About the Book: The Practice and Science of Drawing
In this book, the author approaches the dynamic aspect of drawing and paintings
from many different points of view. He plays the historical against the
scientific, theory against precise artistic definition. He begins with a study
of line drawing and mass drawing, the two basic approaches the artist needs to
learn. Further sections carry the artistic vision through unity and variety of
line and mass, balance, proportion, portrait drawing, the visual memory,
materials and procedures. Throughout, Speed combines historical backgrounds,
dynamic aspects which each technique brings to a work of art, and specific
exercises through which the young draughtsman