With this helpful and informative guide; a leading American illustrator offers insights into how serious beginners can become sketch masters. It combines a focus on the nature and importance of technique with practical suggestions for developing drawing skills with a variety of tools; including felt pen; pencil; crayon; brush and ink; charcoal; casein; tempera; and wash.Norman Rockwell praised this book as "a real contribution not only to illustration; but to art." Rockwell and author Robert Fawcett were founding faculty members of the Famous Artists School; a correspondence course that has coached legions of professionals and amateurs. Known as the "Illustrators Illustrator;" Fawcett stresses design and composition in his step-by-step demonstrations; which feature 100 illustrations. His realistic depictions of landscapes and human figures convey solid fundamentals of drawing that every artist; illustrator; student; and hobbyist needs to know.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Not what I expected...By BobbiDustLooking at the photo of this book; I expected much more than what I received. The cover isnt close to being in vibrant color like it is on the site. This is a book about art but none of it is in color. The book is much smaller than I thought it would be. What really disappointment me was that the art included wasnt in color.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A new; messy; wonderful lens to see the Italian RenaissanceBy Cheye CalvoAs a casual observer; I could not understand how Botticellis "Birth of Venus" or "Primavera;" painted just a short period before the so-called High Renaissance; could be so divorced from its naturalism and even a step backwards from Masaccio a half-century before. Christine Joost-Gaugiers terrific book dispels the traditional linear treatment of the Renaissance and provides a more complicated; dynamic; and compelling framework to understand the artistic revolution and to explain how it evolved and was shaped over decades by the tastes of patrons and even geographic location. I read the book over a few months and intermixed it with others as I digested her argument. The books illustrations are small and black-and-white; so it was helpful to have a companion resource to provide larger; color pictures as I explored the analysis. In the end; I left each chapter overjoyed in the way she challenged conventional thinking and found myself returning to her case and re-reading the text to fully follow and appreciate the connections. I dont I agree with her rigid definition of what constitutes Renaissance art and am unwilling to broadly exclude Botticelli and other of more stylized; late-15th century Florence; but her broader points ring true that the true greats of the era (Domenico Veneziano; Pierro della Francesca; Verrocchio; Mantegna; Perugino; Bellini) were the avant garde who stayed true to the new naturalism and who -- while remembered and appreciated today -- were actually the rare exceptions in a sea of traditionalists who clung to medieval ways. I also especially appreciated her analysis of the Medici; despite their humanism; as a force for retro-Gothic; stylized; anti-naturalism who; in effect; corrupted the march of progress and forced true Renaissance artists in the new tradition out of Florence. She also provided a new context to Mannerism that allows greater appreciation. This is an extraordinary work that has helped me to view the Italian Renaissance in a more sophisticated; messy; wonderful way.