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The Elements of Drawing
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9. Creativity

Lesson 8. Invention!
The Elements of Drawing
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8. Field Notes

Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.
The Elements of Drawing
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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.
The Elements of Drawing
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6. Measured Drawing

Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.
The Elements of Drawing
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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.
The Elements of Drawing
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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.
The Elements of Drawing
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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.
The Elements of Drawing
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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.
The Elements of Drawing
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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.

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