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other media.To paint wellyou need to beableto draw.Fortunately the ability to draw is inborn-practically anybody can be taught how to do it.  \nStarting Drawing explains the principles of drawing tothe complete beginner.It takes you through the basicmaterials,showing how to become familiar with thediffering qualities of pencil,charcoal and ink.Bygiving various practical exercises and projects based onobserving objects tobe found in the home,it guidesyou through the problems of line,tone and space.These will enable you to develop the skill to produceboth drawings as the basis for paintings and fine worksthat are a pleasure in themselves.  \nThe Author  \nJason Bowyer is a practising artist who teachesdrawing to amateur artists and to art students.He hashad several exhibitions and received various awards,including the Elizabeth Greenshield Award(1983)and the Daler-Rowney Award(1986)at the RoyalAcademy Summer Exhibition.  \nf6.95 Net UK  \nJASON BOWYER  \nSeries EditorKen Houard  \nB LOOMSBURY  \nTo Claire and Craven Cottage  \nAll rights reserved:no part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying or otherwise,without the priorwritten permission of the Publishers.  \nFirst published in 1988 byBloomsbury Publishing Limited,2 Soho Square,London W1V 5DECopyright Swallow Publishing Ltd 1988  \nConceived and produced bySwallow Publishing Ltd,Swallow House,11-21 Northdown Street,London N19BN  \nEditors:Alison Leach and Catherine TilleyArt director:Elaine PartingtonDesigner:Jean HoyesPhotographer:Tim ImrieStudio:Del and Co.Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo  \nNote:Throughout this book,American terms are signalledin parentheses after their British equivalents the first timein each section they occur.In frame and artworkmeasurement,height always precedes width.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nBowyer,Jason  \nStarting drawing.—(Art class).  \n1.Drawings-Manuals  \nI.SeriesI.Title741.2  \nISBN0-7475-0127-0  \nContents  \nForeword by Ken Howard 4  \nTonal techniques 28Dark to light and light to dark 29Introduction 6Using charcoal 30Working with ink 31Tonal theatre 32Recommended kit 9Basic equipment 10Organizing a small space 13A charcoal drawing 34Sitting and standing to draw 13A drawing in pen and wash 37Stretching paper 14  \nMaterials,equipment and the workspace 8  \nProjects:Tonal drawings 34  \nMixed media techniques 40Basic line techniques 16Mixed media line techniques 41Lines in pencil 17Mixed media tonal techniques 42Lines in dip pen and brush 17Further ideas 44Working from observation 18Looking at straight lines 18Looking at curves 19Window-partial view 47Looking at crumpled paper 19Window-full view 49Further ideas 51Measurement techniques 20Drawing an object sight-size 22Producing a study 53Drawing a group of objects 24A walk with my sketchbook 55Further ideas 27The river 58  \nProject:A window in mixed media 46  \nMeasurement and proportion 20  \nProject:Using a sketchbook 52  \nIndex 60  \nAcknowledgements 60  \n# Foreword\n\n‘Why have I never seen that before?\"These words were said tome many years ago by a man who had paused on his way towork for a few moments to watch me draw.Although he madethat journey through the same landscape every day,it seemedthat for the first time he had seen the view that had been beforehis very eyes all along.This process of opening people's eyes isone ofthe great values of drawing and painting.  \nIn addition to opening other people's eyes,it is equallyimportant to open one's own eyes.Drawing is a way of seeing.By that I mean drawing from nature actually makes you seenature,it opens your eyes to the world around you.  \nDrawing,like writing,has a grammar.Just as writing ismade up of the letters,words,sentences and paragraphs,drawing is made up of marks,lines,shapes and tones.Whenwe are young we 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