The draw anything book Over 200 simple step-by-step sequences for all kinds of things
Book - 2020
With each right-hand page empty for your sketching and drawing, each left-hand page of this book provides instructions for drawing animals, people, everyday objects, and more. Lambry breaks down the process of drawing into a series of simple shapes and lines, enabling you to recreate even complex things in a few steps. -- adapted from publisher info and perusal of book.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Instructional and educational works
- Published
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Beverly, MA :
Quarry Books, an imprint of the Quarto Group
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Vintage edition
- Physical Description
- 175 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781631599811
- Drawing lines
- Simple objects using lines
- Dividing into equal parts
- Exercises with repeating lines
- More exercises with repeating lines
- Creating differences/variation
- More complex objects formed with lines
- Broken and jagged lines
- Using angles
- Using triangles
- More objects using triangles
- Variations of the same shape
- The influence of flare
- Exercises with angles
- Horizontal, vertical, and oblique lines
- Using horizontal, vertical, and oblique lines
- Measuring angles
- Angular masses
- Angles and movement
- Curves and lines
- Simple objects using circles
- Transforming a round shape
- Cats and circles
- Ornate curves
- Pear shapes
- The influence of curves on shapes
- Key parts of an object
- The notion of inverted shape
- The influence of material type on shape
- Real lines, fictional lines, and axes
- Symmetry and dissymmetry
- Symmetry with multiple axes
- Axes and planes of symmetry
- How to estimate proportions
- Comparing the proportions of objects
- The influence of general proportions
- The influence of parts over the whole composition
- Laying down the grid
- The notion of scale
- Applying the notion of scale
- Masses
- Length and mass ratios
- Equal masses and similar masses
- Vertical masses and horizontal masses
- Oppositions of vertical and horizontal masses in nature
- Symmetry and mass contrasts
- Oppositions of horizontal and vertical masses
- Oppositions of square and round masses
- Oppositions or mass contrasts
- Principles of volume
- Object and image: 3D to 2D
- Dimensional drawings: 3D to 2D
- Gravity
- The effects of gravity
- The influence of gravity on drawing lines
- The application of gravity: The building of levels
- Oppositions of square masses and round masses
- Oppositions of big and small masses
- Nature does the rounds, humans the squares
- The influence of perspective
- Drawing circles in perspective
- The line of horizon
- The influence of distance on the size of images
- The vanishing point (VP)
- The vanishing point and speed
- An explanation of perspective
- Drawing squares and rectangles in perspective
- Perspective of cubes
- Perspective of vertical lines
- Architectural perspective
- The symbolism of lines
- The symbolism of horizontal and vertical lines
- More symbolism of horizontal and vertical lines
- Further symbolism of horizontal and vertical lines
- The symbolism of horizontal and tilted lines
- The symbolism of angles
- The symbolism of horizontal and oblique lines
- The historical application of the symbolism of horizontal and vertical lines
- The architectural symbolism of horizontal and vertical lines
- The application of symbolism to landscapes
- More application of symbolism to landscapes
- Contrasts in architecture
- Value contrasts
- The color wheel
- Using complementary colors