Drawing in Ink

by Harry Borgman

Book Overview

Here is a complete introduction to contemporary techniques of ink drawing for artists and illustrators, emphasizing today's (1977) bold drawing styles in drawings, exercises and step-by-step... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823013855
• ISBN13: 9780823013852
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Description from the book:

"Here is a complete introduction to contemporary techniques of ink drawing for artist and illustrators, emphasizing today's bold drawing styles. In drawings, exercises, and step-by-step demonstrations, the author shows how to create a wide variety of expressive lines and textures, crosshatching, washes, and mechanical tones added by using printed textures. He goes into great detail on the following subjects: animals, airplanes, people, exotic landscapes, and food."

From the Dust Jacket:

Presents 15 demonstrations that show the techniques of combining the line and tone; crosshatching with a pen; drawing with a bristle brush; pen line with brush accents; pen and brush drawing with ink wash; ink lines and Instantex; scratchboard used for realistic & decorative drawing; ink lines and Pentel washes; using an erasing shield; using the electric eraser; correcting a scratchboard drawing; making a graphite tracing sheet; and projecting the image of a drawing or photograph on paper.