Landscape Drawing Books

Barron's Drawing & Painting Fantasy Landscapes & Cityscapes Drawing & Painting Fantasy Landscapes & Cityscapes ISBN: 0764132601

Artists interested in graphic novels and comic book illustration will find all the guidance and inspiration they need to draw and paint landscapes that evoke myths and legends, lost empires, futuristic planets, dramatic dreamscapes, underwater worlds, and subterranean cities. Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step illustrations demonstrate techniques for rendering a wide range of fantasy features, whether working in ink, watercolor, or computer pixels. This good-looking and instructive volume features a gallery of fantasy and science fiction images among its more than 200 color illustrations.

Dover Landscape Drawing Step by Step Landscape Drawing Step by Step

This easy-to-follow guide by noted artist and teacher Wendon Blake offers a wealth of valuable tips and suggestions for recording the beauty of nature on drawing paper. Stressing the value of on-the-spot drawings, Mr. Blake's clearly written manual provides time-tested advice on training your powers of observation: judging proportions of typical landscape forms such as boulders, trees and clouds, learning how to judge light and dark areas of a subject to convert to black and white tones, and much more. You'll also find a host of valuable pointers on how best to use pencil, chalk, charcoal and tools, establish linear and aerial perspectives, and how to transform cubical, cylindrical, rounded and irregular shapes into such natural forms as mountains, forests, sand dunes, trees, meadows, shorelines, and other geographical features. Paperback, 80 pages.ISBN 486402010 Dover

Dover Landscape Drawing in Pencil Landscape Drawing in Pencil ISBN: 0486450023

Concise and beautifully illustrated, this guide provides invaluable instruction on the art of pencil drawing. It covers the basics of holding the pencil, applying different strokes, shading, perspective, and the rendering of different materials, as well as the finer points of pictorial composition and drawing from nature. Book specifications: paperback, 64 pgs., 8 3/8 in. x 11 in. Publisher: Dover, 2006.