Pencil art workshop : techniques, ideas, and inspiration for drawing and designing with pencil /
Matt Rota.
- 1 online resource (147 pages)
Introduction -- A Pencil Timeline -- Tools and Materials -- CHAPTER 1: DRAWING WITH LINE -- Type of Line and Line Personality -- Exercise 1: Line and Space -- Exercise 2: Texture -- Exercise 3: Volume -- Exercise 4: Completing a Full Composition in Line -- Gallery -- CHAPTER 2: DRAWING WITH TONE -- Getting Started in Tone -- Exercise 1: Taking Creative Control of the Values -- Exercise 2: Getting Started -- Exercise 3: Drawing with the Eraser -- Exercise 4: Adding Complex Shadows (Seeing Light in the Shadows) -- Exercise 5: Building Tone with Marks -- Gallery -- CHAPTER 3: DRAWING QUICKLY -- Finding the Essence of a Form -- Exercise 1: Blind Contour -- Exercise 2: Drawing in a Busy Public Space -- Exercise 3: Adding a Background -- Gallery -- CHAPTER 4: PHOTOREALISTIC DRAWING -- Interpreting Reality -- Exercise 1: Grid the Paper and Photo -- Exercise 2: Add Tone in the Lighter Range -- Exercise 3: Establish a Range: The Darkest Dark, The Lightest Light -- Exercise 4: Add Details in the Midrange -- CHAPTER 5: ADDING COLOR -- Wet and Dry -- Exercise 1: Watercolor over Pencil -- Exercise 2: Pencil over Watercolor -- Exercise 3: Pencil and Colored Pencil -- Exercise 4: Pencil and Ink -- Exercise 5: Pencil and Gouache -- Gallery -- Artists Directory -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
In Pencil Art Workshop, well-known artist and illustrator Matt Rota demonstrates several techniques in graphite, then ties it together with an international gallery of artists for inspiration. The humble pencil is the world's most flexible and forgiving drawing material. Pencil Art Workshop is the platform for artist and educator Matt Rota (author of The Art of Ballpoint) to show you key techniques that every artist should know. Following along with Matt is easy as he explores the pencil's phenomenal, and sometimes surprising, range. Turn to any chapter--Drawing with Line, Drawing with Tone, Drawing Quickly, Photorealism, Adding Color--and you'll discover, through step-by-step instructions and illustrations, how to choose the right pencil for your specific project, and how to use it to its fullest in every drawing style. Each chapter in Pencil Art Workshop also includes a gallery of edgy and inspiring works by contemporary pencil artists to enjoy and to receive inspiration from.