Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters by Hale, Robert Beverly -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Contents List of Illustrations Introduction One: Learning to Draw

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

Two: Line

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

Three: Light and Planes

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

Four: Mass

Massing and General Shape Mass and Proportion Mass and Values Line and Mass Mass and Subordination of Detail Inventing Mass Conceptions Illustrations

Five: Position, Thrust, or Direction

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

Six: Artistic Anatomy

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

Seven: Driving All the Horses at Once

The Elements of Drawing Are Interrelated Composition and Perspective Study the History of Art Your Future Growth as an Artist Illustrations

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