Sketch Book for the Artist

PAPERS Papers differ in thickness (weight), size, texture, color; absorbency, Ph, and cost. They are hand-, mold-, or machine ma ...

INTRODUCTION Posture and Grip To DRAW WELL, your whole relaxed body should be involved. In this book we will look at parallels b ...

Unfamiliarity:The habitual movements of our handwriting style will sometimes infringe upon our drawing. To stop this, find an un ...

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Animals JOHN WHITE British artist, cartographer, and pioneer born c. 1540. On the Roanoke voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh, White's ...

ANIMALS Documentaries DURER'S RHINOCEROS AND STUBBS'S skeletal horse are superb affirmations of the power of drawing as a record ...

GEORGE STUBBS British equine and society portrait painter, naturalist, and anatomist. Stubbs was one of the first European artis ...

ANIMALS Presence and Mood THESE DRAWINGS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN to show two very different ways of picturing a wild animal. Hugo mixed ...

THEODORE GERICAULT Controversial, fiery, short-lived French Romantic painter and lithographer Largely self-taught; horses were a ...

Movement MOVEMENT IS OFTEN THE CHARACTERISTIC by which we identify an animal: the fast cheetah, slow tortoise, flapping bird, or ...

PAUL KLEE Swiss painter; sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, violinist, and teacher at the Bauhaus school. With his drawings Klee b ...

ANIMALS Icon and Design IN THESE TWO MANUSCRIPTS we discover diagrammatic drawings of animals that are each held tightly in a su ...

JOHANN KNOPF Outline and tone The blackbirds illuminating this frantic An "Outsider" artist who suffered from mental manuscript ...

ANIMALS Pen and Ink WITH A HANDFUL OF FEATHERS, sticks, and metal points, you can have great fun drawing the world around you. I ...

Four types of ink were common before the 20th century, and are still in use today: carbon (Chinese and Indian), iron-gall, bistr ...

ANIMALS Drawing With Ink To MAKE A QUILL OR REED PEN, keep all your fingers behind the blade and cut away from you. Practice to ...

METAL PENS Metal pens give long, sharp, clean strokes, withstanding great pressure without sticking, breaking, or being ruined a ...

ANIMALS Capturing Character GEESE ARE EXCELLENT SUBJECTS to draw when practicing the first use of pen and ink. It happens that g ...

Action With growing confidence, look among the birds for more complicated actions such as shaking off water, running, flapping, ...

ANIMALS Sleeping Dogs RAS WAS A GREAT CHARACTER, a dog who was always engaged in his and everyone else's business. The only time ...