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Author / Creator: Brown, Clint, 1941-
Other Authors / Creators:McLean, Cheryl, 1957-
格式: 图书
语言:English
版:Second edition.
Imprint: Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, [1997]
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Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
书本目录:
  • Section 1. The Fundamentals
  • 1. Learning to See
  • An Important Tradition
  • The Mind's Eye
  • The Right Frame of Mind
  • 2. A Sketch to Build On
  • The Drawing Process
  • Learning from the Old Masters
  • The Sketch as Part of the Creative Process
  • The Figure's Gesture, The Artist's Hand
  • Expressing Volume, Weight, and Mass
  • The Schematic Sketch
  • The Compositional Sketch: Figure-Frame Relationship
  • The Expressive Content of a Sketch
  • In the Studio
  • 3. Proportions, Perception, and Perspective
  • The Search for a Standard of Proportions
  • The Eight-Heads-High Standard of Proportions
  • Sight Measuring Proportions
  • Plotting the Body's Proportions
  • Learning to See: Beyond Preperception
  • Perspective and Its Influence on Proportions
  • The Development of Linear Perspective
  • Structural and Planar Analysis
  • In the Studio
  • 4. The Magic of Line
  • The Function of Line
  • The Phrasing of Line
  • In the Studio
  • 5. Value as Light and Form
  • Rendering Light and Modeling Form
  • Continuous Tone
  • Hatch and Cross-hatch
  • Integrating Value Techniques
  • Toned Paper and Color Media
  • In the Studio
  • Section 2. Anatomy
  • 6. Foundations of the Human Structure
  • A Brief History of Artistic Anatomy
  • Learning from the Masters
  • Anatomy as a Whole
  • Anatomy of the Torso
  • Articulation of the Limbs and Trunk
  • Anatomical Differences Between Male and Female Figures
  • In the Studio
  • 7. Anatomy of the Limbs
  • The Leg
  • The Arm
  • The Hands
  • The Feet
  • In the Studio
  • 8. Heads and Portraits
  • The Proportions of the Head
  • The Anatomy of the Head
  • Variations in Orientation of the Head
  • Age and Gender Differences
  • Portrait Variations
  • Self-Portraits
  • In the Studio
  • Section 3. Composition and Expression
  • 9. Composition and the Figurative Formalist
  • A Figurative-Formalist Bias
  • Composition
  • Breaking Up the Pictorial Space
  • The Abstract Concerns of the New Realist
  • Light as Structure: The Camera's Influence
  • Toward Expression
  • In the Studio
  • 10. Expression and the Figurative Humanist
  • Expressing Empathy
  • Expressing Social Concerns
  • Self-Expression
  • Expressing Sensuality: Nude versus Naked
  • Expressing Cultural Identity
  • Expressing Subconscious Reality
  • Expression and Composition
  • In the Studio
  • Appendix A. Becoming Your Own Best Critic
  • Appendix B. Drawing Tools and Materials
  • Endnotes
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Useful Websites