Este libro, escrito tanto para principiantes como para pintores experimentados, pretende enseñar las técnicas básicas necesarias para dominar el arte del dibujo, con explicaciones sencillas de los conceptos básicos y con muchos ejercicios y ejemplos claros.
EL libro está organizado cómo si de una clase de dibujo de las que se imparten en las academias de arte se tratara, partiendo de un nivel de dificultad bajo. En otras palabras, enseña a dibujar desde la base, mostrando claramente las técnicas más elementales y progresando de la misma manera que lo hace un dibujo.
Está dividido en tres secciones:
‘Aprender haciendo’, donde el aprendizaje del dibujo comienza con la práctica real de un ejercicio y se intenta superar los retos que presenta el dibujo.
‘Análisis’, donde se estudia el trabajo de otros artistas profesionales para ver cómo han resuelto con éxito ciertos efectos en sus dibujos.
‘Cuaderno’, que nos permite examinar cada uno de los efectos y aplicaciones realizados durante los ejercicios, analizándolos individualmente.
En definitiva, se trata de un curso completo de dibujo en un volumen, en el que los principiantes aprenderán a utilizar este medio de expresión artística, mientras que los artistas experimentados dispondrán de una herramienta útil para practicar, con nuevos consejos que les ayudará a mejorar su práctica del dibujo, y nuevos trucos y efectos que podrán incorporar a su repertorio.
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Contents
Introduction
1. The Basics of Drawing
Getting to Know the Materials
Choosing the Support
CONTROLLING THE FORM
Different Ways of Blocking In
Controlling the Line
Geometric Approach
Proportion
Establishing Measurements
Composition
Analyzing Composition and Layout
A Different Layout
Foreshortening
Simultaneous Points of View
LIGHT AND CONTRAST
Drawing Shadows
Block Shading
Values
The Tonal Range of a Drawing
Gradations
The Effect of Volume
Modeling
Practicing Gradations
Detailed Chiaroscuro Drawing
Contrast
The Effects of Chiaroscuro
THE THIRD DIMENSION
Drawing Depth
Model and Background in a Still Life
Different Planes
Atmospheric Perspective
Urban Landscape in Perspective
Perspective Tricks
Atmosphere: Gradation and Blending
Textures in Perspective
2. Line and Shading in Drawing
Learning to See: Learning to See Form
Basic Lines: Learning the Basic Lines
MASTERY OF LINES
Linear Drawing
The Energy of Lines
The Value of Lines
Modulated Drawing
The Variability of Lines
Line, Space, and Intuition
Urban Landscape Using Scribbles
Usefulness of Scribbling
Spiral Lines
Shading with Lines
Hatching
Scratchboard Drawing
Architecture with Ornamental Lines
Drawing Hatchings with a Ruler
Playing with Lines
Linear Rural Landscape
BUILDING UP WITH TONE
Block Shading Using Three Colors
Cubist Shading
Controlling the Tones of the Drawing
Silhouetting Light Tones
Trees in the Landscape with Grays
Shading and Contrast
Building Form with Tone
An Interior Scene Using Shading
Shading with Pastel (in the style of Seurat)
COMBINING SHADING AND LINES
Contours of Shading
The Logic of Light
Drawing with Pigment and a Cloth
Drawing a Façade: Line over Tone
Tone Gradation
Rendering Rocks with Lines and Shading
Structuring Shadows
3. Light and Shadow in Drawing
Shadow as an Element of Construction
Shadow as a Pictorial Category
THE EFFECT OF LIGHT
Contrast as a Tool of Expression
Values Guidelines
The Light Source
Still Life with Natural Light
Indoor Scene with Artificial Light
Projected Shadows
Division by Tonal Areas
A System of Tonal Designations
Tonal Designations: A Crumpled Piece of Paper
SHADOW AS STRUCTURE
Negative Spaces
Guidelines for Shading
Shading with Charcoal
Combining Line and Shadow
Shading with the Hands
Diffuse Shading
Landscape with Sfumato
SHADING TECHNIQUES
Modeling
Volume Through Chiaroscuro
Mastering Gradation
Hatching as Shadow
Types of Shading
Modeling with Sanguine
A Drape in Chiaroscuro
A Tenebrist Still Life
THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT
Sketching with Light
Tonal Drawing on Colored Paper
Backlighting in Landscape
Highlighting and Three-dimensionality
Erasure Techniques
Lightening
Interior in White Pencil
Drawing in White
4. Perspective Drawing
Perspective as a Tool for Drawing
Creating the Space
LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
Central Perspective
A Wooden Bridge
Vanishing Lines and Parallel Perspective
Drawing Boxes
Façade with Window and Door
Oblique Perspective
Drawing an Interior
The Corner of a House
Castle with Rectangles and Cylinders
Cylinders, Ellipses, and Circular Objects
Vanishing Points Outside the Drawing and Side Measurements
Aerial Perspective, Looking Upward
SOLUTIONS AND RESOURCES
A Street in Perspective
Perspective of the Rooftops
Inclined Surfaces and Steps
Drawing Stairs
A Bridge with Arches
Texture Gradient and the Center of Perspective
Interior of a Market
Angular Perspective
Forced and Exaggerated Perspective
An Octagonal Fountain
Perspective of Reflections
Shadows in Perspective
DEPTH WITHOUT LINES
Depth Effects with Color
Composition and Depth in Landscapes
The Human Figure in the Distance
Landscape with Chinese Perspective
Atmospheric Effect in the Distance
Landscape with Gradations
Textures in Perspective
Gradations, Lines, Soft Focus, and Transparencies
Perspective of a Cloister
Scenic Perspective
Glossary
Despre autor
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