San Antonio College Library

How to Draw What You See shows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an object?cube, cylinder, cone, or sphere?and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains.

Describes the drawing process, discusses proportions, light, depth, texture, pattern, design, and imagination, and tells how to evaluate one's work.

"Drawing is a way of thinking about space," writes Lu Bro. "It requires the same careful ordering of assumptions, evidence and logic to be found in any good thinking, all the while coexisting with spontaneous creative leaps." Keeping an eye on the goals of order and creativity, Lu Bro, artist and professor of drawing at Iowa State University, takes the student patiently through the major drawing methods. - Back cover.

Brief text and many sketches illustrate the approach to drawing most kinds of animals, familiar and odd, large and small.

Brandt takes you back to nature and the joyous process of discovery by demonstrating that the world is composed of relationships, rather than things. He explores the ways medium and technique influence seeing and composing. The interactions of line, value, color and texture, and composition are discussed in detail. Diagrams and examples clarify each concept. Areas of discussion include: composition, simultaneity, chiaroscuro. contrast, size and proportion,...

"Undisputed master of the simple expressive line. 141 full body sketches and enlarged details of animals in characteristic poses and movements. Calder covers cats, dogs, the elephant, birds, monkeys, the deer family, horses, cows, the lion, and more." ~ Publisher description.

This book focuses on drawing as a responsive encounter with our physical world. Here, responsive refers to our perceptual, aesthetic, and empathic interpretations of an observed subject's properties that hold potential for creative drawing. In responsive drawing, comprehending a subject's actualities precedes and affects the quality of our responses. Such drawings do more than recall what the outer world looks like. They tell us what our intuitive...