The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing
perspective, 197-209
aerial perspective, 198
drawing, 203-206
eye level, 200
formal perspective,
198-199 horizon line, 200
houses, 244-245
informal perspective,
198-199 measuring, 206-207
one-point perspective,
201 picture plane, 199-202
planes in space,
208-209 three-point perspective,
202 tips for drawing
outdoors, 203 two-point perspective,
201 vanishing points,
200-202 views, 203-204
photography
animal portraiture, 267
landscape drawing, 217
PhotoShop, 333
Phthisic habitus, 276
picture planes, 48-51
building, 48
drawing exercise, 52-53
drawing with, 48-49
grids, setting up, 50-52
historical uses of, 49-50
perspective, 199-202
transferring drawings to
paper, 54-55 visual concepts, 49-50
pitchers, 168
planes in space
(perspec-tive), 208-209
planning lines (drawing still life), 110-111 plastic picture planes, 152 measuring angles, 131 patio doors, 159 political satire, 322-323 portraits, 290-293 animals, 265 setting the scene, 292 practicing, 8, 161
beginning techniques, 85-87
hand and eye warm-ups, 34-35
Palmer Method writing, 33-34
prehistoric drawing, 4 Prendergast, Maurice, 340 primary colors, 329 print (etching/print), 128 print paper, 128
printing images (comput-ers), 332
privacy, 166 problem solving (teaching drawing to children), 310-312
profile/vase-vase/profile drawing exercise, 23-25 proportions, 62
animals, 258-259 body proportion, 278-280
faces, 291 houses, 245 portraits, 288
Q-R
Quark, 333 range, 93-95 rearranging objects for drawing, 166
receding planes (measur-ing angles), 132
reflections, 223
relational right See
right-brain resources for learning to draw, 347-348
reviewing drawings, 151 from a distance, 158 right-brain, 6, 17-18 child development, 19-20
developing in children, 7
drawing exercises, 23-30 profile/vase-vase/ profile, 23-25 right side up/upside down, 26-30 strengthening, 6 teaching children right-brain approach to drawing, 302-303 right side up/upside down drawing exercise, 26-30 right-handedness, 17-18 roads, 230
rough-surfaced paper, 84
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safaris, 265 Sargent, John Singer, 339 scale, 131, 199
animals, 268 people, 296 scanners, 332 sculptures, drawing from, 341
seashells, 182 secondary colors, 329 self-conciousness, 151 self-portraits, 293 shadow colors, 329
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landscapes, 225
tone, 115-118
3-D objects, drawing,
119
chiaroscuro, 119
drawing exercise,
119-122
tonal charts, creating,
116-118
weight, 119
shapes, 67, 119
animals, 258-259
in fabric, 169
faces, 291
flowers, 135
geometric shapes, 86-87
Shapiro, Harry, 343
sharing your work,
341-342
Sheeler, Charles, 338
shipyards, 232
shoes, 170
shrubs, 217
silverware, 167
siting the image, 96
skeletal system, 274
sketchbook journals
See journals
space, 67, 119
landscapes, 215
negative space, 67-68
planes in space
(per-spective), 208-209
Sperry, Roger W., 17
spontaneous drawing, 148
square, 63
squirrels, 189
statues (garden), 188
Stella, Joseph, 338
stencils, 322
still life, 101-102, 155
antique items, 171
bathroom items, 172
bedroom items, 168-170
checklist, 157 composition, 104-106 Golden Section, 105 cubes, 108
cylinders, 109 drawing in boxes, 110 ellipses, 107-108 eye level, 106-108 form, 158
fruit and vegetables, 104
humor, 172 kitchen items, 168 living room items, 171 patios, 174
planning lines, 110-111 reinventing the world, 321
selecting objects for,
101, 104 vantage point, 106 viewpoint, 106 window arrangements, 173
still life space, 94 storing
drawings, 331 materials, 85 story illustrations, 319 structures
houses, 241-242 building materials, 248
cityscapes, 247 countryside, 247-248 details, 245-252 drawing at different times, 243
farmhouses, 250 perspective, 244-245 proportion considera-tions, 245
Victorian, 249
special structures, 232 unusual structures, 251-252
studios, 80 reflecting the artist, 142 styles of drawing through history, 340
surface details, 132 symbolic drawing, 301
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teaching drawing to children
children’s brain devel-opment, 7
drawing exercises, 310-312
encouraging creativity, 304-305
making drawing a positive experience, 307-310
problem solving, 310-312
right-brain approach to drawing, 302-303 visual development, 305
visual learning, 303 techniques, beginning techniques, 85-87 Ten Commandments of Frederick Frank, 344 tertiary colors, 329 textures, 132, 158 animals, 261 therapeutic drawing, 147 three dimensional (3-D), 50
three-point perspective, 202
thumbnail sketches (landscapes), 216 time, finding time to draw, 82
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tones, 115-118, 158-160
3-D objects, drawing,
119 changing tonal range,
161
chiaroscuro, 119
drawing exercise,
119-122 tonal charts, creating,
116-118 weight, 119
tools (garden), 187
travel journals, 144
traveling, 315
trees, 216-217
trompe l’oeil, 198
two dimensional (2-D), 50
two-point perspective,
201
U-V
unusual structures,
drawing, 251-252
van Gogh, Vincent, 197
vanishing points
(per-spective), 200-202
vantage point, 102, 106
vegetables, 185
still life, 104
vehicles, 235-236
vellum surface (paper), 84
vertical orientation
(paper), 92
Victorian houses, 249
viewfinder frames, 59-60,
152-154
drawing with, 63-65
making, 60-62
viewpoint, 102, 106
views, 171
landscapes, 214
plastic picture planes,
159
vines, 220 virtual sketchbooks, 331-333
visual concepts (picture planes), 49-50
visual development, 305 visual learning, 303
W-Z
warm-ups (hand and eye warm-ups), 34-35 water, 223
water-soluble pencils, 129 watercolor paper, 84, 128 waterfronts
animals, 263 special structures, 232 Web sites, 332
Weber, Max, 338 weight, 119 paper, 84 wildflowers, 184, 316 wildlife, 189
window boxes, 187 writing, Palmer Method writing, 33
Wyeth, Andrew, 339 Zen, 148, 342-343
Zen of Seeing, The, 91
zoos, 266