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This book, illustrated with drawings in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, and brush and ink, shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light and shade. Hogarth demonstrates how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form and space. He then shows how the silhouette is transformed into three dimensions with the addition of highlights. There is a chapter devoted to each of the five basic categories of light and shade: single-source light; double-source light; flat, diffused light; moonlight; and sculptural light. Natural and artificial light sources are examined, and the effects of the five types of light on a variety of subjects - faces, figures, landscapes, still lifes - are illustrated. Hogarth also explains more complex light effects: how light and shade can create a sense of near and far; how light is affected by weather, time of day, and the changing seasons; how light reveals the surface qualities of forms; the effects of light passing through transparent materials like glass and water; and much more.
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When an artist sits before a sheet of white paper to make a drawing, he sees the picture plane-whether consciously or intuitively-as a field of light. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
When an artist sits before a sheet of white paper to make a drawing, he sees the picture plane-whether consciously or intuitively-as a field of light. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book does what it says on the cover, with a lot (I mean a lot!) of very clear examples. It is not so much a How-to book, but as an example illustration tool it is very good.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
These days drawing is being taught less and less in Art Colleges and Schools. A technical book like this with loads of examples and drawings to copy or be 'inspired' by is just the sort of thing drawers need to keep their skills fresh.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As the author says in his foreword, there don't appear to be many books that deal specifically with the depiction of dynamic and atmospheric light (although there are plenty on shading techniques). His written discussions and analysis of different light conditions and how these determine the way forms appear and should be depicted are clear and authoritative.
However, the accompanying images disappoint on a number of levels: they are reproduced in murky black and white (which does the 'colour' Japanese prints no favours), they are dated (especially those taken from the author's Tarzan strips), cover a limited range of subjects (mountainous landscapes, figures in jungles, numerous portrait heads) and lack context.
If, like me, you have in mind the application of these techniques to drawing comics you're likely to be disappointed by the lack of good examples from that medium. To conclude, you might just want to buy the book for its written analysis and find your own examples elsewhere in art books, comics etc.
However, the accompanying images disappoint on a number of levels: they are reproduced in murky black and white (which does the 'colour' Japanese prints no favours), they are dated (especially those taken from the author's Tarzan strips), cover a limited range of subjects (mountainous landscapes, figures in jungles, numerous portrait heads) and lack context.
If, like me, you have in mind the application of these techniques to drawing comics you're likely to be disappointed by the lack of good examples from that medium. To conclude, you might just want to buy the book for its written analysis and find your own examples elsewhere in art books, comics etc.
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The book was to comic like and not very arty farty in the fine art world.did not find it of any real value or learning anything new about light would be ok for a novice artist.
Published 9 months ago by the widow butler
Good Book For Aspiring Comic Artists
As the father of the Tarzan character and art, and the co-founder of the School of Visual Arts with silas rhodes, Burne Hogarth is far qualified to teach the fundamentals of... Read more
Published on 10 April 1997
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