Drawing and Sketching in Pencil

This classic guide offers clear concise instruction in the basics as well as the finer points of pencil drawing. Appropriate for beginning and intermediate students it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations that encompass a wide range of subjects -- mainly architectural but also people animals and landscapes -- and demonstrate a tremendous variety of techniques.<br>An architect painter art director and teacher Arthur L. Guptill wrote several popular books on drawing. He begins this two-part treatment aimed at architects artists and students with discussions of drawing objects in outline and in light and shade the principles of freehand perspective methods of cast and life drawing and sketching animals. The second part examines the choice of subjects and drawing in outline and in flat and graded tones. The important subject of composition receives considerable attention with particular focus on unity and balance. Additional topics include working from photographs and from nature the representation of buildings -- including exteriors interiors and street scenes -- and portraying details and accessories from furniture draperies doors and windows to clouds water and trees.