Life Drawing: How To Portray the Figure with Accuracy and Expression - Softcover

Barrett, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440325227 ISBN 13: 9781440325229

Verlag: Robert Barrett, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The human figure presents an infinite number of opportunities and challenges and this intriguing book will help you meet them all.

Working for the most part in charcoal and monochrome hard pastel, Robert demonstrates a huge variety of both nude and clothed figures. He also deals with the technical aspects of portraiture, including proportion and the basics of anatomy, beginning by showing you how to build up a basic outline using just simple shapes.

The book contains a good mixture of examples, tips and demonstrations and you'll learn how to capture character, handle facial details and get the hands and feet right as well as exploit movement, perspective, light and shade and how to use tonal values. There is also an excellent chapter on clothing that shows you how to get the falls and folds of simple and complex garments just right.

This is a comprehensive and well-structured guide that works well as a complete course and will reward considerable study.

Book: North Light. Paperback. 160 pages. Colour throughout

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Reseña del editor:

Master the art of drawing the figure.

Drawing from life has been an important source of expression and satisfaction for artists through the ages. Robert Barrett, master fine artist, instructor and university professor, re-creates his studio class on the pages of this book. Inside, you'll find a complete introduction to life drawing. You'll learn not only how to accurately portray the figure, but also how to bring life and personality to your drawing subjects.

Detailed lessons, including step-by-step demonstrations, cover the fundamentals of drawing and design. You'll learn:

• How to capture your subject's character.
• The basics of figure anatomy, proportion and design.
• How to use light and shadow to create form.
• How to draw drapery and backgrounds.

Barrett shows you how to achieve superb figure drawings--clothed and unclothed, male and female--filled with beauty and depth of expression. Find out what artists have always known--magnificent art comes from the life all around you!

Biografía del autor:

In addition to being an accomplished painter, muralist, and illustrator, Robert Barrett is also a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Robert Barrett
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1440325227
• ISBN 13: 9781440325229
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160