Figure drawing master class lessons in life drawing
DRAWING & DRAWINGS. Learn to train you hand and mind to represent the human figure in Figure Drawing Master Class. This take-home course covers everything you need to know to put you on the fast-track to successful figure drawings. Author Dan Gheno guides you through the basics with gesture draw...
| Main Author: | Gheno, Dan (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[s.l.] :
North light,
2015.
Cincinnati, Ohio North Light Books, [2015] |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 How to See Form
- To capture the beauty and grace of the human body, view the figure as a collection of planes and shapes, and pay close attention to light, shadows, line quality and the third line
- ch. 2 Training Your Hand
- Drawing skill is a result of hard work, practice and acquirable eye-hand coordination
- not talent
- ch. 3 Action and Gesture
- Find the model s gesture and learn how to use it as a guide in your drawing process
- ch. 4 Making Better Lines
- Master how to portray linework evocatively and combine it with tonal mass to create powerful drawings
- ch. 5 A Portrait of the Hand
- Train your eye to draw hands in a way that allows them to serve as portrait
- almost as important as the face itself
- ch. 6 Dynamic Heads
- Putting life into a head drawing requires assimilating it with the rest of the body, capturing an attitude and using historically dependable techniques to capture a facial likeness
- Note continued: ch. 7 Putting Together the Human Form
- How to analyze and correctly draw different areas of the body, and then bring them all together in one unified form
- ch. 8 Drapery on the Human Form
- Drapery has an anatomy all its own, and the knowledge of it helps you to analyze and draw folds on the human form
- ch. 9 Composing Your Drawings
- Learn how to achieve balance, rhythm and contrast in a drawing
- ch. 10 How to Use Narrative in Your Art
- Discover ways to make your narrative drawings and paintings speak eloquently to the viewer.