Pencil Sketching, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Thomas C. Wang

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although not so obvi­ous from the title, Pen­cil Sketch­ing is really about sketch­ing land­scapes and archi­tec­ture. It's a pretty great book with so many great sketches that it makes you want to get out there and draw noth­ing but buildings!

In this book, Wang gives a solid overview of pen­cil use, the strokes pro­duced by var­i­ous kinds of pen­cils and dif­fer­ent grips and hand/arm move­ments for sketch­ing. What I really liked was the sam­ples and exer­cises of strokes that are use­ful for sketch­ing land­scapes and build­ings. Some might find this overly sim­plis­tic, but as a begin­ner, I thought it was useful!

In gen­eral, the book has quite lit­tle text but lots of sketches. Most of the impor­tant lessons in the book are explained through sketches; for exam­ples, how to shade to cre­ate con­trast and give the impres­sion of depth. In fact, the whole last chap­ter (all 20 pages of it) only has exam­ples of Wang's sketches. How­ever, even with­out text, the book has a lot of use­ful lessons. If you hate read­ing, this is def­i­nitely a good book for you! I, on the other hand, LOVE read­ing so I wish this book had more pages for me to read.

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✦ Table of Contents

PENCIL SKETCHING ......Page 2
CONTENTS ......Page 8
PREFACE ......Page 10
INTRODUCTION ......Page 12
Pencils ......Page 18
Papers ......Page 24
Accessories ......Page 28
Holding the Pencil ......Page 30
Pressure ......Page 34
Movement of the Hand ......Page 38
Lines and Strokes ......Page 42
Introduction ......Page 48
Observation and Recording ......Page 50
Landscape Sketching ......Page 52
Trees ......Page 54
Trees in the Foreground ......Page 62
Trees in the Background ......Page 63
Landforms ......Page 66
Water ......Page 70
Architecture ......Page 74
Sketching the Cityscape ......Page 78
COMPOSITION ......Page 82
SKETCHING FROM MEMORY......Page 96
EXAMPLES ......Page 102
INDEX ......Page 124