The Elements of Drawing
The Elements of Drawing
Oxford University
Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies 'The Elements of Drawing', a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/
9. Creativity
Lesson 8. Invention!
Mar 24, 2011
4 min
Video
8. Field Notes
Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.
Mar 24, 2011
1 min
Video
7. With Colour
Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.
Mar 24, 2011
2 min
Video
6. Measured Drawing
Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.
Mar 24, 2011
3 min
Video
5. Making a Livelier Drawing
Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.
Mar 24, 2011
3 min
Video
4. Toned Paper
Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.
Mar 24, 2011
3 min
Video
3. The Edge of the Pencil
Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.
Mar 24, 2011
3 min
Video
2. The Tip of the Pencil
Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.
Mar 24, 2011
5 min
Video
1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing
Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.
Mar 24, 2011
1 min
Video