About the Book: Landscape Drawing in Pencil
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
textures, as well as the finer points of pictorial composition and drawing from
nature. Based on the authors years of experience teaching art students at all
levels, this book is ideal for home or class use. Its thirty-six evocative
sketches range from English castles to American bridges, with a few detailed
close-ups showing how to surmount some of the problems of depicting rocks,
roofs, standing water, or leafy