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Arthur Leighton Guptill

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Description:PREFACE. AN ARTISTIC conception is susceptible of translation into graphic expression through a variety of media, but by a certain universality of custom, or perhaps more accurately of convenience, the familiar lead pencil has achieved a significance derived from its immediate association with all forms of pictorial delineation. One may speak of it as a kind of staff upon which the artist or the drafts- man leans most heavily. But this popular accept- ance or recognition has, curiously enough, failed to carry with it an equivalent degree of appre- ciative comment or of authoritative instruction in the technique of its individual employment. Therefore, an examination of the text and illustra- tions contained in this volume must be of special and compelling interest to any one of artistic pro- fession or aspirations, for in his accomplished and excellent interpretation of the potentiality existent within the pencil, Mr. Guptill is practically a pio- neer. By far the greater acknowledgment must be given, however, to the very definite stimulus contained in this volume toward a really effective educational development among architectural draftsmen. The atelier system which offers an inexpensive means of acquiring certain architectural training, based on the general principles of instruction at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, nevertheless, stops short of completeness from the lack of stress placed on the important element of free-hand drawing. Great emphasis is properly laid on the solution of the plan and its presentation but the adherence to the mechanical method more or less predicated in the drawing of the two-dimensioned plan, has been car- ried with almost equal insistence into the study of the three-dimensioned elevation. Out of this prac- tice has grown a kind of formalized T-square and triangle "indication," much in vogue, and with scarcely more suggestive value than the working drawing produced with the other mechanical para- phernalia of ruling pens, compasses and dividers. Most draftsmen avoid the blunted pencil point as they would a plague. A large part of their time is spent in sharpening the pencil to the length and sharpness of a needle. With such an implement their horizon is narrowed down to the production of scale drawings and the conventionalized sectional hatchings indicative of various materials. Form expressed in the graceful, flowing suavity of line becomes a remote possibility under such conditions. If I am dwelling with some insistence upon the value of free-hand drawing, it is not in disparage- ment of instrumental drawing, nor with any view to its neglect. It is rather in the desire to build something more vital and engaging on this founda- tion of mechanical skill which will result in the draftsman becoming ever increasingly more of a draftsman that I most earnestly recommend this book. Mr. Guptill has with every evidence of suc- cess endeavored to assist the draftsman out of this automatic conventionalized indication into the realm of appreciation of the greater artistic possibilities lying within himself. To suggest to others a way of increasingly beautiful accomplishment is ob- viously no slight contribution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Drawing and Sketching in Pencil. To get started finding Drawing and Sketching in Pencil, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: PREFACE. AN ARTISTIC conception is susceptible of translation into graphic expression through a variety of media, but by a certain universality of custom, or perhaps more accurately of convenience, the familiar lead pencil has achieved a significance derived from its immediate association with all forms of pictorial delineation. One may speak of it as a kind of staff upon which the artist or the drafts- man leans most heavily. But this popular accept- ance or recognition has, curiously enough, failed to carry with it an equivalent degree of appre- ciative comment or of authoritative instruction in the technique of its individual employment. Therefore, an examination of the text and illustra- tions contained in this volume must be of special and compelling interest to any one of artistic pro- fession or aspirations, for in his accomplished and excellent interpretation of the potentiality existent within the pencil, Mr. Guptill is practically a pio- neer. By far the greater acknowledgment must be given, however, to the very definite stimulus contained in this volume toward a really effective educational development among architectural draftsmen. The atelier system which offers an inexpensive means of acquiring certain architectural training, based on the general principles of instruction at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, nevertheless, stops short of completeness from the lack of stress placed on the important element of free-hand drawing. Great emphasis is properly laid on the solution of the plan and its presentation but the adherence to the mechanical method more or less predicated in the drawing of the two-dimensioned plan, has been car- ried with almost equal insistence into the study of the three-dimensioned elevation. Out of this prac- tice has grown a kind of formalized T-square and triangle "indication," much in vogue, and with scarcely more suggestive value than the working drawing produced with the other mechanical para- phernalia of ruling pens, compasses and dividers. Most draftsmen avoid the blunted pencil point as they would a plague. A large part of their time is spent in sharpening the pencil to the length and sharpness of a needle. With such an implement their horizon is narrowed down to the production of scale drawings and the conventionalized sectional hatchings indicative of various materials. Form expressed in the graceful, flowing suavity of line becomes a remote possibility under such conditions. If I am dwelling with some insistence upon the value of free-hand drawing, it is not in disparage- ment of instrumental drawing, nor with any view to its neglect. It is rather in the desire to build something more vital and engaging on this founda- tion of mechanical skill which will result in the draftsman becoming ever increasingly more of a draftsman that I most earnestly recommend this book. Mr. Guptill has with every evidence of suc- cess endeavored to assist the draftsman out of this automatic conventionalized indication into the realm of appreciation of the greater artistic possibilities lying within himself. To suggest to others a way of increasingly beautiful accomplishment is ob- viously no slight contribution.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Drawing and Sketching in Pencil. To get started finding Drawing and Sketching in Pencil, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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