The trick to sketching

Author: Bert Dodson [USA] and Cai Qiang
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: 55 specific tips to improve painting skills, 48 self-help lessons to master techniques, 8 self-assessment lists to evaluate your progress, and let them guide you to rediscover visual art. Bert Dodson tells us, "If you can hold a pen, you can learn to draw." Through this book, he introduces us to a complete painting method that you can use to create various types of artwork—even if you have ever doubted your drawing ability. This method is built upon 55 "painting tips" and is introduced step by step. For each tip, there are numerous practical exercises to facilitate better learning. The book will introduce useful concepts, such as: what layering is, fusion, mapping, exaggeration; what freehand stroke is, controlled stroke, and how to use them; what light and shadow effects, depth effects, and brushstroke effects are, and how to express them; what "creative painting" is, and how to use it to inspire imagination.