Drawing Structure: Conceptual & Observational Techniques, by Hollis Hammonds, 2009
Look Around. Take a careful look at your surroundings and you will see that drawings are all around us. In fact, they are so much a part of our everyday experience that we often overlook them. We see drawings in advertising, textile design, and the stitched lines on the back pockets of our jeans. Drawings can be found in car manuals, on skin, in children’s books, and in online comics. Each of us has at some time in our lives created a drawing. At the beach, you may have drawn pictures in the sand. If you have ever played “connect the dots,” then you’ve created a drawing. In fact, handwriting is often considered a form of drawing, and your signature is a unique calligraphic mark that is specific to you alone.
This book provides an introduction to the technical aspects of representational drawing. Whether you have little to no experience with drawing, or have been drawing all of your life, this text is structured so that every student will leave with a set of analytic drawing tools, which will enable them to render almost any form realistically.
To purchase a copy or request a review copy go to http://kendallhunt.com.
Here are example pages from the text.
Look Around. Take a careful look at your surroundings and you will see that drawings are all around us. In fact, they are so much a part of our everyday experience that we often overlook them. We see drawings in advertising, textile design, and the stitched lines on the back pockets of our jeans. Drawings can be found in car manuals, on skin, in children’s books, and in online comics. Each of us has at some time in our lives created a drawing. At the beach, you may have drawn pictures in the sand. If you have ever played “connect the dots,” then you’ve created a drawing. In fact, handwriting is often considered a form of drawing, and your signature is a unique calligraphic mark that is specific to you alone.
This book provides an introduction to the technical aspects of representational drawing. Whether you have little to no experience with drawing, or have been drawing all of your life, this text is structured so that every student will leave with a set of analytic drawing tools, which will enable them to render almost any form realistically.
To purchase a copy or request a review copy go to http://kendallhunt.com.
Here are example pages from the text.