The Big Book of Drawing: The History, Study, Materials, Techniques, Subjects, Theory, and Practice of Artistic Drawing (English and Spanish Edition)

By José María Parramón

Book Overview

This introduction to the basics of drawing provides step-by-step exercises and demonstrations of all drawing media: graphite, charcoal, coloured pencil, conte and pastel. It explores the particular... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082300497X
• ISBN13: 9780823004973
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Exactly what I wanted!

I was tentative about buying this book since there were no reviews and no picture posted, but I was very pleasantly surprised! The whole thing is very concise but covers a lot of ground, the first 50 pages provide a brief art history lesson starting from cave paintings up to the 1950's with lots of pictures, touching on art around the world and focusing on figure drawings. The rest of the book covers drawing techniques and materials, among other things it features an in-depth explanation of how to achieve perspective in cityscapes and landscapes and helpful diagrams of body proportions and anatomy for life drawing. Also, the example drawings are beautiful and Parramon goes into specifics of how to achieve a wide range of effects and which materials will provide those results. There is a lot of information and if you're looking for an in-depth guide to any specific technique or period in art history this may not be a book for you, but if you just want an overview of EVERYTHING you need to know about drawing and its history without having to read an 800 page book, and you like seeing pictures more than reading, you've found a winner.