drawing
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manuals
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Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of
Painting, 1679 - 1701. the
1887/8 edition republished by the Princeton University Press
in the BOLLINGEN series 19063 [1956]. Although to the
pedantic about painting, it is a fine manual of mark making
and much recommended.
a list of the
contents
Gene Byrne,
A Complete Guide to
Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning and
Painting, Simon &
Schuster, New York 1948, freehand drawing, design, color
theory, medium, comic drawing, the human figure, children,
portraiture, animals, Magazines and Books, in advertising,
decorative painting, interiors and furnishings.
Norman Anton, Black and White Drawing
Methods, Seeley Service,
London 1961. Variety of line, increasing control, drawing
with the brush, paper, shadow, stipple, line tones,
surfaces, variety, leaving out, light and shadows,
reflection, white on black, landscape, optical balance,
composition, trees, clouds, atmosphere, view finder, rapid
sketching, perspective, examples, planning a composition,
dry-brush techniques, figure drawing, general hints.
Harry Furniss,
How to Draw in Pen and Ink, Chapman and Hall, London, 3rd edition
1923 [December 1905]. Originality in pendrawing and design,
To my Fellow-Students, Various methods and various means, A
few hints to Special Artists (reportage, character,
positioning and perspectival views of architecture), A Few
Hints to Lady Students, A Little Captious Criticism of the
Lady Art Student, The Illustrating of Books.
Henry C.Pitz,
Ink Drawing Techniques,
Watson Guptill, New York, 1957. "This book is not a history
but a manual."a list of the contents.
John Austen,
The ABC of Pen and Ink
Rendering, Pitman London
1937, The Tools and the Materials, the ABC of pen and ink
rendering, The Alphabet contd., a note on the use of the
Reed Pen, The Method of Procedure (3 sections) Scraper Board
Drawing, Dry Brush Work, Splatter Work, Growing Pains, some
examples of drawing - Fred Sandys, Albert Rutherston and
Austen himself. Many sequences of drawings to study.
Examples of different types of line work.
G.Montague
Ellwood, The Art of Pen
Drawing, A Manual for Students, Illustrators and Commercial
Artists, Batsford, London,
1927. a list of the
contents.
Mervyn Peake, The Craft of the Lead
Pencil, Allen Wingate,
London 1946, "To make a drawing is to record an idea..." A
Pencil, Clumsiness, How to Stare, Expressiveness An Example,
Direction of Light, Line, Minor Shadows, Proportion, Rhythm,
The Third Dimension, Exaggeration, To Judge Angles, The
Head.
Percy V.Bradshaw, I Wish I Could Draw, The Studio How to Do It series, London
1948 [1941] How Nature Teaches Line Drawing, Value of the
Line, The Third Dimension, Landscape and Architecture,
Figure Drawing, Humorous Drawing, Animal Drawing,
Perspective, Composition, A Master Draughtsman [Durer] -
Bradshaw was, as Principal of the Press School, highly
influential in the development of British Commercial Art
after 1919.
Ashley Havinden, Line Drawing for
Reproduction, The Studio,
London, [1933] 1945. evolution of line and tone
reproduction, six variations in half-tone, to the student
reader, materials for drawing in line, Variations in
treatment, mechanical application of tints
How To
Draw series, The Studio
London and New York, various dates, Composition (J.Ramsey
Whereto), Trees (Gregory Brown), Horses (John Skeaping),
Portraits (Charles Wood), Sail and Sea (Michael Leszcznski),
Locomotives (Paul Mann), Hands (Oliver Senior), Churches and
Cathedrals (Frederick Adams), Houses (Sydney Jones), Tanks
(T.Cuneo), Farm Animals (C.F.Tunnicliffe)
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drawing
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tools of
the trade
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Maya Hambly,
exhibition catalogue, DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, Their History, Purpose
and Use for Architectural Drawings, RIBA Drawings collection, Heinz Gallery
London 1982. Historical introduction, Historical Books,
Lines, Dividing, Circles, Ellipses, Copying, Enlarging and
Reducing, Squaring, Ruling, Curved Lines, Measuring to
Scale, Measuring Angles, Measuring Areas, Proportions and
Ratios, Perspective Aids, Cases of Instruments, Drawings,
Drawing Boards and Tables, Computer-Aided Drawings.
Maya Hambly, Drawing Instruments 1580 -
1980, Sotheby's London
1988. History of the trade, Literary Evidence, and the
categories above.
Henry Petrosky, The Pencil, A History of Design and
Circumstance, Knopf New
York, 1990 critically acclaimed history of the pencil, the
industrial development, 20th century, engineering
etc.
Henry Petrosky, Invention by Design, Harvard University press, Cambridge,
Mass.,1998,see "Pencil Points and Analysis" - pressure,
breakage and making of the wooden case pencil.
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drawing
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figure/
anatomy
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Anton Refregier, Natural Figure Drawing, Tudor Publishing New York 1948. Drawing
materials, drawing from the models, the Clothed Figure,
Anatomy, Light and Shade, Seeing and Thinking, Drawing by
Old and Modern Masters, study of three outstanding
modernists (Frank Kleinholtz, Philip Evergood and Yasuo
Kuniyoshi), work of non-professionals and of Refregier
himself.
Reginald Marsh, Anatomy for Artists, Dover New York, 1945, 1970. Front, side,
back, head, arms/hands, legs/feet, proportions, figure
sketches, and Marsh's own drawings of the Anatomical
Classics e.g Vesalius and the Old Masters Raphael and
Michelangelo.
Victor Perard, Anatomy and Drawing, Perard Publishing New York and Chicago,
1928, , Notes on Proportion, Proportion and Drawing, The
Skeleton, The Head and Neck, The Torso, The Arm, The Hand,
The Leg, The Foot.
VISUAL TELLING OF STORIES
-ANATOMY
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drawing
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critical
historical
studies
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Philip
Rawson,
Drawing, Oxford University
Press, London New York, 1969, The Theoretical Base; Supports
Materials and Implements, their Significance; Technical
Methods; Rhythm and Space; The Subject:Its Nature and
Function: then,The Different Kinds of Drawings.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica, 1910/11 ed,
entry on Drawing, and generally accepted as a text read by
most artists of this and subsequent periods. See
beneath.
Susan Lambert,
exhibition catalogue, DRAWING, technique and
purpose, Victoria and
Albert Museum, London 1981; Introduction; Technique
(Drawing surfaces, Implements and media, Drawing Aids and
Gadgets; Drawing as a
Discipline (scenes of
artists drawing, Drawn copies from the flat, Drawn copies
from the round, Drawing from life, Technical Manuals and
exercises); Drawing as
imagination (Thinking on
paper, Drawing for its own sake); Drawing for utility (presentational drawings, Drawings for
Production in other media, Diagrams and technical
illustration, Record and pattern drawings).
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