Sunday, February 21, 2010

Pencil Drawing for Fun

Pencil Drawing for Fun was a pulp drawing instruction book published in 1952 by Fawcett Books.  The company was started in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton Fawcett (Wikipedia article). The book was edited by Larry Eisinger, who edited a bunch of Fawcett's books.

The book combined drawing lesson from various sources including Andre Loomis' Fun with a Pencil and Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Pencil Drawing for Fun

How to draw - and have fun with a pencil and pen (Fawcett books;no.396)

 
How to draw heads using the divided ball and plane.

 
How to draw hands using the relationships between the knuckles.

 


 
How to draw the figure, notice how the finished drawing makes the figure more slender and elongated following the convention of the 1950s.

 
How to use perspective when drawing the figure and how to use foreshortening when drawing the figure.

Pencil Drawing for Fun at Abebooks.com.

Books by Andrew Loomis:

Fun WIth a Pencil  Figure Drawing for All It's Worth  Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Walter Foster Art Instruction Series, 191 - Figure Drawing)

Fun With a Pencil

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Walter Foster Art Instruction Series, 191 - Figure Drawing)

50 results for Figure Drawing for all It's Worth at Amazon.com

 Figure Drawing for All It's Worth at Abebooks.com.











Dibujo de Cabeza y Manos (Spanish Edition)

FIGURE DRAWING FOR ALL ITS WORTH: JAPANESE LANGUAGE EDITION








Related e-book
A Guide to Better Figure Drawing by Cecile Hardy
Line of Action - Drawing from the Model - Creatively
Clothing the Figure Drawing
The Glamour Girl

Charles Robinson - Art Nouveau Illustrations for The Sensitive Plant

 The Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley, as illustrated by Charles Robinson and published by William Heinemann, London/J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia circa 1911. With introduction by Edmund Gosse. Printed by the Ballantyne Press, London.

Illustrated edition of Shelley's romantic poem showing both Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite influences in the illustrations.

The Sensitive Plant illustrated by Charles Robinson, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 22 copies for sale at Abebooks.com

One copy is for sale on Ebay Click here to see it for sale on Ebay

Another copy at Amazon.com: The Sensitive Plant







   


  


  


Additional examples of Charles Robinson's work at John Coulthart's blog:

Charles Robinson's Alice's Adventure inWonderland

The Art of Charles Robinson (1870-1937)

Another example at Lines and Colors.

Google Books copy of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson with illustrations by Charles Robinson.

Google Books copy of Lullaby Land, Songs of Childhood with illustrations by Charles Robinson.

Here is the poem: The Sensitive Plant

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Monday, February 15, 2010

D. N. Maillart - Academic Paintings

 

Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices, Slayer of Monsters, The Death of Correus

 

Feeding Pets, Hector et Paris


Joan of Arc by D. N.Maillart
From The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of all Nations ans all Ages

He taught at the Académie Suisse.

Prints of his paintings are for sale on Ebay Click here to see them for sale on Ebay.