Drawing and Sketching in Pencil (Dover Art Instruction) - Softcover

Arthur L. Guptill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486460487 ISBN 13: 9780486460482

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2007

Synopsis

This classic guide offers clear, concise instruction in the basics as well as the finer points of pencil drawing. Appropriate for beginning and intermediate students, it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations that encompass a wide range of subjects — mainly architectural, but also people, animals, and landscapes — and demonstrate a tremendous variety of techniques.
An architect, painter, art director, and teacher, Arthur L. Guptill wrote several popular books on drawing. He begins this two-part treatment, aimed at architects, artists, and students, with discussions of drawing objects in outline and in light and shade, the principles of freehand perspective, methods of cast and life drawing, and sketching animals. The second part examines the choice of subjects and drawing in outline and in flat and graded tones. The important subject of composition receives considerable attention, with particular focus on unity and balance. Additional topics include working from photographs and from nature, the representation of buildings — including exteriors, interiors, and street scenes — and portraying details and accessories, from furniture, draperies, doors, and windows to clouds, water, and trees.

About this title

About the Author

Co-founder of Watson-Guptill Publications and co-editor of American Artist magazine, Arthur L. Guptill was an architect, painter, art director, and author of several popular books on drawing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486460487
• ISBN 13: 9780486460482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208