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Drawing Made Easy

A Book That Can Teach You How to Draw

By Charles Lederer
Founder Lederer School of Drawing; Book Magazine and Newspaper
Illustrator; Artist-Author of "The Junior Cartoonist"
and Other Juvenile Books

All Illustrations by the Author

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Drawing Made Easy

Drawing Made Easy
Published in 1913. The author has taken great care to provide a complete course in drawing for the young artist and student. Each lesson builds on the preceding one in a way that makes it fun to learn to draw. This would make an excellent addition to clasroom art lessons and could serve as a home-study course.

From the CONTENTS:

I. Advice to Teachers ii
II. Materials for Drawing 16
III. Clay Modeling 22
IV. Preliminary Instructions - Elementary Practice 24
V. Outlines for Beginners 26
VI. Elementary Lines 31
VII. Early Exercises 37
VIII. Simple Story Pictures 47
IX. Paper Cutting and Paper Folding 54
X. Use of Models - Measurements - Proportions. 67
XI. Method of Copying by Triangulation.. ... 72
XII. Two-Handed Exercises 82
XIII. Exercises Stimulating the Imagination 86
XIV. Blocking-in 9
XV. Action Drawing 94
XV1. Pastel-Stenciling ioo
XVII. Drawing Flowers 114
XVIII. Solid Black Effects 121
XIX. Drawing Men, Women and Children 128
XX. Expression and Emotion 138
XXI. Cartooning—Comic Drawing 148
XXII. Drawing Animals 158
XXIII. Principles of Composition j68
XXIV. Light and Shade 172
XXV. Drawing from Nature 184
XXVI. Drawing in Charcoal and Crayon ‘9’
XXVII. Elementary Perspective 201
XXVIII. Foreshortening 221
XXIX. Geometrical Forms 227
XXX. Tracing and Transferring 248
XXXI. Lettering 254
XXXII. Ornamental Art 262
XXXIII. Penand-Ink Drawings 284
XXXIV. Working Drawings 305
XXXV. Water Colors 314
Glossary 329
Index 341

350 Pages Including and Index and Glossary - Illustrations on nearly every page.
A great introduction to drawing
for the young artist. $4.95

350 Pages Including and Index and Glossary - Illustrations on nearly every page.
A great introduction to drawing
for the young artist.
A great introduction to figure drawing.
$12.20 $4.95

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