Archive for category Author: Denis John-Naylor
Drawing Trees & Flowers || Margaret Eggleton and Denis-John Naylor
Posted by Henry in Author: Denis John-Naylor, Author: Margaret Eggleton, Publisher: Search Press, Series: Drawing Masterclass, Subject: Flowers, Subject: Techniques, Subject: Trees on Oct 23, 2020
Trees (Drawing Masterclass) || Denis John-Naylor
Posted by Henry in Author: Denis John-Naylor, Medium: Drawing, Publisher: Search Press, Subject: Trees on May 5, 2016
If you want a comprehensive guide to drawing almost any variety of tree using pencils or pens (including ballpoints), you need look no further than this.
As befits a masterclass, this begins with materials and surfaces and moves to methods, including the use of photographs and measured drawing as well as the all-important line and tone that are the mainstay of the work included. There is then a discussion of the shape of individual trees, both in full leaf and as bare branches in winter. This is a valuable section that explains the way trees vary as much as people in terms of individuality and stresses the importance of observation. The bulk of the book is then taken up by a series of exercises that work through the ideas and techniques previously discussed and introduce further detail and with the depiction of trees in a landscape, which is probably how most people are going to draw them.
The structure and artwork are superb, but there is a strong reservation regarding the reproduction, which I’ve noticed in other titles in this series. The contrast seems too sharp and tends to reduce the illustrations to blacks and whites without the subtle grey scales that are essential, especially in the pencil work. It obscures detail and negates much of the good work done by the author.
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Drawing Step-by-Step
Posted by Henry in Author: Carole Massey, Author: Denis John-Naylor, Author: Richard Box, Author: Ronald Swanwick, Author: Sally Michel, Medium: Drawing, Publisher: Search Press on Oct 13, 2009
This is one of those bind-ups of smaller titles that Search Press does from time to time and does rather well. It’s not at all obvious that this is a collection of books which have previously appeared in the Leisure Arts series and material which would normally repeat from one to the other has been removed so that, for example, you only get one introduction to materials, not several authors saying virtually the same thing. I’d tell you how many different books you get for your money if I could but, frankly, I can’t spot the joins. At £12.99, they’re excellent value for money as long as you don’t already have a comprehensive collection of the originals.
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