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Drawiux
44ans ScKwarz
A PENTALIC BOOK M. GRUMBACHER, New York
INC.
First
published in the United States in 1979
Copyright
©1979 by Hans Schwarz
All right reserved.
Printed in the
USA.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-14069
US ISBN 0-8008-4582-X
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Contents
Making
4
a start
6
Perspective
Composition
8
What
to
draw with
What
to
draw on
9
13
Different techniques
shown
in a single
Drawing by
stages:
Conte no. 4
Drawing by
stages:
4B
pencil
18
Drawing by
stages:
Charcoal
20
Same subjects
drawing
16
different techniques
Finished drawings different techniques
Sketchbook drawings Don'ts
45
Presentation
48
38
22
32
14
Making a
Learning to draw so
draw
as
is
largely a matter of practice
much and
as often as
you
can,
and observation —
and use your eyes
all
the time.
start Look around you— at chairs, tables, plants, people, pets, buildings, your hand holding this book. Everything is worth drawing. The time you spend on a drawing is not important. A ten-minute sketch can say more than a slow, painstaking drawing that takes many hours. Carry a sketchbook with you whenever possible, and don't be shy of using
it
in public, either for
quick notes to be consulted later or for a
finished drawing.
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To do an
interesting drawing,
you must enjoy
Even
it.
if
you start on
something that doesn't particularly interest you,
you
will
find that the act of drawing it— and looking at
in a
new way— creates
its
you think about how you are drawing and more you think about what you are drawing, the better your
own
the
it
probably
excitement. The less
drawing
will be.
The best equipment
make you
will not itself
a better artist
a masterpiece can be drawn with a stump of pencil on a scrap of paper.
But good equipment
you can afford and
is
don't be afraid to use
Be as bold as you dare.
you
like
with
it.
encouraging and pleasant to use, so buy the best it
freely.
your piece of paper and you
do what Experiment with the biggest piece of paper and the It's
ca;i
you can find, filling the paper lettering, anything— to get a feeling
boldest, softest piece of chalk or crayon
with lines— scribbles, funny faces, of freedom.
Even
you think you have
if
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