of Drawing Media

Textured Line and Stippling

Actual and Simulated Textures

Uniform Texture

Invented or Synthetic Textures

Color: Value Delineation and Expressive Function

The Value Scale

Form Defined by Light and Shadow

Chiaroscuro--The Expressive Use of Value

Qualities of Light and Shadow

The Expressive Range of Value

High Key, Middle Key, Low Key

Full-Range Value Drawings

Value Contrasts for Emphasis

Color and Its Dimensions

Hue and the Value Scale

The Value Scale and Intensity

Color Schemes

Warm and Cool Colors

Mixing Colors

Composition: The Art Elements

Form and Shape--Mass and Volume

Positive Shape and Negative Space

Size and Scale Relationships

Open and Closed Composition

Balance--Harmony--Rhythm

Dominance--Subordination

Eye Movement--Spatial Dynamics

Pattern--Repetition; Rhythm--Unity

Linear Perspective: Drawing Forms in Space

Fixed Viewpoint and Cone of Vision

Picture Plane

Horizon Line and Ground Plane

Central Line of Vision--Central Vanishing Point

One-Point Perspective

Establishing a Grid

Two-Point Perspective

Inclined Planes

Uphill and Downhill Streets

Three-Point Perspective

Circles in Perspective--Ellipses

Ellipses in Varying Perspectives

Drawing Circular Objects

The Multiplicities of Drawing Media

Dry Media Expression

The Family of Dry Drawing Materials

Charcoal--Carbonized Wood

Types of Charcoal and Charcoal Techniques

Charcoal Papers of Varying Tooth and Weights

The Nature of Chalk

The Expressive Qualities of Pastels

Conté Crayon

Wax Crayons--Their Capabilities

Lithographic Crayon

Graphite--Pencil, Powdered, Stick Forms

Soft Graphite, Hard Graphite, and Graphite Powder

Drawing Methods for Color Pencils

Burnishing and Wax Bloom

Water Soluble Color Pencils

Wet Media Expression

Pen and Ink

Types of Pens

Types of Paper for Wet Media

Value, Texture, Pattern with Wet Media

Stippling Effects of Wet Media

Brush and Ink

Drawing with Ink Wash

Modulating with Wash Drawing and Other Media

Monotype Methods and Drawing

Synthesis in Traditional and Contemporary Drawing

The Still Life: Our Love of Objects

Advantages of Still Life Drawing

Still Life Forms and Value Studies

Reducing Objects to Schematic Forms

Still Life Composition and Treatments

The Unmannered Still Life--Avoiding Cliché

Pushing the Still Life Envelope

Transparent and Reflective Surfaces

Expanded Still Life Subjects

Landscape Spaces, Skies, and Atmospheres

Landscapes--Varieties of Expression

The Deeper, Darker Moods of Landscape

Needs of the Landscape Artist

Selecting Landscape Imagery

Texture and Pattern in the Landscape

Spatial Relationships in Nature

Selecting Sky and Landscape Relationships

Rural Villages--Actual and Fantasized

Seascapes

The Human Figure

Drawing the Human Anatomy

Design Elements within Human Anatomy

Preparing to Draw the Live Model

Gesture Drawing and the Human Figure

The Extended Pose

The Human Figure and the Picture Plane

Hands, Feet, Limbs, Foreshortening

Deeper Explorations of Gesture Drawing

Drawing Human Figures in Action

The Clothed Figure in Action and Repose

Bodily Structures Supporting Drapery

Drawing the Human Portrait

The Human Head--Form and Proportion

The Facial Features

Drawing the Self-Portrait

The Objective Portrait

The Idealized Portrait

The Psychological Portrait

Capturing and Drawing a Caricature

Expressive Drawing

Forms of Expression

Empathy in Drawing

Memory and Emotion in Drawing

Imagination and Expression

Metaphor, Imagination, and Expression

Responding Subjectively--Making Media Choices

Perspective Thrusts and Expression

Representation and Abstraction

Expressive Style--More than Talent and Technique

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