Designed for beginning and amateur artists; this guide to the essentials of drawing features comprehensive; easy-to-follow lessons and more than 500 detailed illustrations. Frank Lohan; a renowned artist and popular instructor; conducts readers through each step of the creative process; from grasping the concepts of perspective and proportion to producing lifelike drawings of a variety of subjectsmdash;landscapes; architecture; animals; flowers; and faces. Step-by-step exercises focus on attaining the fundamentals of composition; visualizing the geometry of the subject; working with perspective; and mastering drawing techniques for both pencil and pen and ink. Each exercise includes gridded outline compositions to help students develop their drawing abilities. Suggestions for the selection and use of tools will assist in achieving professional-quality results.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. classicBy West MurrayThere are the great talents that have lived and he is someone who will always live on. We are all lucky to be able to view his work in a book like this.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. urchins have bodies; clothes; or maybe not in certain placesBy sailing up chit speakWhen Egon Schiele died in Vienna in 1918; Austria had an empire of 30 million people that is about a tenth the size of the United States of America in population today. Vienna was a city in which sexual ideas had an active literary; artistic; and medical history. The legal problems of Klimt and Egon Schiele advertised pathetic desires for urchins as secret obscenities that could be owned by those in the middle class who were aware of what they wanted for their money. One of Schieles drawings was burned in court by a judge who wanted to stop people looking at what they were not supposed to be thinking about. I used to think about the legal questions that were being freed from social repression when little kids at the Minnesota State Veterans Building fountain asked me: could you draw her tit? I wanted to give those kids the best damn picture of tit they had ever seen.Some paintings show a string of blemishes and disarticulation that makes little girls seem like dolls or wooden puppets. Some hands are striking like fingers being bent backwards or split triangulations of a deeper confusion. Some paintings are worth millions of dollars today because art asks the deep questions about what an empire can do with millions of people.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great artist deserves a great bookBy Martin PSchieles paintings are at once vivid and bold; while being obtuse and enigmatic. He managed to catch his subjects in inviting poses while giving them defiant stances or postures; thus empowering them better than almost any other artist Ive encountered. Rather than adhering to aesthetic norms Schiele rather revealed the urges and repulsions that run through us all; thereby revealing our most beautiful and base sides at the same time.This book collects some of Schieles most striking paintings; comprising of some of his greater and lesser known works; and gives a good overview of the artists prolific work. The text is informative but of course the main draw to a book like this is the images; and I found the images to be well laid out and of a high quality.All in all this is a great book and I would recommend to anyone with even a passing interest in this important artist.