Learn to DrawTM
By Jon Gnagy
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The original, Learn to DrawTM book by Jon Gnagy, provides superb step-by-step written drawing and sketching instructions with more than 200 illustrations. You will learn basic fundamental drawing, composition, perspective and techniques for landscape, still life, portrait, human figure and animal.
Millions of people have learned to draw with Jon’s very easy method using four shapes, ball, cube, cylinder and cone. This book guides young and old alike awakening their hidden talents... finding fun and happiness through the art of drawing!
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Learn to DrawTM - Jon Gnagy
I BELIEVE… that you have an unexplored talent. My conviction grows stronger every year as I find thousands of people just like you searching to express something. If you have not made a professional career of art I’d like to talk to you all the more.
I BELIEVE that in the life of everyone there comes a time when the Art Spirit is dominant. You may have passed it when you were 5 or 7 or 11 years of age. But it will come again several times in your life when you are looking for something outside your practical everyday routine.
I BELIEVE that you have moments when you drop your cares and wish you could feed that little spark of immortality that needs nourishment from the beauty of the world around you. This universe is full of wonders that few of us see until some part of our brain and soul is reawakened. When we again become aware of the long reaches of the peaks of song, the rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose,
as poet Edwin Markham has so aptly put it.
Jon Gnagy’s book was one of his first published contributions for beginners: to help young and old alike awaken their hidden talents… finding fun and happiness through the hobby of drawing and painting.
MATERIALS
• You need two carbon pencils, a light gray, a dark gray, and a black chalk. You also need a sandpaper pencil sharpener, a kneaded eraser and a piece of ordinary cleansing tissue.
CARBON PENCILS give the blackest lines you can make without using ink. Carbon pencil technique combines better with chalk than graphite does because it does not shine and graphite does give off a gloss.
(Below) When you want to draw fine, sensitive outlines, give your carbon pencil a SHARP ROUND POINT.
Image No. 3(Below) When you want to make bold lines, use the sandpaper sharpener to give a FLAT CHISEL POINT.
Image No. 4TONE WITH PENCIL • Here are three pencil techniques you can use for laying in tones. By drawing lines side by side with either the round or chisel point, by cross-hatching, or lay your pencil on its side.
Image No. 5TONE WITH STOMP • The paper stomp shown below is a special pencil-like roll of stiff paper with a soft tapered tip. Soft tones may be made with the paper stomp by first grinding some chalk on your sandpaper, then roll the tapered end of the stomp in it and smudge the tone onto your drawing paper.
Image No. 6TONE WITH CHALK • Broad sweeping tones can be made quickly by laying a piece of chalk on its side. Softer blending can then be done by going over it with a piece of cleansing tissue or chamois skin or stomp.
Image No. 7WARM-UP EXERCISES
• Every athlete, dancer, singer or performer in any field must practice and practice constantly to achieve success. Just before going on the stage to give a performance every actor does an intense warm-up. He owes it to his audience as well as to his own success to do the best he can, so he goes through his paces. If you expect your hand and pencil to do what you want them to do, be sure to go through these warm-up exercises before doing each drawing lesson.
Image No. 8LINE • (Below) 1 Practice these lines because they cover every direction of stroke you can make. Starting at the left they are vertical, horizontal, diagonal, simple curves, compound curves, and spirals.
Image No. 9SHAPE • (Below) 2 When an area is completely surrounded by line it is called shape. Shape has length and width. But line has only length. The basic shapes are the square, circle, triangle and free shapes.
Image No. 10FORM • (Below) 3 When depth is added to a shape it becomes a FORM, because it has thickness. It then has three dimensions, namely height, width and depth. The four forms below are now called CUBE, BALL, CONE and CYLINDER, because they are no longer just shapes. Every object in nature is made up of combinations of these four basic forms, so the sooner you start looking for them in objects around you, the quicker you’ll draw real pictures. In nature you will find distorted variations of the perfect CUBE, BALL, CONE and CYLINDER.
Image No. 11TONE • (On the forms above) 4 Tone is the overall color of an object. Tone is often referred to as value.
It can be light, medium, or dark in value. In the forms above, the cube, cone and cylinder had an indication of form even