Cutting A Mount
Cutting your own mounts is relatively simple, but requires a little practice and good tools. You will need a cutting mat, a steel ruler, and a specialized cutter with its blade at a 45 angle. Window mount The beveled edge of the cardboard mount creates a step into the drawing. By taking this step, the viewer becomes complicit in the illusion. The mount tightens the presentation and keeps the glass of the frame away from the drawn surface. The drawing is trapped by the mount edge. The natural...
Pastel And Pen Marks
Rolling a pastel stick across the paper leaves an uneven, almost organic mark, very well suited to drawing natural forms. Pushing a pastel across the surface leaves a tapered mark that can imply recession into the distance away from the point of origin. Cross-hatching with an ink pen creates an even yet lively tonal surface. Repeated passes can represent the densest shadows. Rolling a pastel stick across the paper leaves an uneven, almost organic mark, very well suited to drawing natural forms....
Different Media
Every medium has its own qualities for example, colored pencil makes delicate marks, while ink and brush creates fluid, gestural lines. Clarify your intentions before deciding upon your media do you want to make a drawing that is analytical, emotional, allusive, or descriptive However, trust your intuition there's nothing to stop you making an emotionally-charged image in pen and ink. Colored pencil - used for this study of Brussels sprouts drawn centrally on toned paper - allows for fine...
Reallife Perspective
In some drawings, the vanishing points may be off the page construction lines may still help with building the image. Vanishing points only occur if parallel lines are present in a scene. Many natural scenes have no - or only weak - parallel lines. Geometric perspective as used today was developed in Italy in the early 1400s, when Renaissance artist Filippo Brunelleschi painted the outlines of buildings on to mirrors, and observed that all the lines converged on the horizon. Before this...
Reflection And Translucency
Glass and metallic objects especially those with curved surfaces have complex interactions with light and their surroundings. Space becomes distorted, so don't trust your assumptions concentrate and closely examine the subject. Always begin with an accurate outline of the form you need to be sure that proportions and outlines are all correct before shading. Glass and metal objects are defined by the way in which they reflect and refract light, rather than by their surface color or texture....
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AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to the Norwich School of Art and Design for supporting this book in a variety of ways, especially through the generous use of studio space and access to the School's drawing collection. Thanks also to Kurt and Rodney for their very practical support during the photo sessions at the School. Finally I would like to acknowledge the support of Chris and Louie for their patience and help during the making of this book. PRODUCER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many thanks to Maddy...
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LONDON, NEW YORK, MELBOURNE, MUNICH, DELHI Project Editor Kathryn Wilkinson Project Art Editor Anna Plucinska Production Editor Sharon McGoldrick Managing Editor Julie Oughton Managing Art Editor Christine Keilty Production Controller Linda Dare US Editor Meg Leder Photography Andy Crawford Produced for Dorling Kindersley by Art Editors Rebecca Johns, Paul Reid Project Editor Marek Walisiewicz First American Edition, 2007 Published in the United States by DK Publishing 375 Hudson Street New...
Scale Issues
Drawings smaller than A3 11.7x16.5 in size can comfortably be completed while you are seated at a desk larger drawings should be made standing, with the paper attached to an easel or a wall. This will enable you to reach all parts of the drawn area without stretching, giving you full control over the marks you make, and also eliminate any distortion introduced by the low viewing perspective when drawing seated. Drawings of buildings are vulnerable to distortion caused by the working position....
