Complete Idiot''''s Guide to Drawing- P39 pdf

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perspective, 197-209
aerial perspective, 198
drawing, 203-206
eye level, 200
formal perspective,
198-199
horizon line, 200
houses, 244-245
informal perspective,
198-199
measuring, 206-207
one-point perspective,
201
picture plane, 199-202
planes in space,
208-209
three-point perspective,
202
tips for drawing
outdoors, 203
two-point perspective,
201
vanishing points,
200-202
views, 203-204
photography
animal portraiture, 267
landscape drawing, 217
PhotoShop, 333

Phthisic habitus, 276
picture planes, 48-51
building, 48
drawing exercise, 52-53
drawing with, 48-49
grids, setting up, 50-52
historical uses of, 49-50
perspective, 199-202
transferring drawings to
paper, 54-55
visual concepts, 49-50
pitchers, 168
planes in space (perspec-
tive), 208-209
planning lines (drawing
still life), 110-111
plastic picture planes, 152
measuring angles, 131
patio doors, 159
political satire, 322-323
portraits, 290-293
animals, 265
setting the scene, 292
practicing, 8, 161
beginning techniques,
85-87
hand and eye warm-
ups, 34-35
Palmer Method writing,
33-34

prehistoric drawing, 4
Prendergast, Maurice, 340
primary colors, 329
print (etching/print), 128
print paper, 128
printing images (comput-
ers), 332
privacy, 166
problem solving (teaching
drawing to children),
310-312
profile/vase-vase/profile
drawing exercise, 23-25
proportions, 62
animals, 258-259
body proportion,
278-280
faces, 291
houses, 245
portraits, 288
Q-R
Quark, 333
range, 93-95
rearranging objects for
drawing, 166
receding planes (measur-
ing angles), 132
reflections, 223
relational right.
See right-

brain
resources for learning to
draw, 347-348
reviewing drawings, 151
from a distance, 158
right-brain, 6, 17-18
child development,
19-20
developing in children,
7
drawing exercises, 23-30
profile/vase-vase/
profile, 23-25
right side up/upside
down, 26-30
strengthening, 6
teaching children right-
brain approach to
drawing, 302-303
right side up/upside down
drawing exercise, 26-30
right-handedness, 17-18
roads, 230
rough-surfaced paper, 84
S
safaris, 265
Sargent, John Singer, 339
scale, 131, 199
animals, 268
people, 296

scanners, 332
sculptures, drawing from,
341
seashells, 182
secondary colors, 329
self-conciousness, 151
self-portraits, 293
shadow colors, 329
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shadows, 188
landscapes, 225
tone, 115-118
3-D objects, drawing,
119
chiaroscuro, 119
drawing exercise,
119-122
tonal charts, creating,
116-118
weight, 119
shapes, 67, 119
animals, 258-259
in fabric, 169
faces, 291
flowers, 135
geometric shapes, 86-87
Shapiro, Harry, 343
sharing your work,
341-342

Sheeler, Charles, 338
shipyards, 232
shoes, 170
shrubs, 217
silverware, 167
siting the image, 96
skeletal system, 274
sketchbook journals.
See journals
space, 67, 119
landscapes, 215
negative space, 67-68
planes in space (per-
spective), 208-209
Sperry, Roger W., 17
spontaneous drawing, 148
square, 63
squirrels, 189
statues (garden), 188
Stella, Joseph, 338
stencils, 322
still life, 101-102, 155
antique items, 171
bathroom items, 172
bedroom items,
168-170
checklist, 157
composition, 104-106
Golden Section, 105
cubes, 108

cylinders, 109
drawing in boxes, 110
ellipses, 107-108
eye level, 106-108
form, 158
fruit and vegetables,
104
humor, 172
kitchen items, 168
living room items, 171
patios, 174
planning lines, 110-111
reinventing the world,
321
selecting objects for,
101, 104
vantage point, 106
viewpoint, 106
window arrangements,
173
still life space, 94
storing
drawings, 331
materials, 85
story illustrations, 319
structures
houses, 241-242
building materials,
248
cityscapes, 247

countryside, 247-248
details, 245-252
drawing at different
times, 243
farmhouses, 250
perspective, 244-245
proportion considera-
tions, 245
Victorian, 249
special structures, 232
unusual structures,
251-252
studios, 80
reflecting the artist, 142
styles of drawing through
history, 340
surface details, 132
symbolic drawing, 301
T
teaching drawing to
children
children’s brain devel-
opment, 7
drawing exercises,
310-312
encouraging creativity,
304-305
making drawing a
positive experience,
307-310

problem solving,
310-312
right-brain approach to
drawing, 302-303
visual development,
305
visual learning, 303
techniques, beginning
techniques, 85-87
Ten Commandments of
Frederick Frank, 344
tertiary colors, 329
textures, 132, 158
animals, 261
therapeutic drawing, 147
three dimensional (3-D),
50
three-point perspective,
202
thumbnail sketches
(landscapes), 216
time, finding time to
draw, 82
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tones, 115-118, 158-160
3-D objects, drawing,
119
changing tonal range,
161

chiaroscuro, 119
drawing exercise,
119-122
tonal charts, creating,
116-118
weight, 119
tools (garden), 187
travel journals, 144
traveling, 315
trees, 216-217
trompe l’oeil, 198
two dimensional (2-D), 50
two-point perspective,
201
U-V
unusual structures,
drawing, 251-252
van Gogh, Vincent, 197
vanishing points (per-
spective), 200-202
vantage point, 102, 106
vegetables, 185
still life, 104
vehicles, 235-236
vellum surface (paper), 84
vertical orientation
(paper), 92
Victorian houses, 249
viewfinder frames, 59-60,
152-154

drawing with, 63-65
making, 60-62
viewpoint, 102, 106
views, 171
landscapes, 214
plastic picture planes,
159
vines, 220
virtual sketchbooks,
331-333
visual concepts (picture
planes), 49-50
visual development, 305
visual learning, 303
W-Z
warm-ups (hand and eye
warm-ups), 34-35
water, 223
water-soluble pencils, 129
watercolor paper, 84, 128
waterfronts
animals, 263
special structures, 232
Web sites, 332
Weber, Max, 338
weight, 119
paper, 84
wildflowers, 184, 316
wildlife, 189
window boxes, 187

writing, Palmer Method
writing, 33
Wyeth, Andrew, 339
Zen, 148, 342-343
Zen of Seeing, The, 91
zoos, 266