Book Review:

Pencil Drawing Techniques:
How to Master Pencil Working Techniques to Create Your Own Successful Drawings
EDITED by: David Lewis
COPYRIGHT: 1984

Another excellent reource for learning to draw that I've been working with to understand and practice my drawing techniques. The book covers basic materials and aiding to develop preliminary sketches, developing compositions and basic pencil strokes which are great foundations to master drawing.

"Here is a really good book for the artist who wants to develop his or her pencil drawing abilities, whether it's to improve your preliminary sketch work, or to create pencil drawings complete in their own right. Pencil Drawing Techniquesbrings together six of today's best artists, all of whom are incredibly fine instructors as well. The artists show you how to develop your skill and ability in handling pencil technique.

Ferdinand Petrie shows you how to handle pencils and produce a controlled variety of lines, values, and textures. Then he shows you exactly how to use these techniques to draw landscapes in a range of styles and compostitions. Rudy De Reyna explains pencil basics, and explores perspective, size relationships, form and structure. Douglas Graves teaches you how to begin drawing portraits by building a drawing step-by-step. Norman Adams and Joe Singer demonstrate how you can use the pencil to produce spectacular drawings of animals. John Blockley and Richard Bolton show you how pencil drawings can capture the essence of a subject and help you work out a plan for painting it. Finally, Bet Borgeson teaches you all the secrets of colored pencil work and demonstrates a whole new dimension of artistic style and skill you can achieve with color pencil drawings

The book is divided into seven sections: how to handle a pencil, fundamentals of drawing, drawing landscapes, drawing portraits, drawing animals, drawing for watercolors, and handling colored pencils. The copious illustrations throughout show in detail how the artists use their techniques.

For the artist who uses the pencil, Pencil Drawing Techniques is and excellent instructional book of ideas for using the pencil creatively.