The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing
planning lines (drawing perspective, 197-209 receding planes (measur- still life), 110-111 ing angles), 132
reflections, 223 relational right. See right- brain plastic picture planes, 152 measuring angles, 131 patio doors, 159 aerial perspective, 198 drawing, 203-206 eye level, 200 formal perspective, resources for learning to 198-199 draw, 347-348
reviewing drawings, 151 from a distance, 158 political satire, 322-323 portraits, 290-293 animals, 265 setting the scene, 292 horizon line, 200 houses, 244-245 informal perspective, right-brain, 6, 17-18 198-199 practicing, 8, 161 child development, beginning techniques, 19-20 85-87 measuring, 206-207 one-point perspective, developing in children, 201 hand and eye warm- 7 ups, 34-35 drawing exercises, 23-30 Palmer Method writing, picture plane, 199-202 planes in space, 33-34 208-209 profile/vase-vase/ profile, 23-25 three-point perspective, right side up/upside 202
tips for drawing outdoors, 203 down, 26-30 strengthening, 6 teaching children right- two-point perspective, 201 prehistoric drawing, 4 Prendergast, Maurice, 340 primary colors, 329 print (etching/print), 128 print paper, 128 printing images (comput- vanishing points, 200-202 views, 203-204 photography
ers), 332 privacy, 166 problem solving (teaching drawing to children), 310-312 brain approach to drawing, 302-303 right side up/upside down drawing exercise, 26-30 right-handedness, 17-18 roads, 230 rough-surfaced paper, 84 animal portraiture, 267 landscape drawing, 217 profile/vase-vase/profile drawing exercise, 23-25 proportions, 62
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PhotoShop, 333 Phthisic habitus, 276 picture planes, 48-51 animals, 258-259 body proportion,
278-280 faces, 291 houses, 245 portraits, 288
safaris, 265 Sargent, John Singer, 339 scale, 131, 199 animals, 268 people, 296 scanners, 332 sculptures, drawing from, building, 48 drawing exercise, 52-53 drawing with, 48-49 grids, setting up, 50-52 historical uses of, 49-50 perspective, 199-202 transferring drawings to 341
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paper, 54-55 visual concepts, 49-50 Quark, 333
pitchers, 168 planes in space (perspec- range, 93-95 rearranging objects for tive), 208-209 drawing, 166 seashells, 182 secondary colors, 329 self-conciousness, 151 self-portraits, 293 shadow colors, 329
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bedroom items, shadows, 188 168-170 special structures, 232 unusual structures, landscapes, 225 tone, 115-118 251-252 studios, 80 3-D objects, drawing, checklist, 157 composition, 104-106 Golden Section, 105 119 reflecting the artist, 142 styles of drawing through history, 340 chiaroscuro, 119 drawing exercise, 119-122 surface details, 132 symbolic drawing, 301 tonal charts, creating,
116-118 weight, 119
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shapes, 67, 119 cubes, 108 cylinders, 109 drawing in boxes, 110 ellipses, 107-108 eye level, 106-108 form, 158 fruit and vegetables, 104 teaching drawing to children children’s brain devel- opment, 7 drawing exercises, animals, 258-259 in fabric, 169 faces, 291 flowers, 135 geometric shapes, 86-87 310-312 encouraging creativity, Shapiro, Harry, 343 sharing your work, humor, 172 kitchen items, 168 living room items, 171 patios, 174 planning lines, 110-111 reinventing the world, 304-305 341-342 321 making drawing a selecting objects for, 101, 104 positive experience, 307-310 problem solving, 310-312 vantage point, 106 viewpoint, 106 window arrangements, right-brain approach to 173
drawing, 302-303 visual development, still life space, 94 storing Sheeler, Charles, 338 shipyards, 232 shoes, 170 shrubs, 217 silverware, 167 siting the image, 96 skeletal system, 274 sketchbook journals. 305
drawings, 331 materials, 85 See journals space, 67, 119 visual learning, 303 techniques, beginning techniques, 85-87 story illustrations, 319 structures Ten Commandments of Frederick Frank, 344 houses, 241-242 landscapes, 215 negative space, 67-68 planes in space (per- spective), 208-209 building materials, 248 tertiary colors, 329 textures, 132, 158 animals, 261
therapeutic drawing, 147 three dimensional (3-D), 50 cityscapes, 247 countryside, 247-248 details, 245-252 drawing at different times, 243 three-point perspective, 202
thumbnail sketches (landscapes), 216 farmhouses, 250 perspective, 244-245 proportion considera- time, finding time to Sperry, Roger W., 17 spontaneous drawing, 148 square, 63 squirrels, 189 statues (garden), 188 Stella, Joseph, 338 stencils, 322 still life, 101-102, 155 antique items, 171 bathroom items, 172 draw, 82 tions, 245 Victorian, 249
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vines, 220 virtual sketchbooks, tones, 115-118, 158-160 3-D objects, drawing, 331-333 119 visual concepts (picture changing tonal range, planes), 49-50 161
visual development, 305 visual learning, 303 chiaroscuro, 119 drawing exercise, 119-122 tonal charts, creating,
116-118 weight, 119
W-Z warm-ups (hand and eye
warm-ups), 34-35
water, 223 water-soluble pencils, 129 watercolor paper, 84, 128 waterfronts
tools (garden), 187 travel journals, 144 traveling, 315 trees, 216-217 trompe l’oeil, 198 two dimensional (2-D), 50 two-point perspective, animals, 263 special structures, 232 201
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Web sites, 332 Weber, Max, 338 weight, 119 paper, 84
unusual structures, drawing, 251-252
wildflowers, 184, 316 wildlife, 189 window boxes, 187 writing, Palmer Method van Gogh, Vincent, 197 vanishing points (per- spective), 200-202 writing, 33 Wyeth, Andrew, 339
Zen, 148, 342-343 Zen of Seeing, The, 91 zoos, 266
vantage point, 102, 106 vegetables, 185 still life, 104 vehicles, 235-236 vellum surface (paper), 84 vertical orientation (paper), 92
Victorian houses, 249 viewfinder frames, 59-60, 152-154
drawing with, 63-65 making, 60-62 viewpoint, 102, 106 views, 171
landscapes, 214 plastic picture planes, 159
