Drawing and Sketching in Pencil
Book description
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…
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1 author picked Drawing and Sketching in Pencil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book, from one of the great masters of architectural sketching and rendering, was created at a time when the craft was at its peak in the 1920s. The writing can feel a bit dated–although it’s still excellent and extremely thorough–but the techniques and examples are absolutely wonderful.
I can’t describe all I’ve learned from this book over the years, but of particular note are the shading techniques and the ways of seeing and thinking about light and dark. These ways of seeing and thinking have helped me immensely in other media, especially watercolor.
From Matthew's list on learning to draw from observation.
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