Draw Anything by Arthur Zaidenberg

Author:Arthur Zaidenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486138312
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

How to Use This Book

There are in this book several thousand drawings of figures, animals, and objects in various positions and in various actions.

In most cases the drawing was made with the intent to show the basic structure in its simplest elements. In many other cases a relatively “finished” drawing is used as a base for display of a costume or to demonstrate a game or a form of work.

The two major purposes of this book are each served by the above two types of drawings. The first purpose is to demonstrate how to construct, in drawing, the figure or object desired, utilizing as a working drawing the “scaffold” forms shown here. These scaffold forms are the essential shapes, reduced to their salient elements, firm bases upon which may be added the details and techniques desired by, and peculiar to each artist.

It is not suggested that the method of reduction to basic structures herein employed is the only possible approach to analysis of a figure or object to be drawn. It is merely suggested here that these basic forms are those which this author has found adequate upon which to build and that the student may employ a similar method without jeopardizing his individual viewpoint or compromising his originality.

The second purpose of this book is to serve as a source of information and research, inasmuch as an attempt has been made to assemble drawing data on virtually every species of figure, animal, and object which the art student may be called upon to draw and which may not be available to him in the original, or if available, not in a position to be drawn.

Many students and professional illustrators collect a voluminous “morgue,” a file of clippings from magazines, newspapers, etc., as a source of research for details needed, at various times, for their special drawing problems.

Though this book does not entirely obviate the necessity for such a file, it may well serve as an adjunct, since, within it, the details of the sought object have been broken down to their basic component parts, predigested as it were, and the student is not confronted with the difficult job of reducing complicated photos or highly detailed drawings to simple terms upon which he may build his own art statement.

In choosing subjects to be included in this book and deciding on the space allotment for each, the author was guided by more personal considerations than a set division of equal space and choice of all the commonplace things mentioned in the dictionary.

First, in choosing, out of the vast number of “things” in the world, he chose such objects as would constitute basic generalizations, from which departures and variations could be made by the user of this book. The second consideration, that of deciding the amount of space to be allotted to a particular subject, was based on the author’s personal experience with the problems of drawing one thing as compared with another. The “hard to draw” things were given more space than the “easy” ones.

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