Drawing: Mastering the Language of Visual Expression (Abrams Studio)

By Keith Micklewright

Drawing is a language, a necessary skill for anyone who wants to express ideas or feelings in images. Like all languages, it can be mastered with practice and instruction. Author Keith Micklewright distills a lifetime of hard thinking about drawing, presenting techniques-along with exercises-that help us to become fluent at visual communication. Some of the issues that Micklewright addresses as integral to developing visual literacy are: the difference between thinking verbally and thinking visually, tonal value in relation to color, form, and light, theories of proportion and perspective, translation from three dimensions into two, creating a relationship between the elements in a drawing, as if between words in a sentence, making marks as a component of personal style, selection and emphasis of details that are essential to clarity of expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810992388
• ISBN13: 9780810992382
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

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