ULTIMATE BOOK OF DRAWING AND ILLUSTRATION

A complete step-by-step guide, this comprehensive manual covers essential drawing skills for beginner and improver alike, emphasising the development of a personal drawing style and demystifying different processes and skills. Peter Gray shows how to adjust your drawings to create cartoons and caricatures, how to play with proportions, introduce texture, the three-point perspective, framing and selection, and using marker pens, tonal brush drawing, sketching with wash, the sophisticated transparent media using glazes or washes, aerial perspective, working in charcoal, and basic shading and hatching. Making faces, anthropomorphism with animals fully clothed and performing human tasks, decorative illustration to make friezes, borders, collated composition placing people or animals from photographs together and further possibilities arise when you consider the height from which you can view your subjects like looking down from the head of a giraffe. Over 1,000 illustrations, practical step-by-step and easy to follow exercises and demonstrations, big softback of 240 pages, 22.5 x 28cm.