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    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner: People
    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner: People
    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner: People
    Ebook171 pages42 minutes

    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner: People

    By John Davidson, Paolo Lopez de Leon and Adrian Sanqui

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    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner - People

    Table of Contents
    Drawing Tools
    Body Proportions
    Body Shape
    Polygonal Form
    Ball Joints
    Arms
    Legs
    Muscle Structure
    Heads
    Clothing
    INTRODUCTION TO CARTOONS
    TYPES OF CARTOONS
    ELEMENTS OF A CARTOON
    Large Heads
    Body Proportions
    Props and Objects
    EXPRESSIONS
    Additional Details for Portraying Cartoon Expressions
    FACIAL FEATURES
    Eyes
    Nose
    Mouth
    Ears
    DRAWING A SCENARIO
    AGING YOUR CHARACTER

    Step by step directions and example teaching you how to draw people, their bodies and cartoon people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD-Biz Corp Publishing
    Release dateFeb 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310627361
    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner: People
    Author

    John Davidson

    My coauthor John Davidson was a high school teacher for 25 years and volunteered for the Vancouver Crisis Centre. He recently passed away on November 7, 2021.

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    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner - John Davidson

    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner

    People

    Adrian Sanqui and John Davidson

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    Table of Contents

    Drawing tools

    Body Proportions

    Body Shape

    Polygonal Form

    Ball Joints

    Arms

    Legs

    Muscle Structure

    Heads

    Clothing

    Words from the Artist

    Introduction To Cartoons

    Types Of Cartoons

    Elements Of A Cartoon

    --Large Heads

    --Body Proportions

    --Body Gestures

    --Props and Objects

    Expressions

    Additional Details for Portraying Cartoon Expressions

    Facial Features

    --Eyes

    --Nose

    --Mouth

    --Ears

    Drawing A Scenario

    Aging Your Character

    Last Words from the Artist

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    Drawing tools

    Pencils

    The most important tool you need to be able to enhance your drawing skill is a medium that can be corrected in case you make sloppy line strokes. It is better if you have pencils of different grades so you can have the kind of lightness or darkness you want to make. The ‘H’ engraved near on the pencil’s tip (side of eraser) stand for hardness, it ranges from 2H to 9H. A pencil with only an H mark and doesn’t have a number means 1H, the most common grade of a pencil (pencils without grade marks) is usually a 2H pencil. The B marking on the pencil stands for "blackness, this means the pencil produces a darker marking and is softer than H pencils. It ranges from HB (hard and dark) to 9B (very soft and very dark), and this means the higher the grade, the softer and darker it becomes.

    Mechanical pencil

    A mechanical pencil has a consistent wick or point which makes it easier for you to maintain the thickness of the line marks you produce, instead of sharpening your pencil several times just to have a thin and constant fine point. Different grades of lead or graphite is also available for refilling your mechanical pencil, just makes sure that the size of the point your pencil has is also the same as the pencil leads you refill it with.

    Sharpener

    A regular sharpener is quite dependable if you are using H and low B pencils, but if you are going to use it to sharpen a pencil with very soft graphite cores, it may keep on breaking, most especially if you will use it for a charcoal lead pencil. A

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