Drawing and Sketching in Pencil (Dover Art Instruction) by Guptill, Arthur L. (2008) Paperback

by Arthur L. Guptill

This guide to mastering the art of pencil drawing offers clear, concise instruction on composition, outline, proportion, perspective, light and shade, and individual style. Its 66 illustrations encompass many subjects — mainly architectural, but also people, animals, and landscapes — and demonstrate a variety of techniques, with insights and guidance for every artist.

Genres: Art, Drawing

Paperback

First published November 9, 2007

About the author

Arthur Leighton Guptill

Reviews

[january · Rating 4 out of 5]

”If one desires to learn to draw, let him draw and
draw and draw.”

Fantastic book on pencil drawing, especially the first chapters are a gold mine of knowledge. It gets a little repetitive in the second half and is very much geared towards a job that doesn’t exist anymore (who hires an illustrator to design a building these days). The book is also very text heavy and the formatting is not great either, but honestly you can’t expect a modern layout from a book that’s 100 years old.
Anyways, brb gushing over Guptill’s pencil renders.

[Reuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a 2007 unabridged republication of Sketching and Rendering in Pencil, originally published by The Pencil Points Press, Inc. New York, 1922. Although modern drawing instruction books include many of the same points, this book definitely has the feel of an earlier time, including more detail than one usually finds today and expecting a longer period of drawing apprenticeship and more disciplined practice than is now common. This book also differs from some others I have seen in that while it covers a variety of drawing subject matter, it focuses on the pencil drawing skills needed for the student of architecture.

[Kathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too verbose for me. Page after page of dense prose.