Pencil Drawing Techniques: Learn How to Master Pencil Working Techniques to Create Your Own Successful Drawings

by David Lewis

Book Overview

"Here is a really good book for the artist who wants to develop his or her pencil drawing abilities, whether it's to improve your preliminary sketch work, or to create beautiful pencil drawings... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823039919
• ISBN13: 9780823039913
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Disappointed with the condition of the book. One page is completely torn loose. I never thought a

book

the book was in good condition when it arrived. And it helped me a lot

Excellent resource

This is an excellent resource for beginning pencil drawers. I refer to it consistently and I highly recommend it. Definitely worth the money.

Pencil Drawing Techniques

This was a gift for a person who had just started pencil drawing as a hobby. He declared it an excellent book with many good pointers.

A beginner???this is THE book for U!

i am a beginner in pencil drawing, and as a beginner i say this book is just awsome! it takes u from the basics till u reach the developed level... but yet this book already assumes that u already know a bit of drawing..meaning: u have the skills but u need to learn how to apply them on ur work to get the best results... more or less u'll benefit from this book...it's just great!

Great book and a lot of text

Hi all. I draw as a hobby and have been drawing since I was a about 10. I took drawing classes before, but when I look at my previous artwork, they really don't have the "realism" that I wanted, i.e. they look too much like cartoons. I wandered around and tried looking for some books to teach me how to obtained that photo-realistic quality with a pencil.Flipping through this book, my jaw dropped in amazement at the examples in this book. Near the end, the illustrations of zoo animals (tigers, horses, etc) were so life-like! The artist really know how to shade. I instantly brought the book.Let me tell you, this book is very complex and loaded with information. There are lots of text for an art book. First, the book goes over the basics of shapes and different shades of pencil lead (from hard 6H to very soft 8B, the "#2 pencil" is near the middle). Then we go over shading. The book is primarily focusing on different shading and strokes techniques in order to get that "life-like" realism in your drawing. In my personal experience, trying to obtain that level takes many hours and many practice. If you are the type who gives up easily, then this book isn't for you. Nobody said drawing is easy. Or, if you are only interested in drawing nice line-arts (and letting a computer do the rest), then this book is NOT for you as well. However, if you want to draw to the highest realism with just a pencil, then this book is worth considering. I should also mention that a small chapter is devoted to color pencils (whereas the rest, or 90% of the book, is on graphite pencil), but I haven't bother with color yet.