Reproductions of works by such artists as Degas, Velasquez, and Manet complement this study of the line and mass approaches to drawing.

This great book will teach you how to become a drawing master. It includes about 100 illustrations. It covers the paper, etching, pen and ink, lithography, white chalk, carbon pencil, red chalk, charcoal, lead pencil etc.

Although written in 1913, this brilliant and authoritative guide to drawing is still highly relevant today. Speed, a highly regarded painter in his time, takes the student comprehensively through approaches, techniques and materials and illustrates them all with diagrams and paintings from both his contemporaries and the Masters. He also discusses various aspects of the science and philosophy of art, such as the use of proportion, the nature of talent and the definition of beauty. This handsome new edition from Benediction Classics contains all the original plates and diagrams and would be a...

The Practice and Science of Drawing is a work by English painter Harold Speed, which includes different drawing techniques, including chalk etc. H. Speed died in 1957.

The Practice and Science of Drawing is a work by English painter Harold Speed, which teaches different drawing techniques, including portrait drawing, rhythm lessons, chalk, charcoal, pencil drawing etc. This is an illustrated book and includes about 100 illustrations.

"The best things in an artist's work are so much a matter of intuition, that there is much to be said for the point of view that would altogether discourage intellectual inquiry into artistic phenomena on the part of the artist." Thus writes Harold Speed in the very first line of his introduction to the book in which deconstructs the process of drawing by subjecting it to lucid intellectual inquiry. Published in 1913, "The Practice and Science of Drawing" balances its practical advice with technical insight: a necessary manual for those who wish to master the elements of classical drawing.