The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

Learn to draw

Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.

Drawing classes

Lesson 2: the edge of the pencil

We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.

Click on the thumbnail images to zoom into the original drawing and to see more information about the object:

The Brezon and Alps of the Reposoir, seen from Mornex: finished pencil Sketch from Nature (Ruskin, John - The Brezon and Alps of the Reposoir, seen from Mornex: finished pencil Sketch from Nature)

Further examples for teachers and students:

Dunstanborough Castle (from the Liber Studiorum) (Turner, Joseph Mallord William - Liber studiorum - Dunstanborough Castle)    Ben Arthur, Scotland (from the Liber Studiorum) (Turner, Joseph Mallord William - Liber studiorum - Ben Arthur, Scotland)

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