Start Drawing Landscapes

Start Drawing Landscapes
Author: Markus S. Agerer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre:
ISBN:

This book is all about the topic of drawing landscapes. Learn how to sketch and create your own landscapes on paper. For this purpose, the book teaches three basic blocks: Basics of drawing, perspective representation and composition. In order to be able to depict your own landscapes effectively, you will also learn in this book how to draw the most important elements of a landscape - e.g. trees, buildings, water and more. Step-by-step instructions for complete landscapes will help you to learn and improve your skills. You will also learn more about the origin and development of landscape representation in the visual arts.

Start Sketching & Drawing Now

Start Sketching & Drawing Now
Author: Grant Fuller
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440309298

A complete course for the can't-wait-to-get-started beginner! Got the urge to draw? What are you waiting for?! Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3 with Grant Fuller's Start Sketching & Drawing Now! Packed full of easy and fun techniques, readers will learn to create accurate and expressive likenesses of people, animals, landscapes, and objects. Suddenly rendering even something as mundane as an electrical plug will become an adventure in seeing—and as you'll discover, learning how to really see your subject is half the battle. A progressive series of lessons range from proven exercises for developing hand-eye coordination, expressive line work and keen powers of observation, to creating the illusion of depth and dimension, realistic textures, reflections and more 30 step-by-step demonstrations cover an exciting range of subjects, including still lifes, landscapes, architecture, animals and people Graphite pencil is the featured medium, but charcoal, pen & ink, colored pencils and pastels are also explored Practice is important, of course, but this expert instruction will fast forward you past many hours of trial, error and frustration. With every lesson you'll develop skills and confidence. Get started today with simple materials you may already have or can easily pick up at any major retailer. Before you know it, you'll be able to capture a wide range of subjects with artistic style and vision.

Drawing: People with William F. Powell

Drawing: People with William F. Powell
Author: William F. Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633227979

Learn to create detailed, realistic drawings of people in graphite pencil from basic shapes. Successfully drawing people is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, artistic experiences. Drawing: People shows you how to capture the unique characteristics of people in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, placing proportionate features, and shading to develop form and realism. With more than 40 step-by-step projects to both re-create and admire, artist William F. Powell teaches artists how to develop a portrait drawing to its fullest. He explores basic drawing techniques as well as art concepts that apply to drawing people, including proportion, perspective, and composition. This book includes in-depth information on how to render facial features, heads from various angles, and the figure in action, step by step. With this helpful guide, you'll even discover specific tips and tricks for drawing individual body parts, such as eyes, ears, noses, lips, hands, and feet. And the wealth of beautiful, inspiring examples ensure that Drawing: People will be a welcome addition to any artist’s drawing reference library. Drawing people can be tricky, but with this step-by-step guide, you’ll be rendering realistic portraits in no time. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: People allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

Drawing the Landscape

Drawing the Landscape
Author: Chip Sullivan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118454812

This elegant Fourth Edition of Chip Sullivan's classic Drawing the Landscape shows how to use drawing as a path towards understanding the natural and built environment. It offers guidance for tapping into and exploring personal creative potential and helps readers master the essential principles, tools, and techniques required to prepare professional graphic representations in landscape architecture and architecture. It illustrates how to create a wide range of graphic representations using step-by-step tutorials, exercises and hundreds of samples.

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner
Author: Mark Willenbrink
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440323356

Have you ever experienced the peace of walking through the woods or the excitement of a storm gathering on a beach? Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner will help you capture these moments in artwork and share them others. In their fun and friendly teaching style, Mark and Mary Willenbrink offer a great beginner's course on drawing nature, showing you how to realistically capture the world around you. All you need to get started are some simple supplies, basic techniques, and inspiration. From field to forest, beach or mountain, begin with a structural sketch, apply values and textures, and, before you know it, you'll be drawing everything you see. You'll even learn how to render favorite wildlife such as chipmunks, deer and eagles! • Follow along with easy step-by-step demonstrations to draw rocks, seashells, butterflies and even more developed nature scenes. • Gain a working understanding of key concepts such as perspective, value and composition. • Discover simple tools and tips you can use right away to improve your art.

Landscape Drawing in Pencil

Landscape Drawing in Pencil
Author: Frank M. Rines
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486140571

DIVConcise and beautifully illustrated, this guide covers the basics of holding the pencil, applying different strokes, shading, perspective, and the rendering of different materials, as well as composition and drawing from nature. 36 illustrations. /div

Drawing Scenery: Seascapes and Landscapes

Drawing Scenery: Seascapes and Landscapes
Author: Jack Hamm
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1988-09-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780399508066

The how-to handbook that exactly explains and illustrates the step-by-step processes for drawing complete, succesful landscapes and seascapes and teaches the fundamentals of good composition as well as the separate picture elements. This guide combines the simplest kind of scenery sketching with the most complex renderings to give every artist, beginner or professional, essential scenery drawing techniques. More than 900 diagrams, pictorial explanations, and pictures

Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing

Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing
Author: Suzanne Brooker
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0399580662

This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media. Following in the footsteps of author, artist, and art instructor Suzanne Brooker's previous title The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, this book pairs the most universally-pursued topic for artists (drawing) with the popular subject matter of the natural landscape. Brooker breaks down landscapes into their various elements--including the earth, water, air, and trees--to convey how the fundamentals of drawing are applied to capture each aspect. Using the graphite pencil as her baseline instrument, Brooker provides you with step-by-step lessons that help you improve your rendering skills and re-create the beauty of the world outdoors. Examples from art history and contemporary masters supplement these lessons. The end result is a drawing instruction book that provides artists with everything they need to render landscapes no matter their skill level.

Drawing Anatomy

Drawing Anatomy
Author: Barrington Barber
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-10-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1788885880

The ability to draw the human figure well is the sign of a good artist. So it is vital to appreciate the body's characteristics and how they influence posture and expression. Drawing Anatomy provides all the information you need to produce the most accurate representations of people. In Drawing Anatomy, teacher and artist Barrington Barber begins his exploration of this area of art by explaining what the body is made of and then reviews each section of the human figure in detail in separate chapters. • Explains how the body changes with age • Reveals how to portray the body in motion • Teaches how features such as eyes and mouths can vary • Includes information on Latin anatomical names and how they describe different parts of the body

How to Sketch Landscapes

How to Sketch Landscapes
Author: Liron Yanconsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2016-07-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535163064

Do you want to start sketching landscapes, TODAY? Do you always doodle on every available paper on sight? Did you never get the chance to FINALLY commit to sketching and drawing?If you answered yes, then HOW TO SKETCH LANDSCAPES is a the book you need!Inside you'll find great theoretical and practical advice on sketching, as well as quick and simple landscape sketching exercises. Liron is a great believer in the "anyone can do it" approach, and this belief resides in every chapter and page of this book.Inside HOW TO SKETCH LANDSCAPES you will find:- The basic mindset for SKETCHING- The basics of sketching (practical tips)- Landscape Sketching exercises: nature and urban- Liron's super personal approach to teaching sketching Get your copy TODAY and finally learn how to sketch landscapes! Note: How to Sketch Landscapes is based on Liron's book: "How to Sketch". Some contents overlap.