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Ihave waited for such a book to appear which could be recommended to the many young artists with whom T haye come in con- tact. I recall how frantically, in the earlier days of my own experi- cence, I searched for practical information that might lend a helping hand in making my work marketable, Being in the not unusual position of having to support myself, it was the predica- ment of having to make good at art or being forced to turn to something else.
Across this wide country there are many of you in that predicament. You, also possessed of that unaccountable urge which seemingly comes from nowhere, want to speak the language of art, You love to draw. You wish to draw well. If there is any chance, you greatly wish to make a living atit. Perhaps I can help you. I sincerely hope so, for I think T have lived through every minute you are now living. Perhaps I can compile some of the information that experience tells me you want and need.
I do not pretend to undervalue the fine work that has been done; the difficulty has always been in finding it and sorting out what is of practical value and putting it into practice. Figure drawing without a model pdf free download believe that the greater chances of success lie in the mental approach to the work, rather than in sheer technical knowledge, and since the mental approach has not often been stressed, here lies the opportunity to serve you.
Inot only assume that my reader is interested 15, in drawing but that he wishes from his toes up tobecome an efficient and self-supporting crafts- man. I assume that the desire to express your- self with pen and pencil is not only urgent but almost undeniable, and that figure drawing without a model pdf free download feel you must do something about it.
Stripping a subject to its barest and most efficient essentials is a mental procedure. Every inch figure drawing without a model pdf free download the surface of his work should be considered as to whether it bears important re- lationship to a whole purpose. He sees, and his picture tells us th portance of what he sces and how he feels about it. Then within his pic- ture he stresses what is of greatest importance, and subordinates what must be there but is of lesser importance.
He will place his area of great- est contrast about the head of the most im- portant character, He will search diligently for means to make that character express the emo- tion in facial expression and pose that is to be the all important figure drawing without a model pdf free download.
He will first draw at- tention to that character, by every means avail- able. In other words, he plans and thinks, and does not passively accept simply because it ex- ists. Today with color photog- raphy and the excellence of the camera going perhaps even further in that respect, we are sur- feited with realism par excellence, until mere lifelike representation is not enough, There is no other course than somehow to go beyond ob- vious fact to pertinent fact, to characterization, to the emotional and dramatic, to selection and taste, to simplification, subordination, and ac- centuation.
It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you /17813.php. Equally defining everything within your picture area, in value, edge and detail, will add no figure drawing without a model pdf free download than ean be achieved in photography. Subordination may be achieved by diffusion, by closeness of color and value to surrounding areas, by simplification of i tent detail, or by omission. Aecentuation is achieved by the opposite in each case, by sharpness, contrast, detail, or any added device.
I take this opportumity to impress upon you, my reader, how important you really are in the whole of art procedure. You, your personality, your individuality come first. Your pictures are your by-product. Everything about your pic- tures is, and should be, a little of you.
They will be a reflection of your knowledge, your ex- perience, your observation, your likes and dis- likes, your good taste, and your thinking, So the real concentration is centered on you, and your work follows along in the wake of what mental self-improvement you are making.
It has taken me a lifetime to realize tha. So before we talk at all about drawing, it is important to sell you strongly on yourself, to plant that urge so def- initely in your consciousness that you. Asa student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become an artist.
There is a for- mula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, 16 and forever secking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of do- ing over that which you can improve.
I have ссылка на подробности found a book that stressed the importance of myself as the caretaker of my ability, of stay- ing healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.
Perhaps that is not the way to write books, but I can sce no harm in the author realizing that he is dealing with personalities, and that there is something more important than technique. In art we are dealing with halo ce free download full pc far removed from a cold science, where the human element is everything.
At least I am de- termined to established a fellowship with my reader, welcoming him to the craft at which T have spent so many years. If I have any blue chips T can pass on to him, Iay them before him so that he may join in the game. I cannot pro- fess to know more than the experience of one individual. However, one individual experience if wide enough might well cover many of the problems that will doubtless come to others. Solutions of those problems may provide like solutions.
I can lay out an assortment of facts and fundamentals that were helpful to me. I can speak of the idealizations, the practical hints and devices that will undoubtedly make drawings more salable.
Since the requirements are almost universal, and since my own experi- ence does not vary greatly from the average ox: perience of my contemporaries, I offer my ma- terial without setting up myself and my work as acriterion. It means that a figure must be convincing and appealing at figure drawing without a model pdf free download same time.
It must be of idealistic rather than literal or normal proportion. It must be related in perspective to a constant eye level or view- point. The anatomy must be correct, whether exposed to the eye or concealed beneath drapery or costume. The light and shadow must be so handled as to impart a living quality. Its action or gesture, its dramatic quality, expression, and emotion must be convincing.
Good drawing is neither an accident nor the result of an inspired moment when the Muses lend a guiding hand. Good drawing is a co-ordination of many fac- tors, all understood and handled expertly, as in a delicate surgical operation. It is when the means of ex- pression is developed as a whole that inspiration and individual feeling come into play. It is pos- any вот ссылка or more of the factors.
The artist should, of course, make a critical analysis to de- termine why a drawing is bad; usually he will be forced to go back to fundamentals, for bad drawing springs from basic faults as figure drawing without a model pdf free download as good drawing springs from basic merits, Therefore a useful book of figure drawing cannot treat one phase alone, as the study of anatomy; it must also seck out and co-ordinate all the basic factors upon which good drawing depends.
It must consider both aesthetics and sales possibilities, technical rendering and typi- cal problems to be solved. Whenever 17 you achieve sufficient technical ability, there will be an income waiting for you.
From that point on your earnings will increase in ratio to your improvement. In the fields of practical art the ranks thin out at the top, just as they do everywhere else. It is mediocrity to which the door is closed. Un- fortunately most of us are mediocre when we start out; by and large, most commercial artists of outstanding ability had no more than average talent at the start.
May I confess that two weeks after entering art figure drawing without a model pdf free download, I was advised to go back home? That experience has made me much more tolerant of an inauspicious beginning than I might other- wise have been, and it has given me additional incentive in teaching. Individuality of expression is, without ques- tion, an artist's most valuable asset. You could make no more fatal error than to attempt to duplicate, for the sake of duplication alone, either my work or that figure drawing without a model pdf free download any other individual, Use another's style as a crutch only—until you can walk alone, Trends of popularity are as changeable as the weather.
Anatomy, perspec- tive, values remain constant; but you must dili- gently search for new ways to apply them. The greatest problem here is to provide you with a solid basis that will nurture individuality and not produce imitation.
I grant that a certain amount of imitation in the earliest phase of figure drawing without a model pdf free download may be necessary in order that self-expression may have an essential background. But there can be no progress in any art or craft without an accu- ulation of individual experience. The experi- ence comes best through your own effort or ob- servation, through self-instruction, the reading of a book, or the study of an old master.
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