Discovering drawing /Sallye Mahan-Cox.

WHAT IS DRAWING? -- A brief history of drawing -- The purposes of drawing -- Drawing for design: Michael Graves tea kettle -- Drawing becomes: Roy Lichtenstein sculpture -- Criticism and the critical process -- Art fundamentals: Line in mark-making -- Drawing media and materials -- How to: Create an oil pastel -- Sketchbooks -- `Drawing on history: Delacroix's Moroccan sketchbooks -- Finding inspiration -- Originality -- Study drawings -- Nontraditional approaches: Sonja Hinrichsen -- Studio experience: Study drawing and original drawing -- Career Profile: Mohamed Zakariya --

THE BASICS -- A brief history of drawing elements and principles -- The formal language of art: The elements of art -- The principles of design -- Drawing for design: Bauhaus weaving workshop -- Art fundamentals: Color theory -- Drawing on history: Goethe's theory of color -- Observational drawing -- Line drawing -- How to: Draw a tree from observation -- Basic shapes -- Framing and sighting -- How to: Use sighting -- Organizing a composition -- Drawing becomes: Spoonbridge and Cherry -- Nontraditional approaches: Drawbots -- Studio experience: Conducting a visual investigation -- Career profile: Nancy Burns --

STILL LIFE -- A brief history of drawing still life -- Organizing a still life -- Defining forms with value -- How to: Draw a still life in contour line -- Drawing for design: an iconic chair -- Defining forms in space -- Single objects as still life -- Drawing on history: The index of American design -- How to: Draw a paper bag -- Collage -- Drawing on history: Papier colle -- Still life as metaphor -- Drapery -- How to: Draw drapery folds, shadows, and highlights -- Drawing becomes: Draper study for a portrait -- Space in still life -- Art fundamentals: Space (element of art) -- Nontraditional approaches: Katharine Morling -- Studio experience: Draped corner still life -- Career profile: Sean Huxter --

DRAWING LANDSCAPES -- A brief history of drawing landscapes -- Seeing and organizing landscapes -- Drawing on history: Thomas Moran and the American landscape -- Organizing space with grounds -- How to: Organize a landscape -- Alternate ways of seeing landscape -- Drawing becomes: Kimono art of Itchiku Kubota -- The elements of landscape -- Art fundamentals: Negative space -- How to: Develop a night landscape -- Creating space with Aerial perspective -- Drawing for design: The high line -- Eye levels -- Nontraditional approaches: Monika Grzymala -- Studio experience: Drawing a landscape -- Career profile: Derrick Wolbaum --

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- A brief history of drawing the built environment -- Organizing constructions in space --Linear perspective -- How to: Draw a city street in one-point perspective -- Drawing on history: Kevin Lynch and the image of the city -- Point of view and the built environment -- Drawing for design: The Holland prize -- How to: Draw with ink and wash -- Art fundamentals: Intentionality and perspective -- More ways to look at the built environment -- How to: Create a charcoal wash -- Expressive uses of the built environment -- Drawing on history: Piranesi's dark visions -- Drawing becomes: Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapped Reichstag -- Nontraditional approaches; Terry Winters -- Studio Experience: Drawing your home -- Career profile: Shiyao Liu --

THE FIGURE -- A brief history of figure drawing -- Purposes of figure drawing -- Ideal figures -- Drawing on history: The classical ideal -- Figure anatomy -- How to: Draw with continuous line -- Drawing for design: Medical illustration -- The artist and the model -- How to: Draw a sighted figure -- Drawing becomes: Michelangelo's study for the Libyan Sibyl -- Foreshortening the figure -- Art fundamentals: Repetition and intensity -- Figure poses and movement -- Drawing on history: Abraham Walkowitz and Isadora Duncan -- The figure in contour and value -- Drawing on history: Allan Houser's ghost dancers -- Expression and the figure -- Nontraditional approaches: Heather Hansen -- Studio experience: Drawing on the canon -- Career profile: Karla Monterrosa --

PORTRAITS -- A brief history of drawing portraits -- Portraits as documents -- Portraits as illustration and exploration -- Drawing becomes: Making an Ukiyo-e woodblock print -- Working with a model -- The portrait poses -- Art fundamentals: Contrast (principle of design) -- Anatomy and the portrait -- Drawing for design: One-sheet movie poster -- Contour portraits -- How to: Create lighting effects -- Focus on the features -- How to: Draw facial features -- Drawing on history: Hockney's camera obscura -- Relating the features -- How to: Create a Trois crayons portrait -- Expressions -- Nontraditional approaches: Marlene Dumas -- Studio Experience: Grounded charcoal portrait -- Career profile: Robert Liberace --

DRAWING ANIMALS -- A brief history of drawing animals -- Basic shapes and animal anatomy -- Drawing becomes: Henry Moore's sheep -- Observing animals -- How to: Create an animal value study -- Drawing for design: Beatrix Potter's animals -- Exotic animals -- Drawing animals in motion -- Drawing on history: Muybridges's motion studies -- Art fundamentals: Visual or implied texture -- Animals with a message -- How to: Use drawing with digital imaging -- Nontraditional approaches: Kim Nam-Pyo -- Studio experience: A hybrid animal -- Career profile: David Sibley --

MAKING MEANING THROUGH DRAWING -- A brief history of making meaning through drawing -- The artistic process -- How to: Create a series -- Art fundamentals: Rhythm and movement (Principle of Design) using texture -- Exploring big ideas -- What is a big idea? -- Personal connections -- How to: Use mark-making as visual language -- Drawing for design: Data made meaningful -- Personal symbolism -- Drawing becomes: Aaron Douglas illustrations -- Abstract and nonobjective art -- Drawing on history: Conceptual drawing -- Nontraditional approaches: Hew Locke -- Studio experience: Visual conversation -- Career profile: Lee Bontecou --

IMAGINARY WORLDS -- A brief history of drawing imaginary worlds -- Creating imaginary worlds -- Seeing the real world imaginatively -- Drawing on history: The lunar lander -- The tools of the imagination -- Art fundamentals: Absurdity -- Creating a narrative -- Drawing for design: Video game concept art -- Cartoons and comics -- Superheroes -- Monsters -- Drawing on history: Monster myths -- Drawing becomes: Creature creation -- How to: Work with markers -- Nontraditional approaches: Phlegm -- Studio experience: Making a storyboard -- Career profile: Sean Andrew Murray.

By emphasizing both technique and creativity, Discovering Drawing highlights the importance of discipline and self-expression. This comprehensive guide to drawing subjects, techniques, and skills addresses the unique demands of contemporary classrooms. Back book flap

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