How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal

Author: Nathan Fowkes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624650314
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Whether you're an aspiring artist or new to the medium, seasoned instructor and accomplished artist Nathan Fowkes makes drawing portraits in charcoal not only accessible, but also a real pleasure! From stocking the best supplies to using them effectively, and composing a portrait while avoiding common mistakes, How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal by Nathan Fowkes will place you firmly on the path to producing the charcoal portraits you've dreamed of creating. His easy-to-follow tips, in-depth tutorials, and valuable exercises make this guide your first step toward building an understanding and appreciation for every face you draw. This handy book will equip you with the skills to capture them in beautiful charcoal fashion.

Drawing with Charcoal

Author: Kate Boucher
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785009761
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
Charcoal is a versatile and dramatic medium with incredible potential for expression. This stunning book shows you how to create a drawing using its subtle, complex and bold qualities to best effect. Through step-by-step demonstrations and tasks, it explores the process, explaining how to capture a scene or the feeling of a scene, and, essentially, how best to fix an image to the page. With over 200 illustrations, this beautiful book is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to work with this elusive and powerful medium. Topics covered include: The basics of charcoal – explains the material, its qualities and ways of using it; Charcoal lenses – advises on how to choose interesting subjects with the use of photography and sketchbooks, and how to build a library of visual references; Mark making – includes techniques for complete beginners, as well as more advanced ideas for those hoping to develop and refine their work; Demonstrations – shows how to use the techniques and build a body of work; Soft pastel – suggests ways of combining charcoal with pastel to add colour to your work; Tasks and extensions – gives tips for trying and exploring ideas further to develop your own skills and to create a unique style to your work and finally: Protecting your work – advises on the key techniques used for fixing, photographing, storing and framing your work.

Henry Yan's Figure Drawing

Author: Henry Yan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781427610232
Category : Figure drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
The author has many years of experience in teaching drawing and painting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. This book is focused on various techniques and styles in drawing human figures and portraits. The book has 192 pages, each page includes one or more figure/head drawings done from live models. There are about 20 step-by-step demonstrations from detailed and traditional approaches to fast and painterly styles. It's a book that will benefit both beginners and advanced learners.

Pencil, Ink and Charcoal Drawing

Author: Charles X. Carlson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145786
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
This original compilation gathers together four of Charles X. Carlson's finest art instruction books and presents them in one comprehensive volume. A well-known artist, author, and teacher, Carlson offers clear, uncomplicated methods of drawing for aspiring artists at every level. Chock-full of step-by-step illustrations, this compendium expertly covers the fundamentals of drawing figures, portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes for a wide variety of mediums. An all-in-one guide for art students, it includes: Simplified Ink, Pen and Brush Drawing opens the door to a number of drawing techniques, including spattering, stippling, cross-hatching, accented strokes, and the use of chalk and crayon. Simplified Drawing teaches artists the ABCs of free-hand drawing and features the basic principles of an object's construction using the easy "block method." The Simplified Essentials of Charcoal Drawing discusses charcoal materials and how to use them, and includes various techniques of charcoal drawing with application to cast, life, and outdoor sketching. Simplified Pencil Drawing presents the various methods of pencil drawing, step by step, while building students' knowledge of the subject and encouraging them to develop their own individual pencil techniques.

Expressive Figure Drawing

Author: Bill Buchman
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823033147
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates more than 30 essential exercises, empowering you to draw the figure dramatically and with confidence, no matter your current level of skill. Filled with step-by-step demonstrations, inspiring images, and insightful text revealing a wide range of techniques and concepts, this book presents new ways to think about the figure and use your materials to free the artist within.

The Natural Way to Draw

Author: Kimon Nicolaïdes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395530078
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
An approach to drawing technique based on observation covering contour and gesture, model drawing, memory in ink and watercolor; anatomy study, drapery, shade, structure, and other topics in drawing.

Light and Shade with Chapters on Charcoal, Pencil, and Brush Drawing

Author: Anson Kent Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

Charcoal Drawing

Author: Ken Goldman
Publisher: Walter Foster Library
ISBN: 9781936309269
Category : Charcoal drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Written by artists of national profile, this book provides an insiders guide to good tools, and tricks along with best practice techniques. Step by step "proofs".

Still-life Drawing and Painting

Author: Jack Hamm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448115269
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Instructions for drawing and painting still-life art, beginning with basic skills and progressing to advanced techniques.

Sketching People

Author: Jeff Mellem
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1600611508
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Life Lessons: Learn How to Capture a World Constantly in Motion Fluid, fast and expressive life drawing starts here. Step by step, you'll learn to render fleeting gestures from memory, capture expressions simply and more quickly, give your drawing a life of its own with body language, and more. Along the way, you'll develop a more spontaneous approach for successfully working from life. Inside you'll find: • A comprehensive course on drawing from life, based on classic principles • Essential techniques for drawing gesture, figures, clothing, expression, body language and more • Lots of exercises that bring lessons to life The skills you'll learn from this book are so fundamental that every artist will find something in these useful lessons for making the most of all the inspiration that life has to offer.