Drawing For Dummies (eBook)

Jamie Platt is an artist and director of the art galleries at the University of Central Missouri where she sees her role as helping to bring people together over art. Jamie has an MFA in painting from Indiana University, in Bloomington Indiana and a BFA in painting from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has exhibited her work widely including recent exhibitions at Manifest in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia and Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City.

Introduction 1

Part 1: Discovering What It Takes to Draw 5

Chapter 1: Gearing Up to Start (and Continue) Drawing 7

Chapter 2: A New Kind of Seeing: Getting Familiar with the Artist's Perspective 19

Chapter 3: Gathering What You Need to Get Started 37

Chapter 4: Working through the Developmental Stages of Drawing 63

Part 2: Developing Basic Skills 77

Chapter 5: Planning Your Drawings 79

Chapter 6: Seeing and Drawing Lines and Shapes 107

Chapter 7: Exploring the Third Dimension 131

Chapter 8: Adding Life to Your Drawings with Shading 165

Chapter 9: Identifying and Rendering Textures 193

Part 3: Experimenting with Subject Matter 207

Chapter 10: Making Meaningful Still Life Drawings 209

Chapter 11: Representing the Natural World in Your Drawings 225

Chapter 12: Bringing Animals to Life on Paper 251

Chapter 13: Drawing People 275

Part 4: The Part of Tens 305

Chapter 14: Ten Tips for Drawing Cartoons 307

Chapter 15: Ten Ways to Grow as an Artist 315

Chapter 16: Answering Ten Common Copyright Questions 325

Index 331