Chapter One: The Meeting 2 Chapter Two: Drawing What You See 11 Chapter Three: Shading 27 Chapter Four: Beginning With A Loose Sketch 40 Chapter Five: Understanding Light and Shadow 54 Chapter Six: Using Negative Space 68 Chapter Seven: Checking Proportions 78 Chapter Eight: Simplifying Things 87 Chapter Nine: Creating A Composition 98 Chapter Ten: Bringing It All Together 110 Chapter Eleven: Moving On 126 Epilogue 134 My goal with this book is to give you the next best thing: some sense of what it's like to meet a drawing expert and to have a series of lessons at his or her side. There's no shortage of instructional art books in the world; I've made a few of them myself. But I wanted to see if crucial lessons about drawing could be woven into an actual narrative. So, I set out to create a story that would give you vicariously the experience of having a mentor--one that can make you feel as if you are the one having your mistakes corrected, as if you are being told what to do and how to do it. So, please turn the page, meet young David, and follow him on his drawing journey. I hope his story gives you some sense of what it's like to have a drawing mentor. Mentors are not always gentle, and they certainly aren't there just to be your personal cheerleader. But a mentor can truly change the way you see the world, and in so doing change your life altogether. Excerpted from The Drawing Mentor: An Illustrated Story That Teaches You How to Draw by Mark Crilley All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
