Drawing

Drawing: structure and vision

Part one orientation: Introduction
Chapter one class and critique:The education of an artist: What is the art of drawing,and who is an artist?
Applied art and fine art
Drawing as fine art
Expression, technique, and"genius"
Art and communication
The group critique: Forming an opinion
Responding to the work of others
Practicing directed looking
Verbalizing
Extending the thread of discussion
Using specialized vocabulary
Responding to criticism of your work
Talking and listening
Taking notes
Self-critique and the working process: Judgement of your work in progress
Beginning by sketching: developing a habit
Chapter two materials, procedures, and concepts: Materials and tools: Paper

Paper size and support
The easel
The drawing board
Positioning your easel
Basic procedures: Physical connection
Overview
Concentration
Through the looking glass: Starting to draw
The perceptual screen and the page
First steps
Perfection and correction
From real space to pictorial space: Proportion
Proportion and depth recession
Further study
Shape composition and the picture plane
Viewfinders
Unity of the composition
Conclusion: observation, insight, and imagination
Part two elements of form: Introduction
Chapter three organic mark and form: Mark, line, and shape: The field and the mark
Line
Gesture
Quality of line

Line defining shape
Shape and composition
Complex mark: Contour and organic form: Outside contour
Elliptical contour
Cross contour
Chapter four geometric mark and form: Principles of visual geometry: Natural force and form
Geometric principles: the straight line
Vertical and horizontal balance
Grometry and architecture: the rectangle
Diagonal lines
Geometric systems: Grids and meshes
Expressive Grids
Grids and three-dimensional illusion
Symbol and mark
Finding geometric order: Geometric interpretation of form and scene
Three-dimensional geometry
The geometric figure
The geometry of spatial arrangement

Chapter five the experience of space: The universe of space: Objects, surfaces, and space
Observing Intervals and angles
The horizon: scale and viewpoint
Linear perspective: Vanishing points: the ordering of spatial experience
Practical problems
Comparison of perspective systems
Perspective and the expression of space
Perspective and light
Scale and complexity
Nonperspective structures
Chapter six Value: light and form: Value
The nature of light, texture, and color: Vision and light
Sources of light
Intensity of reflectance
Material reflectance
Texture as value
Color as value
Approaches to light and form: Chiaroscuro

Imagined light and shadow
Modeling
Diagrammatic light
Value and space: Objects in space
Tonal atmospheric perspective
Linear atmospheric perspective
Edges: merging and emerging shapes
Chapter seven value: idea and response: Immediate response to light and shadow: Value range linked to idea: Proportion of light to dark values
Limited value range
Extended value range
Value shapes linked to response
Image and abstraction
Sharp sharpes and atmospheric shapes
Light sources: idea and response: Lighting from above
Light from below
Light from within the composition
Value paths and hierarchy: Tempo of light and dark values

Paths to a defined destination
Continuous search
Layers of similar value
Chapter eight color and light: Introduction: the power of color: Memory, association, and visual poetry
The structure of color: Color connections: warm and color
Neighbors and complements
Complementary color and low-saturation mixtures
Hue, saturation, and value
Color atmosphere
The energy of contrast
Connection and contrast: earth tones
Color and space: layers and spectrum triads
Color expression and narrative: Color intensity and expression
Expressive color: value and form
Narrative uses of color range
Color and compositional emphasis

Part three expressive directions: Introduction
Chapter nine the living figure: Figure-based narrative: Narrative sign and form
Narrative sequence
The body as object: Physical presence
Solidity and expression
Bilateral symmetry: the head
The skeleton: part I, foreshortening
The skeleton: part II, flexibility and spatial fluidity
The S curve
Spiral and contraposto
Line weight and spacial movement
Form and surface: Working with tonal contrast: contour and modeled shadow
Surface and skin
The figure in context: Group gesture
Figures and space
"Real-life"drawing
Chapter ten composition and expression: Field and shape: Visual emphasis and unity
The field
Graphic position

Positive and negative shape
Abstract form and Expression: Associations of abstract form
Abstraction,realism,and double reading
Composition and space: Implied scale and viewpoint
Point of view and narrative
Surface and expression: Material, texture, and detail
Layering with collage
Layering with imprint and frottage
Frame and format
Part four approaching a series: Introduction
Chapter eleven investigations with media and sketchbook studies: Experimentation with media: Redrawing drawing
Sensing the touch and the motion
Pushing the range of invention
Reading the layers
Sketchbooks, study pages, and research: Understanding deeply

Gathering and remembering
Recording surroundings and inventions
Resolving compositions and details
Chapter twelve contemporary process and series: Ideas into series: Benefits of working in a series
The creative idea
The visual and the verbal
Process: planned or spontaneous: Searching without a plan
Spontaneity with a planned process
Planned image and process
Systematic process
Drawing content from life: Series of drawings by contemporary artists
Chapter thirteen individual series development: Planning a series: Suggested guidelines
Generating ideas
Week to week of the series: Identifying your idea: weeks 1 and 2 of the series

Decision on direction and moving forward: weeks 3,4,and 5 of the series
Breakthrough and development: weeks 6,7,and 8 of the series
Idea and identity: your work in the world: weeks 9,10,and beyond
Sustained Investigations: student series
Appendix A materials and processes: Dry media: Charcoal
Chalks and crayons
Graphite
Tools for dry media
Wet media: Ink
Water-based paints
Tool for wet media: Pens
Brushes
Alternative drawing tools
Alternative drawing media and prosesses
Paper and drawing supports: Categories of paper making
Paper terms
Types of paper and drawing supports
Safety issues
Appendix B linear perspective: One-point perspective: Elevation, paraline, and perspective projections

Published Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009

Language English

Material 461

ISBN 0130896020 / 9780130896025

NC 730 D796 2009 C.2

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NC 730 D796 2009 C.1

TCDC Khon Kaen - Closed Stack

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