Drawing Scenery: Seascapes and Landscapes: Seascapes Landscapes

by Jack Hamm

Overview

The how-to handbook that exactly explains and illustrates the step-by-step processes for drawing complete, succesful landscapes and seascapes and teaches the fundamentals of good composition as well as the separate picture elements. This guide combines the simplest kind of scenery sketching with the most complex renderings to give every artist, beginner or professional, essential scenery drawing techniques.

More than 900 diagrams, pictorial explanations, and pictures

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399508066
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/22/1988
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	495,637
Product dimensions:	8.16(w) x 1.08(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jack Hamm is one of the best-selling authors of art instruction books. With nearly a million copies sold, his books have helped aspiring artists of every age and level of ability learn to draw and improve their technique.

Table of Contents

	Introduction to the Basics of Scenery Drawing
	Choosing a "Bounded Space" for a Scene	1
	The Horizontal Rectangle	1
	"Commanding" the Observer's Attention	2
	The Focal Point	2
	The Focal Area	2
	The Relation of Boundaries to the Interior	3
	The Ways of Dividing Space	4
	The Principles of Good Space Division	5
	Creating a Travel Experience for the Eye	6
	Charting the Eye's Course	7
	Principles that Help in Scenery Drawing and Painting	8
	Relating Three Shapes-One to the Other	9
	The Principle of "The Threes"	10
	Telling the Picture Story	11
	The Entering Point in a Picture	11
	"Follow-through" in a Picture	12
	Basic Follow-throughs	12
	Follow-through and Depth Perception	13
	Interior Parenthesis	13
	Overcoming the Blank Page (More on Good Space Division)	14
	Comprehension Factors in a Picture	16
	Co-active Follow-through	17
	Experiment in Comprehension	18
	Emotional Response	18
	Pencils and Papers	20
	The Importance of Form	22
	Base Lines of a Picture	24
	Ground Value Variances	25
	Uneven Earthen Contours	26
	Principle of the "Take-up" Line	27
	Cross-sectioning	28
	"Creating" Distance	30
	Depth and Distance	32
	Contrasting Values	34
	Expectations from Different Values	36
	Putting Subject Matter out of Mind	38
	Leaning Toward the Abstract	40
	The Willingness to Explore	41
	Drawing Trees and Foliage
	Tree Trunks	42
	Tree-a Bold Beginning	43
	Tree Pointers	43
	"Painting" with a Pencil	44
	Tree Talk with Illustrations	46
	Base Lines	48
	Struggling Trees	50
	Twenty Drawings of the Same Tree	52
	Trees and Their Appearance	54
	Drawing Rocks and Mountains
	Edges and Surfaces in Rock Drawing	56
	Drawing Larger Sections of Rock	57
	Field Trips for Rock Sketching	58
	Drawing Rocks Within a Given Space	59
	Variations Inside the Same Outline	60
	Rock Drawing in Other Media	61
	Simple "Flat Lead" Sketches	62
	Creating Rocky Landscapes in Miniature	63
	Elementary Rock Compositions	64
	Interesting Patterns in Rock	65
	Rock-the Unchangeable Model in Art	66
	The Stone Colossus	67
	Drawing Mountain Ranges-an A-B-C Method	68
	Construction Experiment with Mountain Peaks	70
	A Mountain Abstraction	71
	Drawing Clouds and Skies
	Simplifying Cloud Drawing	72
	Cloud Treatments	74
	Cloud Formations	76
	Sunsets and Sunrises	78
	Morning and Evening Skies	80
	Diagram of Cloud Types	81
	Dramatic Cloud Backgrounds	82
	Semi-abstract Skies	83
	More Cloud Effects	84
	Giving Clouds Dimension	85
	Moonlight Scenes	86
	Strong Winds	88
	Wind and Snow	88
	The Upsweep Wind	89
	Wind and Sand	89
	Drawing Water: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Falls
	Reflections in Water	90
	Reflections Under Various Conditions	91
	Drawing Water Surfaces	92
	Puddles and Reflections	93
	Nighttime Reflections	93
	Lighthouses and Water	94
	Lake and Ocean Reflections	95
	Water Talk	96
	Charting the Course of a Wave	98
	Analyzing Waves	99
	Great Waves of the Sea	100
	Where There's Water	102
	Angry and Peaceful Waters	104
	Drawing Waterfalls	105
	More on Waterfalls	106
	Niagara Falls and Stairstep Falls	107
	Drawing Snow and Ice	108
	Drawing Buildings, Large and Small
	Houses in Scenery Drawing	110
	A House Is Built in a Minute	111
	Planes, Values and Forms	112
	A Few Suggested Techniques	113
	Putting Buildings Together	114
	Drawing Towns and Villages	115
	Loose Sketching and Tonal Drawing	116
	Crowded Shacks in a Slum	117
	Different Approaches to Structural Drawing	118
	Recording Planes and Values	119
	Index	120