Pencil Drawing Techniques

Contents Handling Pencils Fundamentals of Drawing Drawing Landscapes Drawing Portraits Drawing Animals Drawing for Watercolors Handling Color Pencils Artists Ferdinand Petrie Rudy De Reyna Douglas Graves Norman Adams Richard Bolton John Blockley Bet Borgeson Here is a really good book for the artist who wants to develop his or her pencil drawing abilities, whether it's to improve your preliminary sketch work, or to create beautiful pencil drawings complete in their own right. Pencil Drawing Techniques brings together six of today's best artists, all of whom are incredibly fine instructors as well. The artists show you how to develop your skill and ability in handling pencil technique. Ferdinand Petrie shows you how to handle pencils and produce a controlled variety of lines, values, and textures. Then he shows you exactly how to use these techniques to draw landscapes in a range of styles and compositions. Rudy De Reyna explains pencil basics, and explores perspective, size relationships, form, and structure. Douglas Graves teaches you how to begin drawing portraits by building a drawing step-by-step. Norman Adams and Joe Singer demonstrate how you can use the pencil to produce spectacular drawings of animals. John Blockley and Richard Bolton show you how pencil drawings can capture the essence of a subject and help you work out a plan for painting it. Finally, Bet Borgeson teaches you all the secrets of colored pencil work and demonstrates a whole new dimension of artistic style and skill you can achieve with color pencil drawings. The book is divided into seven sections: how to handle a pencil, fundamentals of drawing, drawing landscapes, drawing portraits, drawing animals, drawing for watercolors, and handling color pencils. The copious illustrations throughout show in detail how the artists use their techniques. For the artist who uses the pencil, Pencil Drawing Techniques is an excellent instructional book of ideas for using the pencil creatively. 144 pages. 8 1/4 X 10 7/8 (21 X 27 cm). 31 color plates. 80 black-and-white illustrations. Index.Lewis, David is the author of 'Pencil Drawing Techniques' with ISBN 9780823039913 and ISBN 0823039919.