Life Drawing in Charcoal

Acknowledgments Introduction PROJECT 1. Materials and Exercises Charcoal Erasers Blenders Paper Fixative Exercises PROJECT 2. Seeing Tonal Quality Single Light Effect Tones and Their Relationships Learning to See the Tonal World PROJECT 3. The Difference Between Lines and Edges A New Way to Observe Defining Terms Using the Middle Tone PROJECT 4. Objects As They Are Lifting Out Lights Thinking About What You See The Mind's Influence on the Eye PROJECT 5. The Traditional Use of Plaster Cast Figures Charcoal as a Study Medium Squinting to Compare Tones PROJECT 6. Keying A Drawing The Value Scale Value Keys Interpreting Tones and Their Values PROJECT 7. Translating Color to Black and White Judging Color Intensity and Tone Light and Shadow with Color PROJECT 8. Some Basic Figure Proportions Two Goals of Life Study Establishing Proportions Staying Loose and Free "PROJECT 9. Keeping The Figure From Looking "Stiff" Examining Parts of the Body "Movements of the Spine, Shoulders, and Hips" The Expression of Action PROJECT 10. Seeing Large Tonal Masses Mass Versus Detail Simple Statements in Tone Staying Within the Large Tone PROJECT 11. Allignments: Constructive Aids to Correct Proportions Checking Relationships by Alignment Aligning by Triangulation Using Lines for Construction Estimating Contour Angles PROJECT 12. The Recling Figure Using a Measuring Device Proportioning Problems PROJECT 13. Foreshortening Foreshortening as Body Perspective "Drawing What You "See" PROJECT 14. Idealization or Interpretation Copying the Figure Two Creative Directions PROJECT 15. Why Study Anatomy? The Burden of Anatomical Study "Seeing" First - Anatomy Second" PROJECT 16. Male and Female Figure Distinctions Comparison of Anatomical Differences Some Standard Proportions "Fat Deposits, Subcuaneous Prominences, and Hair" PROJECT 17. Negative Shapes Seeing Negative Shapes Using the Grid Tone Mosaics PROJECT 18. Two Sources of Light Values and Secondary Lights Reflected Light and Double Contrast Geometric Poses PROJECT 19. A Tour of the Life Class Working over the Whole Figure Seeing Larger Tone Masses Preconceptions and Figure Distortions Preoccupation with Detail Self-Concepts and Figure Relationships PROJECT 20. Controlling Edges Textural Qualities of Edges Making Hard and Soft Edges "PROJECT 21. Scupturing, Modeling, and Rhythm" Modeling for Added Dimension Rhythm and Composition Constant and Progressive Rhythms PROJECT 22. Movement and Muscles Controlled Falling The Moving Figure Arm and Leg Movements "PROJECT 23. Drawing the Face, Head, and Hands" Placement of Facial Details PROJECT 24. Different Modes of Charcoal Rendering PROJECT 25. Composing a Figure On a Page PROJECT 26. Mass Drawing in Fast Action Poses Warming-up with Quick Sketches Contour and Gesture Sketches Making Lines with Tonal Media PROJECT 27. Line Drawing: A Bonus from the Mass Approach Expressing Light and Shadow in Line Tonal Drawing as a Step to Line A Final Word Index