CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Ideas Are Communicated by Symbols
Forms: Their Shape, Lighting, and Position
Practicing Lines
Basic Geometric Forms
Context and Juxtaposition
Learning to Think in Many-Shaped Boxes
ILLUSTRATIONS
Outer Edges
Plane Meets Plane
Color Meets Color
Value Meets Value
Line Explains Shape
Contour Lines
Lines Suggest Changing Values
Line Has Many Functions
ILLUSTRATIONS
Importance of Light
Light on Planes
Color and Values
Light and Three Dimensional Form
Gray to Highlight to Dark to Reflected Light
Interrelationship of Basic Forms
Values on Interior Planes and Interior Curved Surfaces
Learning Values
Cast Shadows
Inventing Your Own Sources of Light
How Light Can Destroy Form
Jumping Light
Violation of Light and Dark Planes
Reversal of Values
Violation of Highlights
Line Carries Light and Shade
One Form in Front of Another
Reflected Light
Light and Direction
The Artist Controls Light
Decisions You Must Make
ILLUSTRATIONS
Massing and General Shape
Mass and Proportion
Mass and Values
Line and Mass
Mass and Subordination of Detail
Inventing Mass Conceptions
ILLUSTRATIONS
Determining Thrust
Problems in Determining Thrust
Forms in Motion
The Model is Always Moving
Values and Direction of Form
Thrust and Line
Position and True Shape
Thrust and Drapery
ILLUSTRATIONS
Drawing Without the Model
Learning Anatomy
Bones Determine Bodily Forms
Please Buy Some Bones
Origin and Insertion of Muscles
The Evolutionary Approach
Gravity and the Four-Footed Animal
Gravity and Man
Further Results of Standing Erect
The Importance of Function
Functional Groups
Lines Divide Functional Groups
Anatomical Sins
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Elements of Drawing Are Interrelated
Composition and Perspective
Study the History of Art
Your Future Growth as an Artist
ILLUSTRATIONS
Index