Drawing books in the library
You can find them by searching the library catalog (GIL) or by browsing the stacks area for the following call number ranges:
- N --- Fine arts
- NC --- Drawing. Design. Illustration
- NX --- Arts in general
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come. Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes: * a new introduction; * crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain; * new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.; * an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity; * and new reproductions of master drawings throughout
Call Number: NC730 .E34 2012ISBN: 9781585429202Publication Date: 2012-04-26 -
The Ultimate Drawing Book
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Whether you are a budding artist or a professional wishing to develop your skills, This Ultimate Drawing Book is the perfect companion for you. Learn to draw everything from the texture of a silken cloth to a body in dynamic movement with this easy-to-follow guide. Barrington Barber is a working artist and best-selling author of many practical art titles, providing clear and practical guidance as well as helping you develop your own artistic style. This drawing book provides step-by-step sequences on a multitude of skills. Learn to: * Depict the elements in a landscape, such as water, trees and sky * Portray the texture of different materials * Convey the features and movement of humans * Compose an original still life Providing examples from master artists such as Di Vinci and Rubens, and breaking down their work's successful elements, Barrington Barber will help you bring your own drawings to life.
Call Number: NC730 .B295 2019ISBN: 9781789505627Publication Date: 2019-11-15 -
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A Guide to Drawing
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Call Number: NC730 .M396 1976ISBN: 9780030865657Publication Date: 1976-01-01One of the most respected and widely used books in its field, A GUIDE TO DRAWING is a classic, comprehensive, and systematic introduction to the art of drawing, focusing on the mastery of traditional skills as the basis for expressive drawing. -
Drawing Dimension - Shading Techniques
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Shading is one of the easiest ways of adding depth, contrast, character, and movement to your drawings. By controlling pencil pressure and stroke, understanding light and having knowledge of blending techniques, an artist can enhance their work and offer the "wow" factor needed to produce realistic artworks. Drawing Dimension - A Shading Guide for Teachers and Students offers a series of shading tutorials that are easy to understand and simple to follow. It goes beyond the standard "step by step" instruction to offer readers an in-depth look at a variety of shading techniques and their applications.Inside this book is a series of lessons designed to teach you how to add dimension to your own drawings, how to analyze real life objects and shade, create highlights, blend tones, and produce realistic drawings with ease. We will explore hatching, cross hatching, and stippling techniques and learn how to use contrast to set a mood and create a focal point. At last - we'll put all of these skills to the test and work together to produce a beautiful piece of art.Drawing Dimension - A Shading Guide for Teachers and Students includes many resources to help you along the way through examples, tips on what you should aim for, and pitfalls to avoid. Each lesson is tailored to help you refine your shading techniques so you can add more depth and realism to your work. The book is perfectly suitable for beginners and moderates of all ages, students and teachers, professionals and novices; anyone can learn how to shade like a pro!
Call Number: NC755.H652017ISBN: 9780692919842Publication Date: 2017-08-24 -
Perspective and Other Drawing Systems
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Call Number: NC735 .D82 1983ISBN: 9780442219598Publication Date: 1983-01-01 -
Life drawing for artists : understanding figure drawing through poses, postures, and lighting
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ISBN: 1631598023Publication Date: 2020 -
Look closer, draw better : expert techniques for realistic drawing
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ISBN: 1631596233Publication Date: 2019
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Hokusai: First Manga Master
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More than a hundred years before Japanese comics swept the globe, the master engraver Hokusai was producing beautiful, surreal, and often downright wacky sketches and drawings, filled with many of the characters and themes found in modern manga. These out-of-context caricatures, which include studies of facial expressions, postures, and situations ranging from the mundane to the otherworldly, demonstrate both the artist’s style and his taste. In addition to the landscapes for which he is beloved, Hokusai’s mangas reveal his compassion for farmers, artisans, and peasants, as well as his keen eye for the absurd.
Call Number: NC353 .K3 A65 2007ISBN: 9780810993419 -
Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the Janos Scholz Collection
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Call Number: NC255 .I82 1976ISBN: 9780486232577Publication Date: 1976-02-01 -
Murillo and His Drawings
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Call Number: NC287.M87 B76ISBN: 9780691039169Publication Date: 1977-01-21The description for this book, Murillo and His Drawings, will be forthcoming. -
Seurat
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Georges Seurat was one of the most important Post-Impressionist painters to lead the way toward the modern era in art. He is best known for developing pointillism, an exacting and time-consuming technique whereby tiny dots of paint are combined to create a composition. His work is stylized and considered, in complete contrast to the impetuous spontaneity of his precursors and contemporaries, the Impressionists. Seurat had a life-long fascination with optical observations and experiments and taught himself to become a master of color theory and linear structures. On canvas this meant rather than just painting the apparent color or shade of an object, Seurat broke down the individual component colors and placed them in individual tiny dots or dashes so that the eye of the observer would see the overall color, but on closer inspection see each individual color component. His strangely stilted paintings have a quality of stillness about them and are almost photographic in their detail. By the time he died at the age of only 31, Seurat had produced several huge paintings, about 60 smaller ones, numerous studies for his larger paintings plus around 500 drawings. In later years the Surrealists hailed Seurat as an inspirational maverick and a spiritual father to them.
ISBN: 1844062953Publication Date: 2014-01-02 -
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The Seven Sketchbooks of Vincent Van Gogh
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Call Number: NC263.G56 W6513 1987ISBN: 9780810917316Publication Date: 1987-09-01
