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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Techniques
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Techniques
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Techniques
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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Techniques

    By Peter Gray

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    From the quickest of pencil sketches to highly finished, inked-up artwork, techniques are an all-important element of drawing. In this book, author and illustrator Peter Gray guides you through the different materials available and how to deploy them to best effect. Whether you are an experienced artist or a complete beginner, tailored step-by-step exercises and practical hints will help you discover the techniques that work for you.

    The Artist's Workbooks are practical guides for artists interested in getting to grips with a particular subject. Other books in the series include:

    • Drawing Animals
    • Drawing Caricatures
    • Drawing Figures
    • Drawing Landscapes
    • Drawing Manga
    • Drawing Portraits
    • Drawing Still Life
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateJan 6, 2014
    ISBN9781782129257
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      The Practical Guide to Drawing Techniques - Peter Gray

      INTRODUCTION

      To the beginner or developing artist, the dazzling array of materials in the art shop can be quite bewildering. It is a common misconception that spending lots of money aids artistic development but in fact, quite the opposite is true. Expensive materials only inhibit the freedom to make mistakes – and mistakes are essential to the processes of learning and developing a creative outlook.

      With only a few basic tools and materials, a vast range of techniques and effects are open to you. This book aims to introduce different ways of thinking about commonplace materials, through which you will become familiar with their various properties and gain proficiency in using them.

      For those readers who have yet to become confident draughtsmen, there are some reminders of the basic principles of drawing. Discussions of line, tone, perspective and more will include helpful tips and shortcuts that may also be useful to more accomplished artists.

      Simple rules of perspective will bring order to complicated structures and scenes.

      Learn the principles of tonal rendering in easy stages.

      Create painterly effects from ordinary drawing materials.

      The best way to instruct is by demonstration. In this book there are examples of many typical – and some not so commonly used – techniques broken down into easy-to-follow stages. When following the exercises, try to resist simply copying my examples; apply the same stages to subjects of your own to create new pictures. Think of the techniques in this book as starting points. You will be encouraged to experiment, push these methods further and devise techniques of your own.

      Although technique is but one element of artistic creation, understanding the methods of drawing will enrich your experience of art, both in analyzing and appreciating other artists’ work and in developing your own personal drawing language.

      Simple inking techniques can be adapted for line, shading and design.

      Achieve slick, professional finish with a bare minimum of materials and equipment.

      THE HUMBLE PENCIL

      By merely changing the angle at which the pencil is held, the breadth and softness of the line changes dramatically. These marks were all made with the same soft pencil (8B), the first three of uniform pressure and the last with considerably less.

      It’s not without good reason that the pencil is the default artists’ tool. Whatever materials artists use, whatever techniques they employ, pencils are never far from hand. They are cheap and versatile, sensitive and robust, perfect for underdrawing, rough studies and work in combination with most other media.

      It’s well worth splashing out on a few artists’ quality pencils. They are graded from H (hard) to B (black) with a number prefix indicating the degree of hardness or blackness. A useful starting set would be H, HB, 2B and 6B.

      An eraser is another vital part of your kit. Erasing mistakes and rough guidelines is an important part of the drawing process. There are many varieties on the market, but they all do essentially the same job.

      For pencil sketches, a

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