Drawing Magazine - How to Draw a Head Plus 101 Drawing Materials (Spring 2013)

Drawing, Spring 2013

Format: Magazine

You'll love this issue of Drawing if:

You want to learn more about drawing materials

You?re interested in portrait drawing

You?d like to draw your home and neighborhood

Each issue of Drawing provides working artists with information and inspiration regarding the foundation of all art: drawing. If you are an artist working in charcoal, graphite, Cont?, or colored pencil, this is the magazine for you. This issue looks at multiple artists who take radically different approaches to the same subject?the landscape?and the wildly different outcomes that occur. It also examines a variety of drawing media that are available to artists and the results you can get from using those materials.

Highlights in the Spring 2013 issue of Drawing include:

Tips on How to Draw the Head in Perspective

Three Approaches to Contemporary Landscapes

The Winners of the Shades of Gray Competition

Features

Building Materials

A sponsored guide to drawing materials.

Demonstration: Modeling Through Form and Light

By Scott Waddell

When creating a portrait drawing, Scott Waddell pays constant attention to how light hits the changing surfaces of the model?s forms. In this demonstration the artist, an instructor at the Grand Central Academy of Art, explains the steps he takes to truthfully depict that relationship and bring his drawing to a satisfactory conclusion.

The View From Here

By Austin R. Williams

The Cont? drawings and watercolor paintings of Matthew Daub depict real places, but the artist manipulates these scenes in any way necessary to communicate his emotional experience of the landscape.

Drawn From Nature

By Kenneth J. Procter

Marvin Saltzman paints in his North Carolina studio, but for inspiration, he travels?and draws?all around the world.

Charles Ritchie?Reflections

By John A. Parks

This Maryland artist uses his home and neighborhood as the starting point for deeply personal drawings, journals, and prints.

Drawing Materials 101

By Lauren Kirchner

Our survey course spells out the essential facts about graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil.

Drawing Fundamentals: Introduction to Foreshortening?The Head

By Jon deMartin

Foreshortening is challenging, but by paying attention to the basic shapes that underlie complex forms, you can learn to believably represent these subjects as they twist and turn in space.

Colored Pencil Noir

By Austin R. Williams

Joseph Crone, the winner of Drawing?s Shades of Gray Competition, uses black colored pencil to create cinematic drawings infused with mystery, madness, and melancholy.

The World in Shades of Gray

Winners of Drawing?s 2012 competition.