The Joy of Drawing

- Dedication
- About the Author
- PrefaceChapter 1 Mindfulness
- Introduction
- What Is Mindfulness?
- Stop-Time Out-(No where to go, let it go, just be, take this time for yourself)
- Brain and Drawing
- Brain and Nervous System Benefits from Mindfulness and Drawing
- The Evolution of Drawing
- Prehistoric Drawings
- Early Civilizations
- Classical World
- Middle Ages
- The Renaissance
- The 1800s and 1900s
- Contemporary Drawing
- Representational
- Abstract
- Mark-Making
- Essential Materials and Tools
- Materials
- Drawing Mediums
- Types of Paper
- Drawing Mediums
- Accessories
- AssignmentsChapter 2 Line
- Line
- Exploration of Lines
- Gesture Drawing
- Discover a New Way of Drawing and Seeing
- Process of Gesture Drawing
- Mass Gesture Drawing
- Contour Line
- Types of Contour Drawing
- Blind Contour or Pure Contour Drawing
- Contour Drawing
- Cross-Contour Drawing
- AssignmentsChapter 3 Value
- Value
- Light and Dark
- Different Effects Using Value
- Chiaroscuro
- Sfumato
- Value Scale
- The Elements of Light-Value Relationships
- Methods for Creating Value
- Continuous Tone
- Hatching
- Crosshatching
- Toned Surface
- Materials and Value
- Brush-Wet and Dry Medium
- AssignmentsChapter 4 Shape
- Shape
- Shape-Volume
- Geometric Shapes
- Organic Shapes
- Negative and Positive Space
- Using a Viewfinder
- Composition
- Materials
- AssignmentsChapter 5 Texture
- Texture
- Seeing Is Feeling: Texture in Art
- Eating a Raisin, Mindfully
- Actual Texture
- Physical Texture
- Surface Texture
- Visual Texture
- Illusionary Texture
- Trompe l'oeil
- Trompe l'oeil versus Photorealism
- Photorealism
- Pattern
- AssignmentsChapter 6 Perspective
- Perspective
- Change the Way We See the World
- Linear Perspective
- One-Point Perspective
- Two-Point Perspective
- Three-Point Perspective
- Imaginary Perspective
- Atmospheric Perspective
- Perspective Terminology
- Ellipse
- The Perspective of a Circle
- AssignmentsChapter 7 Color
- Color
- Color Physics
- Physical Properties of Light-Physics of Color-Color and Light
- Color Theory
- Color Wheel
- Three Basic Properties of Color
- Hue
- Value
- Intensity
- Light and Pigment
- Additive and Subtractive Color
- CMYK-Subtractive Mixture-Pigments
- RYB-Color Subtractive
- Warm and Cool Colors
- Color Harmonies and Schemes
- Monochromatic Color
- Analogvous Color
- Complimentary Colors
- Triadic Color
- Split Complementary
- Tetradic Color Scheme
- Color Interaction-Simultaneous Contrast
- Optical Effects of Color
- Expressive-Emotional Effects of Color
- Color Media
- Dry Color Drawing Mediums
- Pastels
- AssignmentsChapter 8 Human Figure and Portraits
- Human Figure and Portraits
- History of Figure in Drawing and Art
- Proportions and Anatomy
- Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man from 1492
- Human Figure Proportions
- The Skeletal and Muscular System
- Muscles
- Ways to Draw the Human Figure
- Gesture
- Dance and Gesture
- Contour and Figure Drawing
- Value and Figure Drawing
- Color-Figure
- Representational Figures
- Expressive Figures
- Drawing the Figure
- Head Structure: Proportion
- Frontal Vie
- Profile View
- Three Quarter View
- Skull
- Examples of Portrait Drawings
- Self-Portrait
- Constructing a Portrait
- Guidelines
- Basic Shape
- AssignmentsChapter 9 Skechbooks and Master Artist
- Sketchbooks and Master Artist
- How to Start?
- Ideas for Sketchbook
- Going to Museums
- Artist Sketchbooks
- Sketchbooks of Scientist, Explorers, Archechtect's
- Copying Master Artist
- Sketching on other Papers
- AssignmentsChapter 10 Digital Art and Drawing
- Digital Art and Drawing
- Scanned Drawings
- Scanning 3-D Objects
- Collage
- Photography
- Drawing on the Computer, Tablets, or Smartphones
- Drawing Hardware
- Art Applications
- Computer Art Software Programs
- Software Programs
- Augmented Reality
- Creating a Virtual Sketchbook-Advantages of Digital Art
- Artist Examples-Digital Drawing
- Art Therapy Use of Drawing on iPad
- Storage-Google Forms
- Assignments