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First Paperback Edition, 2009
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CONTENTS
Foreword 6
Introduction 8
Drawing Books and Papers 20
Posture and Grip 22
Animals 24
Documentaries 26
Presence and Mood 28
Movement 30
Icon and Design 32
Pen and Ink 34
Drawing with Ink 36
Capturing Character 38
Sleeping Dogs 40
Turtles 42
Dry Birds 44
Plants and Gardens 46
Botanical Studies 48
Jeweled Gardens 50
Fast Trees 52
Graphite and Erasers 54
Cropping and Composition 56
Negative Space 58
Fig Tree 60
Summer Flowers 62
Acanthus Spinosus 64
Architecture 66
Master Builders 68
The Order of Sound 70
Future Fictions 72
Pathways of Sight 74
Single-Point Perspective 76
Creating an Imaginary Space 78
Further Aspects of
Perspective 80
Theaters 82
Venetian Life 84
Parisian Street 86
Objects and
Instruments 88
Still Life 90
Instruments of Vision 92
Bench Marks 94
Light and Illusions 96
Further Illusions 98
How to Draw Ellipses 100
Tonality 102
Drawing with Wire 104
Artifacts and Fictions 106
The Body 108