Mastering the Art of Drawing

This comprehensive reference book features over 750 color photographs, and introduces all aspects of drawing for beginners to intermediates, with full technical instruction and easy to follow projects. Includes a complete guide to the artist's materials and equipment, including monochrome and colored pencils, charcoal, wax crayons, chalks, soft pastels, conte sticks, pen and ink, easels and the various types of drawing paper. Provides expert guidance on key drawing techniques, with small scale practice exercises: drawing outlines, shading and tonal work, line and wash, sketching, using negative spacing, blending, frottage and sgraffito, as well as fundamental principles such as understanding perspective, composition and color. Features over 25 original fully illustrated projects, specially commissioned from leading professional artists, to help you learn and practice the techniques in action.