Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School

Classic Techniques and Expert Tips from the Golden Age of Illustration - Featuring the work and words of Norman Rockwell, Albert Dorne, and other celebrated 20th-century illustrators

Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Magdalen Livesey

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781592536139
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631594137
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Techniques d'art

Learn to draw from the work of amazing artists such as Albert Dorne and Norman Rockwell, the founding artists of the Famous Artists School.

The artwork presented in Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists Schoolis gleaned from the amazing collection of more than 5,000 artworks and hundreds of thousands of other documents found in the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Organized as a series of lessons in classic drawing technique, each chapter offers both process and finished works by the founding artists and other instructors of the Famous Artists School, allowing readers to see a wide variety of approaches to learning how to draw and styles of rendering. 

Enriched throughout with fascinating sidebars and photographs documenting the working methods of master realists, Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School is an invaluable trove of inspiration and information on how to draw.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Welcome
• The Founding Illustrators of the Famous Artists School
• 1 THE ART OF THE STORY
• 2 MAKING IT PERSONAL
• 3 DRAWING AS A TOOL FOR SEEING
• 4 COMPOSING FORBEST EFFECT
• 5 THE WELLDESIGNEDIMAGE
• 6 DRAWING THE FIGURE
• 7 AN EYE FOR COLOR
• Famous Artists Behind the Scenes: Materials and Methods
• About the Authors
• Image Credits
• Index