Drawing for Pleasure

Drawing requires a minimum of equipment and materials but it is by no means confined to the medium of pencil. There are many exciting combinations to be enjoyed, such as charcoal and watercolour, pen and ink and watercolour, and pencil and charcoal. Experiment with these different media and you will discover the endless pleasures to be found in drawing. Many people think that drawing lacks excitement because it is not colourful in the way that painting can be, and they therefore treat it as a discipline, or as just a preliminary to painting. In this book, however, the author shows many different approaches to drawing that you may not yet have investigated. He also demonstrates the different textures that can be achieved, the importance of tone, and how to deal with composition and perspective.