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A comprehensive guide, featuring a wide variety of drawing media including graphite, coloured pencils, charcoal, chalks, pastels conte crayons, water soluble pencils and pens, and techniques from making marks and creating tone and texture to mixing and overlaying colours.

A showcase of pencil works by a master of the medium, this volume explains Paul Calle's process and provides a fantastic gallery of demonstrations and inspiration for artists at intermediate to advanced levels. Calle - whose clients have included NASA, the National Park Service, Ladies' Home Journal, and the U.S. Postal Service - explores pencil drawing as a serious medium rather than just a preliminary to painting. Starting with a brief history...

From impossible shapes to three-dimensional sketches and trick art, you won't believe your eyes as you learn to draw optical illusions in graphite and colored pencil. Perfect for beginning artists, The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions begins with a basic introduction to optical illusions and how they work. Jonathan Stephen Harris then guides you step-by-step in creating mind-blowing pencil drawings, starting with basic optical illusions and progressing...

"In Pencil Art Workshop, artist and illustrator Matt Rota shows to achieve various techniques using graphite, and includes the work of an international gallery of artists for inspiration"-- Provided by publisher.

"Mastering Colored Pencil presents all the traditional as well as contemporary techniques artists need to draw with this amazing versatile medium. Included are over 15 step-by-step demonstrations and thoughtful exercises that are sure to help every artist achieve striking results with pencils"-- Provided by publisher.

"Offers step-by-step lessons on how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, common objects, and animals using only two ordinary pencils." -- (Source of summary not specified)

"With Drawing Is for Everyone, you can learn how to build a daily drawing practice and how to set intentions and create, even if you have just 10 minutes a day. The projects draw inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, and invite experimentation with a variety of sources. You'll pursue your personal passions through accessible projects as you build your drawing skills, confidence, and creativity." -- Back cover.

A range of projects for the reader to draw, from simple still lifes and full-blown landscape compositions to individual portraits. Beginning with the basics of mark-making, learn how to create sensational artworks in easy steps. Chapter topics include marks and materials, line drawing, tonal drawing, observation in drawing, proportion and perspective, composition, interiors, around the house and exteriors, and drawing a local scene.