All About Techniques in Drawing (All About Techniques Art Series)

As part of the All About Techniques series, this book is among Barron's more advanced art instruction manuals. As the newest in this color-illustrated series, All About Techniques in Drawing will instruct you on how to achieve highly finished illustrations in a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, chalk, and ink. You will also be advised on the uses of various grades of paper and the many different drawing tools and their uses. This volume instructs readers on how to achieve highly finished illustrations in a variety of media. It shows and describes recommended equipment for drawing, both in monochrome and color. Sections that follow demonstrate use of individual media, including pencil, charcoal, colored pencils, pastels, inks, and felt-tip pens. Techniques are applied to a variety of subjects, including still-life's, human figures, landscapes, animals, water scenes, and more. Step-by-step exercises are provided to demonstrate how the author got from a blank sheet of paper to a replication of a famous work of art done in the various mediums