Gary Greene (1)
Auteur de Creating Textures in Colored Pencil
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Œuvres de Gary Greene
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- male
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 450
- Popularité
- #54,506
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 25
The author's approach also varied from my favorite botanical illustration book by Ann Swan, so I'm slowly learning which techniques are broadly accepted and which ones are more personal preference. Do I keep the graphite under drawing like Ann Swan or do I trace around it with colored pencil and eventually erase the graphite like Gary Greene? Do I use graphite to aid in shadows and do the shadows first like Ann Swan or do I use only the graphite for initial outlines and work with light colors first like Gary Green? In time I'll know my own preferences and come across others.
I love the subjects for the tutorials. Like mentioned earlier, some books--most?--use a lot of nudity complemented with other urban and anthrocentric images. This simply doesn't appeal to me. I appreciate still life, but I largely prefer animals, countryside, and nature. This book included those and had an overall rural feel. Despite the use of student grade materials I love how my donkey face and wintry barn scene turned out. Meanwhile I definitely need more work on reflective surfaces like bottles and pans, but they were a fun challenge between nature subjects.
In the section about materials this is the first book I've read that includes detailed information about solvents. I already returned the book to the library so I can't mention what other materials Greene mentioned, but I was relieved that isopropyl alchohol can be used--one less item for me to get at the art store!
This book was also the first I've read that clarified what you call an artwork done in colored pencil--indeed, it's called a painting. I wasn't sure if it was a drawing. Sometimes it's awkward to put so much time into something and call it a drawing. Drawing sounds more like a quicker investment or a preliminary layer to a painting. When you consider watercolor pencils and solvents it makes it even more weird to say drawing. Good thing it's a painting!
I do caution that with this book in particular that it's better to have a complete artist tool box. To properly do all the tutorials you'll need artist grade pencils and paper--otherwise you'll a had time layering and burnishing, which are two of the demonstration sections. The other two require solvents and watercolor. The last section is a combined techniques section, including a fun-looking environmental portrait of someone release an elaborately-colored hot air balloon.
The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil: Over 40 Step by Step Demonstrations for Both Traditional and Watercolor Pencils is easily my favorite general art book so far. I bypass many books because they're hard to follow, have a distasteful style, or don't have appealing subjects, but all of these issues are nonexistent in The Ultimate Guide. It suits my learning style and interests almost perfectly.… (plus d'informations)