Introduction to Painting: Standard Training on Geometric Shapes

Author: Liu Jingqi
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: For beginners in painting, a good start and having a systematic and standardized training program are particularly important. There are many introductory art books on the market, with various styles and techniques, lacking a unified training method. This booklet is a compilation of the author's years of teaching experience and insights, proven through teaching practice to be a standardized, systematic, and effective training method for beginners in geometric shapes. Sketch training must emphasize its scientific and systematic nature. The world is full of diverse visible objects, which requires painters to observe and understand them through the method of induction and synthesis. French painter Paul Cézanne pointed out: "The forms of all objects, no matter how complex their structure, can be summarized into a few geometric shapes, namely the structural forms of spheres, cylinders, cones, and cubes." By generalizing specific images into simple geometric shapes and then using abstract geometric shapes to understand concrete objects, one can grasp the basic laws of form changes. As an introductory book for beginners in painting, this book will teach students the basic principles and methods of drawing plaster geometric shapes. The illustrations are easy to understand, and the images are light and lively, hoping to help readers during their learning process.