Drawing.for.Dummies.2nd.edition

Sections

Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
What You’re Not to Read
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: Discovering What It Takes to Draw
Part II: Developing the Basic Skills
Part III: Experimenting with Subject Matter
Part IV: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1
Testing the Waters: Do You Have What It Takes to Draw?
Debunking the talent myth
Embracing your individuality
Looking back at the first drawings
Surveying current drawing trends
Examining the Motivation behind Drawing
Finding uses for drawing
Considering the benefits of drawing
Outfitting Yourself for the Job
Discovering Your Artistic Style
Practicing Sustainable Drawing Habits
Acquiring essential skills
Implementing an effective order of operations
Adapting to ambiguity
Exploring Your Drawing Preferences
Holding your drawing media
Making marks with your preferred medium
Finding Inspiration
Figuring out your interests
Getting ideas from other artists’ works (and yours, too!)
Drawing on your memories
Carving Out Space and Time to Draw
Making your drawing space comfy and effective
Finding time for drawing
Using Your Sketchbook
Sketching away from home
Playing with ideas
Choosing Your Drawing Supplies
The necessities
Sketchbook
Pencils
Erasers
Pencil sharpener
Rulers
Charcoal
Spray fixative
Portfolio
The wish-list items
Project: The Pupil of Iris
Stage 1: Looking for Lines
Stage 2: Moving from Lines to Shapes
Stage 3: Adding a Third Dimension with Volume
Using perspective to create depth
Building light and volume through shading
Stage 4: Rendering Textures
Stage 5: Arranging the Elements: Composition
Considering the Benefits of Drawing Digitally
Working with a digital canvas
Appreciating the power of Undo
Saving versions of your drawings
Sharing your artwork
Becoming more flexible in your drawing process
Checking the Hardware You Need to Draw Digitally
Exploring Digital Drawing Software
Free downloadable drawing tools
Entry-level and affordable art software
Professional-level software
Joining the World of Online Drawing
Building a gallery on art community Web sites
Creating a personal online portfolio
Experiencing interactive online drawing
Gaining insight from the Internet
Using traditional step-by-step tutorials
Watching replays of drawings
Viewing videos from artists across the Web
Getting Started with Digital Drawing
Getting familiar with your digital tools
Creating rough sketches
Understanding layers
Project: Creating Your First Digital Drawing
A New Kind of Seeing: Getting Familiar with the Artist’s Perspective
Waking Up the Right Side of Your Brain
Flipping between the left and right sides of your brain
Striking balance with symmetry
Controlling the left-to-right flip
Giving your left brain a vacation
Exploring the World as an Artist
Finding fun drawing subjects right in front of you
Seeing your home from a whole new perspective
Surveying your neighborhood and beyond
Discovering the Inner Eye of the Artist
Comparing right- and left-brain perceptions
Doodling with doodles
Project: A Doodle of Your Own
Putting down the lines
Seeing beyond the lines
Creating drawings from doodles
Focusing on the Elements of Composition
Emphasizing the focal point
Overlapping for unity and depth
Taking advantage of negative shapes
Using lines to your advantage
Creating a functional eye path
Breaking down static and dynamic lines
Balancing subjects in a composition
Considering contrast: Balancing values and shapes
Delegating proportions to your subjects
Considering Basic Composition Formulas
The rule of thirds
Compositions with S-O-U-L
“S” composition
“O” composition
“U” composition
“L” composition
Using a Few Drawing Tools to Help You Plan Your Compositions
Choosing your composition by framing the subject
Planning a composition from a photograph
Project: Planning a Composition
Getting Comfortable with Lines
Appreciating Diversity in Lines
Lining up straight lines
Using straight lines to create line drawings
Cutting corners with angled lines
Following the flow of curved lines
Capturing Gesture
Focusing on Proportions and Shapes
