Landscape Drawing in Pencil (Dover Art Instruction)

Very nice book it has taught me about shading, which will help me with wood burning as well as pencil drawing. I definitly recomed this book for anyone.

High quality images and solid teachings. Can be applied to many other artists such as pink and ink. Good value and a helpful purchase.

Many good examples of the author's drawings, but very little instruction on the process.

A good reference book.

My dad is a technical guy so when this book doesnt go into overly flowery detail, hes a happy camper. It shows you what stroke with what pencil to use to achieve what youre looking for.

Just plates of completed work. Simple, high-level points discussed, but no step-by-step instruction or approaches to drawing landscapes.

It's good if you want reference images with barely any words written about the picture. Most pictures contain only slight words on shading being darker there or lighter here, but not much else. No instruction on how to recreate any of the beautiful sketches for ourselves. It's great for reference, like I said, but it just wasn't what I was expecting-But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. I read through it and I realized that step-by-step books can only teach so much. But a book like this-one that tells you how to create different textures then illustrates them for you to see and study closely-teaches you more than you'd think possible by just looking at pictures.Makes you slow down and think about what you need to do to create what you want. It's perfect in that, as well as showing some beautiful artwork with techniques a bit dated, but not bad at all.

This is not a book for beginners. As the author states in the introduction, it is aimed at students who have had some training and experience drawing and have some knowledge of freehand perspective. It is meant “to arouse an interest in the art of pencil technique, especially as it pertains to out of door subjects.” The book was originally published in 1929. The technique referred to is the now all-but-forgotten technique of broad stroke drawing or pencil painting where “each stroke is made in some definite direction, and then left that way...” Other proponents of this technique include Theodore Kautzky (“The Ted Kautzky Pencil Book”), Earnest W. Watson (“The Art of Pencil Drawing”), Ferdinand Petrie (“Drawing Landscapes in Pencil”) and Carl Purcell (“Drawing with Your Artist's Brain”). The strength of this book is in the 22 finished drawings reproduced of a size and quality allowing study of the various strokes used in their creation. A succinct description is provided with each explaining a particular problem solved in the drawing. If you appreciate this type of drawing and are looking for samples to study, this is one of the few books available that is dedicated to the technique.