INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
How to See Form
To capture the beauty and grace of the human body, view the figure as a collection of planes and shapes, and pay close attention to light, shadows, line quality and the third line.
CHAPTER 2
Training Your Hand
Drawing skill is a result of hard work, practice and acquirable eye-hand coordination—not talent.
CHAPTER 3
Action and Gesture
Find the model’s gesture and learn how to use it as a guide in your drawing process.
CHAPTER 4
Making Better Lines
Master how to portray linework evocatively and combine it with tonal mass to create powerful drawings.
CHAPTER 5
A Portrait of the Hand
Train your eye to draw hands in a way that allows them to serve as portrait—almost as important as the face itself.
CHAPTER 6
Dynamic Heads
Putting life into a head drawing requires assimilating it with the rest of the body, capturing an attitude and using historically dependable techniques to capture a facial likeness.
CHAPTER 7
Putting Together the Human Form
How to analyze and correctly draw different areas of the body, and then bring them all together in one unified form.
CHAPTER 8
Drapery on the Human Form
Drapery has an anatomy all its own, and the knowledge of it helps you to analyze and draw folds on the human form.
CHAPTER 9
Composing Your Drawings
Learn how to achieve balance, rhythm and contrast in a drawing.
CHAPTER 10
How to Use Narrative in Your Art
Discover ways to make your narrative drawings and paintings speak eloquently to the viewer.
CONCLUSION