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Explains the principles of the drawing method called "chiaroscuro" and shows how to use it to draw people's heads, presenting step-by-step examples. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The drawing method and materials
- Chiaroscuro
- Sfumato
- The materials
- Substitute materials
- Working with the pencil
- Drawing shadow shapes
- Sharpening the pencil
- 1. Principles of chiaroscuro
- Line versus value
- "Lost-and-found" line
- Value and form
- Paper + two pencils = a full-value range
- The shadow shapes and their edges
- Form-shadows
- Cast-shadows
- The shadow edges
- The form in light
- Analyzing form
- Negative shapes
- 2. Principles of drawing the head
- Two masses of light and shadow
- Lighting the head
- Artificial and natural light
- Light advance; dark recedes
- Single focal point
- Perspective and the three-quarter view
- Perspective
- Planes of the head
- Foreshortening
- Value pattern
- Addressing the background
- 3. The drawing process, step-by-step
- Sculpting the head
- Gesture
- The tilt
- Proportions
- Placing the features
- The anatomy of the eyes
- The orbicular cavity
- The natural slants of the eye
- The eyelids, pupils, and iris
- Positions of the eyes
- Drawing the eyes
- Highlights on the eyes
- Using the paper value
- Examples of eyes
- Nose and mouth
- The structure of the nose and mouth
- Examples of the nose and mouth
- Ears
- Placement of the ear
- Hair
- Troubleshooting example
- 4. Putting it all together
- The five essential drawing steps
- Review
- The demonstrations
- Going forward
- Practice ideas
- Self-critique
- Taking your skills to the next level
- 5. Drawing from multiple sources
- Combining references
- A demonstration
- Examples of composite drawings
- 6. Working with color
- From drawing to painting
- The color "wheel"
- Complementary colors
- Color intensity
- Mixing from the tertiary colors
- Color temperature
- Color relationships
- Warm advances; cool recedes
- Family of colors
- Expressive color
- Pastel painting
- The materials
- Caring for your pastel
- Applying the charcoal pencil
- Applying the tone
- Applying the pastel
- Painting the background
- Pastel demonstration one
- Pastel demonstration two.