Life drawing in charcoal /
Publisher: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971Copyright date: ©1971Description: 159 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:- 0823027651
- 9780823027651
- 082302766X
- 9780823027668
- 027300493X
- 9780273004936
- NC850 .G7
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | NC 850 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0001491 |
Includes index.
Project 1. Materials and exercises -- Charcoal -- Erasers -- Blenders -- Paper -- Fixative -- Project 2. Seeing tonal quality -- Single light effect -- tones and their relationships -- Learning to see the tonal world -- Project 3. The difference between lines and edges -- A new way to observe -- Defining terms -- Using the middle tone -- Project 4. Objects as they are -- Lifting out lights -- Thinking about what you see -- The mind's influence on the eye -- Project 5. The traditional use of plaster cast figures -- Charcoal as a study medium -- Squinting to compare tones -- Project 6. Keying a drawing -- The value scale -- Value keys -- Interpreting tones and their values -- Project 7. Translating color to black and white -- Judging color intensity and tone -- Light and shadow with color -- Project 8. Some basic figure proportions -- Two goals of life study -- Establishing proportions -- Staying loose and free -- Project 9. Keeping the figure from looking stiff -- Examining parts of the body -- Movements of the spine, shoulders, and hips -- The expression of action -- Project 10. Seeing large tonal masses -- Mass versus detail -- Simple statements in tone -- Staying within the large tone -- Project 11. Alignments : constructive aids to correct proportions -- Checking relationships by alignment -- Aligning by triangulation -- Using lines for construction -- Estimating contour angles -- Project 12. The reclining figure -- Using a measuring device -- Proportioning problems -- Project 13. Foreshortening -- Foreshortening as body perspective -- Drawing what you "see" -- Project 14. Idealization or interpretation -- Copying the figure -- Two creative directions -- Project 15. Why study anatomy? -- The burden of anatomical study -- "Seeing" first, anatomy second -- Project 16. Male and female figure distinctions -- Comparison of anatomical differences -- Some standard proportions -- Fat deposits, subcutaneous prominences, and hair -- Project 17. Negative shapes -- Seeing negative shapes -- Using the grid -- Tone mosaics -- Project 18. Two sources of light -- Values and secondary lights -- Reflected light and double contrast -- Geometric poses -- Project 19. A tour of the life class -- Working over the whole figure -- Seeing larger tone masses -- Preconceptions and figure distortions -- Preoccupation with detail -- Self-concepts and figure relationships -- Project 20. Controlling edges -- Textural qualities of edges -- Making hard and soft edges -- Project 21. Sculpturing, modeling, and rhythm -- Modeling for added dimension -- Rhythm and composition -- Constant and progressive rhythms -- Project 22. Movement and muscles -- Controlled falling -- The moving figure -- Arm and leg movements -- Project 23. Drawing the face and positioning the figure -- Placement of facial details -- Composing the figure on the page -- Project 24. Mass drawing in fast action poses -- Warming-up with quick sketches -- Contour and gesture sketches -- Making lines with tonal media -- Project 25. Line drawing: a bonus from the mass approach -- Expressing light and shadow in line -- Tonal drawing as a step to line.
Provides step-by-step illustrated instructions in the art of drawing the human figure.