The purpose of this book is to help you get started in the art field, help you with advanced information if you are an experienced artist, learn the vocabulary of art, and provide you with handy art references. It is oriented toward improving the right hemisphere of your brain.
It will give you the basics to get you started in fine art, commercial art, graphic art, or technical art. You are starting at the right place whether you are a young person leaning toward an art job or a retired senior or just getting ready to retire.
This book is for people who want to do art work but don’t know how and also for experienced artists who want a basic reference handbook and advanced training.
Why is a person artistic and you are not? It is because that person is using a different part of the brain than you. They “see” things differently than you because they are interpreting what they see in a different way than you are. An artistic person looks at the world in terms of shapes, lines, colors, and the relationships between these things.
The left side of the brain does logical thinking; where as the right side does visual thinking. Therefore, right brainers think like artists.
Consequently, a left brainer must start using the right hemisphere of the brain to learn to be an artist. Left brainers have the potential of becoming great artists by using both hemispheres equally. If you are a left-brainer, then the best part is you can increase your brain power in all of your endeavors by using both sides of your brain.
This book includes basic and advanced art information, tips, formulas, techniques, procedures, and a glossary. We will take you by the hand and guide you step-by-step through the learning process. You will start at the very beginning and learn the basics—step by step.
Chapters 1 through 8 will guided you through sketching, proportions, perspective drawing, orthographic projection, figure drawing, basic color, color sketching, and composition.
Chapters 9 through 16 you get instructions on painting materials, styles and techniques, landscape painting, portrait painting, camera-ready art and typography, and calligraphy.
The subjects covered are those that you should know in order to produce satisfactory art work.
It will give you the basics to get you started in fine art, commercial art, graphic art, or technical art. You are starting at the right place whether you are a young person leaning toward an art job or a retired senior or just getting ready to retire.
This book is for people who want to do art work but don’t know how and also for experienced artists who want a basic reference handbook and advanced training.
Why is a person artistic and you are not? It is because that person is using a different part of the brain than you. They “see” things differently than you because they are interpreting what they see in a different way than you are. An artistic person looks at the world in terms of shapes, lines, colors, and the relationships between these things.
The left side of the brain does logical thinking; where as the right side does visual thinking. Therefore, right brainers think like artists.
Consequently, a left brainer must start using the right hemisphere of the brain to learn to be an artist. Left brainers have the potential of becoming great artists by using both hemispheres equally. If you are a left-brainer, then the best part is you can increase your brain power in all of your endeavors by using both sides of your brain.
This book includes basic and advanced art information, tips, formulas, techniques, procedures, and a glossary. We will take you by the hand and guide you step-by-step through the learning process. You will start at the very beginning and learn the basics—step by step.
Chapters 1 through 8 will guided you through sketching, proportions, perspective drawing, orthographic projection, figure drawing, basic color, color sketching, and composition.
Chapters 9 through 16 you get instructions on painting materials, styles and techniques, landscape painting, portrait painting, camera-ready art and typography, and calligraphy.
The subjects covered are those that you should know in order to produce satisfactory art work.
