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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.
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.
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.
208 pages, Paperback
First published November 9, 2007
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August 12, 2022
”If one desires to learn to draw, let him draw and
draw and draw.”
Fantastic book on pencil drawing, especially the first chapters are a gold mine of knowledge. It gets a little repetitive in the second half and is very much geared towards a job that doesn’t exist anymore (who hires an illustrator to design a building these days). The book is also very text heavy and the formatting is not great either, but honestly you can’t expect a modern layout from a book that’s 100 years old.
Anyways, brb gushing over Guptill’s pencil renders.
draw and draw.”
Fantastic book on pencil drawing, especially the first chapters are a gold mine of knowledge. It gets a little repetitive in the second half and is very much geared towards a job that doesn’t exist anymore (who hires an illustrator to design a building these days). The book is also very text heavy and the formatting is not great either, but honestly you can’t expect a modern layout from a book that’s 100 years old.
Anyways, brb gushing over Guptill’s pencil renders.
January 14, 2014
This is a 2007 unabridged republication of Sketching and Rendering in Pencil, originally published by The Pencil Points Press, Inc. New York, 1922. Although modern drawing instruction books include many of the same points, this book definitely has the feel of an earlier time, including more detail than one usually finds today and expecting a longer period of drawing apprenticeship and more disciplined practice than is now common. This book also differs from some others I have seen in that while it covers a variety of drawing subject matter, it focuses on the pencil drawing skills needed for the student of architecture.
April 15, 2010
Too verbose for me. Page after page of dense prose.
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