Breaking objects into simple shapes
Fixing proportion problems
Comparing positive and negative shapes
Measuring one dimension against another
Project: Using Lines and Shapes as Tools for Investigation
Seeing Light and Shadows and Using Values to Represent Them
Taking a closer look at light and shadows
Exploring contrast in a drawing
Squinting to translate vision into values
Seeing simple value shapes
Turning colors into values
Taking Shapes into the Third Dimension
From squares to cubes
From rectangles and triangles to boxes, cylinders, and cones
From circles to spheres
Project: Drawing a Sphere
Using Additive Drawing Techniques to Build Value
Creating continuous tone
Trying your hand at hatching and crosshatching
Drawing hatching lines
Drawing crosshatching lines
Scaling from light to dark
Rendering graduated values
Using Your Eraser to Build Value
Applying Shading to Your Drawings
Blocking in your basic values
Refining your values
Project: Drawing an Egg
Identifying Textures
Smooth, matte, shiny, and glistening textures
Fuzzy and fluffy textures
Furry and hairy textures
Rough and grassy textures
Translating Textures into Drawings
Planning your textured drawing
Creating texture on paper
Project: Creating Two Fun Textures
Sketching with textural mark making
Drawing furry spots
Understanding Geometric Perspective
Looking to the horizon line
Finding vanishing points
Finding a horizon line and vanishing point in real life
Expanding on Elements of Perspective
Incorporating atmospheric perspective into your drawings
Managing foreshortening
Project: Drawing One-Point Perspective
Project: Drawing Two-Point Perspective
Project: Drawing Three-Point Perspective
Project: Blasting into Space with Dynamic Perspective Drawing
Selecting Subjects for Still-Life Drawings
Choosing still-life subjects that are meaningful to you
Grouping still-life objects
Enjoying the challenge of transparent objects
Arranging Your Still Life
Lighting Your Still Life
Project: Drawing a Still Life
Exploring Sky and Land
Capturing different skies and clouds on paper
Examining and drawing trees
Drawing distant trees
Sketching nearby individual trees
Creating convincing flowers
Drawing groups of flowers
Focusing on individual flowers
Project: Using Your Eraser to Create a White Winter
Project: Lovely Lily
Rendering Furry and Feathered Textures
Identifying the long and short of fur
Drawing short fur
Rendering long fur
Using fur to reveal underlying form
Drawing wings and feathers
Capturing Life in Animal Portraits
Project: Wings on the Water
Drawing the Body
Examining superficial human anatomy
Measuring proportion
Capturing gesture
Building the body from simple shapes
Using contour lines to refine your drawing
Picking up Portraiture
Measuring proportions for the head and face
Drawing facial features
The nose knows no bounds
Put your money where your mouth is
All ears
Drawing hair that actually appears to grow out of the head
Drawing Far-Off Figures and People in Motion
Drawing people and crowds in the distance
Drawing figures in motion
Project: Crowd at the Finish Line
Coming Up with an Idea
Embracing Your Influences without Losing Yourself
Making Decisions with Your Idea in Mind
Choosing the Right Materials
Setting Up a Place to Draw
Sketching Your Idea
Evaluating Your Sketch
Planning Your Values
Cleaning Up Your Drawing
Inking Your Work
Step into Art Appreciation
Experiment with Drawing Media
Figure Out Who You Are as an Artist
Investigate Different Drawing Styles
Work from Life and Photographs
Attend Art Classes, Lessons, and Workshops
Give Painting a Try
Ignite Your Sparks of Creativity
Put Your Drawings on the Internet
Look for Other Ways to Get Your Work Out There
What Is Copyright?
What Kinds of Works Are Protected by Copyright?
When Is an Artwork Not Original?
Can I Draw from Copyrighted Images?
If I Make Changes to a Copyrighted Image, Can I Make It My Own?
Can I Draw from the Illustrations in This Book?
How Do I Claim Copyright to My Original Art?
How Can I Prove That I Own Copyright?
Can I Put a Copyright © Symbol on My Original Art?
How Do I Use the Copyright © Symbol?
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