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With Pencil Magic, readers will learn to improve their artistic skills with just two simple tools: pencil and paper. Featuring invaluable instruction, this guide will help beginning and advanced artists master the fundamentals of drawing, including:
• The spectrum of basic strokes, including flat, crosshatching and directional strokes
• Drawing styles from quick sketches to detailed blended-stroke drawing
• Strategies for capturing measurements and proportions accurately
• How to paint trees, shadows, paths, and other landscape elements
• Various methods of conquering perspective With ten step-by-step demonstrations, Pencil Magic appeals to artists at all levels of artistic ability; while making learning the basics easy.
Phil Metzger has been painting and selling artwork for over thirty years.
The author of eight fine art instruction books, including Perspective Without Pain; Watercolor Basics: Perspective Secrets; The North Light Artist’s Guide to Materials and Techniques as well as The Artist’s Illustrated Encyclopedia, he lives in Rockville, Maryland.
8 1/2"x11", 216 p., pb, 550 b&w illus., March 2004 #33045
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