RINES - LANDSCAPE DRAWING IN PENCIL

Concise and beautifully illustrated this guide provides invaluable instruction on the art of pencil drawing. It covers the basics of holding the pencil applying different strokes shading perspective and the rendering of different textures as well as the finer points of pictorial composition and drawing from nature.Based on the author's years of experience teaching art students at all levels this book is ideal for home or class use. Its thirty-six evocative sketches range from English castles to American bridges with a few detailed close-ups showing how to surmount some of the problems of depicting rocks roofs standing water or leafy tree branches. The accompanying text describes how artists at every level of experience can develop their own pencil technique by employing fundamental rules.