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The Elements of Drawing

John Ruskin

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Having thus obtained the power of laying on a tolerably flat tint, you must try to lay on a gradated one. Prepare the color with three or four teaspoonfuls of water; then, when it is mixed, pour away about two-thirds of it, keeping a teaspoonful of pale color. Sloping your paper as before, draw two pencil lines all the way down, leaving a space between them of the width of a square on your chess-board. Begin at the top of your paper, between the lines; and having struck on the first brushful of color, and led it down a little, dip your brush deep in water, and mix up the color on the plate quickly with as much more water as the brush takes up at that one dip: then, with this paler color, lead the tint farther down. Dip in water again, mix the color again, and thus lead down the tint, always dipping in water once between each replenishing of the brush, and stirring the color on the plate well, but as quickly as you can. Go on until the color has become so pale that you c. . . Read More

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5.00
- Jess - Jul 05, 2010

If you want to buy just one drawing book...

Make sure this is the one! I came across THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING at the library on a random day, when I was a wayward 16/17-year-old (I am now 23). I had always wanted to draw, but found many of the drawing books to be not very useful/helpful (as the introd

3.00
- Mass - Jul 01, 2023

In questo intramontabile evergreen, il buon John ci trasmette alcune regole per disegnare bene, ricordandoci cionondimeno di quando in quando che non ci riusciremo mai. A disegnare bene. L'osservazione attenta della natura, e per natura si intendano le foglie, i rami e le chiome degli alberi, è l'or

5.00
- Peter - Oct 30, 2022

Much info. Not just for drawing (ink & pencil) but for colorists as well (to my surprise). Lots of probably tedious exercises .... but necessary (although some look to be fun). Some of these I have stumbled on myself before reading this book (e.g. drawing/shading of stones) - and was somewhat gratif

5.00
- Christa - Jul 02, 2012

Lovely book written in a very dryly humorous style. Teaches accurate execution and delicacy of drawing.

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- Patricia - Mar 31, 2019

I began reading The Elements of Drawing because of James Woods's reference to it in his wonderful book, The Art of Fiction. Woods calls The Elements of Drawing "a patient primer," in which Ruskin "takes his readers through the process of creation." What Ruskin did for drawing and painting in his boo

5.00
- Greg - Sep 09, 2014

Learned a lot from this book.

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