num_pages: 176
description: Zen of Drawing inspires you to pick up a pen pencil or an iPad and start drawing what you see with a 'zen' approach.Author Peter Parr has spent his career in animation successfully teaching people to draw and encouraging students to nurture their skills through observational drawing. He advocates a fresh way of looking closely at your subject and enlisting an emotional response in order to fully appreciate the nature of what you are about to draw.You will learn that whatever you are drawing it is essential not only to copy its outline but also to ask is it soft smooth or rough to the touch? How heavy is it? Is it fragile or solid? Then having grasped the fundamental characteristics or zen of the object make corresponding marks on the paper  crisp textures a dense wash a scratchy or floating line.The chapters keeping a sketchbook; tools (pen pencil charcoal watercolour and iPad); perspective; line and volume; tone and texture; structure and weight; movement and rhythm; energy balance and composition.
language: English
title: Zen of Drawing: How To Draw What You See
publisher: Batsford