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More About This Title Pencil Sketching, Second Edition
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Portable. Erasable. Inexpensive. No other single drawing tool is as versatile as the pencil. Through the centuries, generations of artists have used it to work out ideas, study form, and develop fundamental skills that are crucial to an artist’s training.
Pencil Sketching has taught thousands of beginners the basic principles and techniques of pencil sketching. Carefully revised to meet the needs of today’s artists, this edition features easy-to-follow instructions, dozens of new illustrations, and more–everything you need to explore the amazing potential of the pencil and learn to sketch with confidence.
Techniques: shading, texture, value, line, strokes . . .Materials: pencils, papers, accessories . . .Skills: observation, recording, composition, sketching from memory . . .Subjects: trees, landforms, water, architecture, cityscapes . . .and more!
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PREFACE IX
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT 7
Pencils 7
Papers 13
Accessories 17
3. TECHNIQUES 19
Holding the Pencil 19
Pressure 23
Movement of the Hand 27
Lines and Strokes 31
4. SKETCHING 37
Introduction 37
Observation and Recording 39
Landscape Sketching 41
Trees 43
Trees in the Foreground 51
Trees in the Background 52
Landforms 55
Water 59
Architecture 63
Sketching the Cityscape 67
5. COMPOSITION 71
6. SKETCHING FROM MEMORY 85
7. EXAMPLES 91
INDEX 113
