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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing

Author Walter Foster Creative Team
Release Date: 2015/11/01
ISBN: 9781633229044
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing teaches you how to draw a vast array of subjects, from landscapes and flowers to animals and portraits, with simple step-by-step lessons and exercises.

Table of Contents

  1. BASICS
    1. Tools & Materials
    2. Getting Started
    3. Learning to See
    4. Starting with Sketches
    5. Beginning with Basic Shapes
    6. Warming Up
    7. Simple Shapes
    8. Strawberries
    9. Pineapple
    10. Developing Form
  2. FLOWERS
    1. Mastering Flowers
    2. Basic Flower Shapes
    3. Simple Flowers
    4. Tulips
    5. Rose & Water Drops
    6. Daffodil
    7. Carnation
    8. Dendrobium
    9. Fuchsia
    10. Primrose
    11. Hibiscus
    12. Hybrid Tea Rose
    13. Floribunda Rose
    14. Bearded Iris
  3. LANDSCAPES
    1. Studying Trees
    2. Surfaces & Textures
    3. Trees in Perspective
    4. Begin with Simple Shapes
    5. Tree Trunks
    6. Root Patterns
    7. Branches & Boughs
    8. Majestic Oak
    9. Sycamore Lane
    10. Landscape Composition
    11. Perspective Tips
    12. Clouds
    13. Rocks
    14. Creek with Rocks
    15. Mountains
    16. Rendering a Grand Landscape
    17. Deserts
    18. Exploring Distance
  4. ANIMALS
    1. Drawing from Photographs
    2. Drawing from Life
    3. Drawing Animals
    4. Shading Techniques
    5. Rabbits
    6. Guinea Pig
    7. Squirrel
    8. Kangaroo
    9. Toucan
    10. Budgerigars
    11. Iguana
    12. Giraffe
    13. Elephant
    14. Baboon
    15. Giant Panda
    16. Chimpanzees
    17. Parrot
  5. CATS
    1. Rendering Cats
    2. Feline Features
    3. Paws & Tails
    4. Tabby Cat
    5. Persian Cat
    6. Composition
    7. Common Cat Behaviors
    8. Adult Cats
  6. DOGS
    1. Depicting Dogs
    2. Proportion & Anatomy
    3. Muzzles
    4. Doberman Pinscher
    5. Great Dane
    6. Shar-Pei Puppy
    7. Golden Retriever
    8. Siberian Husky Puppy
    9. Rough Collies
    10. Bloodhound
    11. Dachshund
    12. Maltese
  7. HORSES
    1. Basic Heads
    2. Horse Portrait
    3. Horse Head in Profile
    4. Advanced Horse Heads
    5. Pony
    6. Foal’s Body
    7. Arabian
    8. Shetland Pony
    9. Adult Horse’s Body
    10. Horse & Rider in Action
    11. The Jump
  8. PEOPLE
    1. Beginning Portraiture
    2. Adult Head Proportions
    3. Woman in Profile
    4. Studying Adult Proportions
    5. Exploring Other Views
    6. Depicting Adult Features
    7. The Nose, Ears & Mouth
    8. Head Positions
    9. Learning the Planes of the Face
    10. Approaching a Profile View
    11. Woman Frontal View
    12. Developing a Portrait
    13. Capturing a Likeness
    14. Including a Background
    15. Depicting Age
    16. Elderly Men
  9. BODY
    1. Figures in Action
    2. Movement & Balance
    3. Bending & Twisting Figures
    4. Proportion & Detail
    5. Hands & Feet
    6. Drawing from Life
    7. Clothing Folds
  10. CHILDREN
    1. Portraying Children
    2. Children’s Proportions
    3. Girl in Profile
    4. Indicating Fair Features
    5. Child Body Proportions
  11. ANATOMY
    1. Getting to Know the Basics
    2. Exploring the Torso
    3. Portraying a Seated Figure in Pencil
    4. Sketching a Standing Figure in Pencil
    5. Rendering a Reclining Figure in Charcoal
  12. STILL LIFE
    1. Still Life Composition
    2. Pinecone
    3. Floral Arrangement
    4. Liquid & Glass
    5. Bottle & Bread
  13. MORE TIPS
    1. Pictorial Composition
    2. Perspective
    3. Practicing Perspective
    4. People in Perspective
    5. Composing Figures
    6. Foreshortening
    7. More Foreshortening
    8. Choosing a Pose
    9. Understanding Lighting
    10. Depicting Textures
    11. Describing Surface Textures
    12. Capturing Vacation Scenes
    13. Experimenting with Different Media
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