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Overview
Create Spectacular Landscape Drawings while Mastering the Basics!
Inside Pencil Magic, author and artist Phil Metzger will help you develop your artistic skills with just two simple tools: pencil and paper.
Whether you're a beginning artist or a pro looking to sharpen your skills, you'll find invaluable information for mastering the fundamentals of drawing including:
- Basic strokes including flat, crosshatching and directional strokes
- Drawing styles from quick sketches to detailed blended-stroke drawings
- Strategies for accurately capturing measurements and proportions
- How to draw landscape elements including trees, shadows and paths
- Methods of conquering perspective
Synopsis
With Pencil Magic, readers will learn to improve their artistic skills with just two simple tools: pencil and paper. Featuring invaluable instruction, this guide will help beginning and advanced artists master the fundamentals of drawing, including:-The spectrum of basic strokes, including sharp, crosshatching, and directional strokes -Drawing styles from quick sketches to blended-stroke drawing -Strategies for capturing measurements accurately -How to paint trees, shadows, paths, and other landscape elements -Various methods of approaching perspective With ten step-by-step demonstrations, Pencil Magic appeals to artists at all levels of artistic ability, while making learning the basics easy. Phil Metzger has been painting and selling his artwork for over thirty years. The author of eight fine art instruction books, including Perspective Without Pain, Watercolor Basics, and The North Light Artist's Guide to Materials and Techniques, he lives in Rockville, Maryland.