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lechniciues by Harry Borgman Techniques and materials abound, but what materials do you select for a certain job and how do you use them to obtain the effects you want? For beginning or intermediate artists and illustrators these questions are often major concerns in their desire to become more accomplished and skilled. Harry Borgman, the noted author of Drawing in ink and Landscape Painting witli Markers, has now written a guidebook for artists and illustrators that explains how to work with a wide variety of mediums— individually and in combination with each other.

After a brief introduction, Borgman begins with a case history outlining one of his

own

illustration assignments from its initial concept to the finished illustration and covers subjects such as: deciding on a

reference

color sketching, finding

style,

material,

and doing comprehensive

outs.

He devotes

book

to the various

lay-

the next section of the

methods of working in mediums: pencil, ink line, ink tone, markers, watercolor designer's colors, acrylic p'^ints, and mixeo "ledia. For each of these mediums, Borgman often eight different

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shows, in step-by-step format, several techniques for developing an illustration. A 32 page four-color section follows, showing all of the demonstration pieces in their finished form.

a concluding section containing adBorgman gives the readers the benefit of his professional experience on subjects such as finding ideas, making corrections, using drawing aids and tools, and developing yourself as an artist. This chapter adds essential information every artist or illustrator needs to know. Art and Illustration Techniques will serve as an invaluable guide to the artist, illustrator, or student who wants to expand his In

ditional hints,

and ideas. The easy-to-follow text and step-by-step demonstrations make skills

this

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a necessary, drawing-board resource.

76 pages. &'A x 1 1 (21 x 28 cm). 40 color 200 black and white illustrations.

plates.

Index.

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drawing different strokes and lines using and a high quality red sable No. 3 brush.

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drawing straight lines of even weights, then where the weights vary from light to very

lines

drawing even, ruled lines by bracing your a ruler. Try the same thing using a brush. This is an important and useful exercise. Practice

per. holder against

to start with.

When

the brush

is

a

little

drier, interesting effects

can

be achieved.

Draw brush light to dark.

textures

Try the

and tones that graduate from same thing using the pen.

dark.

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DEMONSTRATION 4 Loose Ink Line on Smooth Bristol Board Of the many ink styles and techniques, I favor a loose rendition as I have used in this demonstration. I often use a fine-pointed technical pen for this type of drawing. For the black accents, I sometimes use a brush or a pen that draws a heavier line, such as a Speedball lettering pen. Speedball pens come in a great variety of styles, weights, and points. Here, I use smooth-surfaced bristol, which

has no surface texture, so your pen will glide smoothly across without snagging. Lightlytextured boards also work very well for pen drawings, but you must be a little more careful when working. This drawing is done from photographs taken at a rodeo. In one of the later color demonstrations, I use other photos taken the

same day.

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