Sketching and Drawing - A Personal View - Rahul Deshpande Rahul Deshpande

Pencil and paper are the most preliminary but important materials which open the creative world of drawing to artists. There are many ways to handle the pencil.

In this book, artist Rahul Deshpande shows tonal drawing with pencil, focusing on outdoor landscape studies. He explains how this approach helps as a foundation for creating paintings in any medium later on. He also shares some thoughts on drawing, observation skills, composition, tonal representation and shadow patterns.

Along with a variety of subjects, this book will encourage art lovers, art students and professional artists to handle pencil as a tonal medium.