On the Art of Drawing

by Robert Fawcett

Book Overview

With this helpful and informative guide, a leading American illustrator offers insights into how serious beginners can become sketch masters. It combines a focus on the nature and importance of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823033260
• ISBN13: 9780823033263
• Release Date: April 1977
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting instruction- sketchy images...

I like this, even though it's filled with mainly sketchy & preliminary images. Take a good look at the current cover images- not a single illustration inside is much more finished than these. This is an exceedingly rare example of a title that's more interesting to me for its words than its pictures! There are *lots* of great insights into the art of drawing & illustration inside. Fawcett was a founding member, along with Rockwell and others, of the Famous Artists School, which is currently best represented by The Figure: The Classic Approach to Drawing & Construction, one of my favorite figure books. I highly recommend Walt Reed's The Figure to everyone, with On the Art of Drawing being more for enthusiastic collectors of how-to-draw type books. Contents= 1. The Why of Drawing; 2. Drawing for Information; 3. Questions and Answers; 4. On Drawing Naturally; 5. On Technique; 6. Variety in Drawing; 7. Drawing as Understanding; 8. Round or Flat; 9. From Light to the Scene; 10. On Taste; 11. Seeing and the Medium; 12. Economy; and then Illustration and the Contrived Picture. Original copyright= 1958.