Drawing Perspectives, Volume 2

This is a book about drawing.
It is called Drawing Perspectives, Volume 2.
It helps you learn to draw things that look far away or close up.
This is called space in a drawing.

A teacher named Kristen R. Kennedy wrote this book.
Other people helped too.
Some people checked the book for mistakes.
One person helped edit the words.

Money for this book came from a special school fund.
The fund is called FIPSE.
It comes from the U.S. Department of Education.
But this book is not a rule from the government.

You can share this book with others.
You can even change it a little.
But you must say who made it first.
You must let others share it too, the same way.

Some pictures in this book came from students.
Please do not copy student pictures.
Keep them just in this book.

Some pictures are open for anyone to use.
Some pictures are art made by a computer.
A computer helped write parts of the book too.
It helped make lists of words and outlines.
A grammar-checker helped fix mistakes in the writing.

What Is Inside the Book

This book has a Preface.
The Preface talks about why drawing is important.
It talks about learning new drawing skills.
It tells you how to use the book.
It shows example drawings.
It talks about being creative.
It talks about thinking carefully.
It talks about using your time well.
It talks about a safe place to draw.

Chapter 1 is called Drawing Fundamentals.
This means the basic parts of drawing.
It talks about pencils, charcoal, and crayons.
It talks about chalk, colored pencils, and ink.
It talks about tools and paper for drawing.

It also talks about how to plan a picture.
This is called composition.
It talks about small sketches called thumbnails.
It talks about empty space and full space in art.
It talks about shapes, lines, and color.
These are called visual elements.
It talks about rules that make art look nice.
These are called principles of design.

It talks about ways to make good pictures.
One way is called the Rule of Thirds.
Another way is called the Golden Ratio.
It talks about focal points.
A focal point is the main thing you look at.
It talks about leading lines.
These are lines that guide your eyes.

It talks about mixing dark and light.
This is called value contrast.
It shows ways to make dark and light marks.
These ways have names like hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling.
Other ways are called scribbling, blending, and chiaroscuro.
Chiaroscuro means using light and dark together.
Another way is called rendering.

The chapter ends with practice work.
There are sketchbook exercises.
There is a drawing project.
There is a chance to think and talk about art.

Chapter 2 is called Developing a Unified Body of Work.
This means making art that goes well together.
It talks about making a series of drawings.
It talks about keeping the same idea in each one.
It talks about keeping the same style too.
It talks about how ideas can grow and change.
It talks about showing your art nicely.
It talks about growing as an artist.
It talks about growing as a working artist too.