Table of contents for the drawing lessons

What materials do you need?
Get rid of everything you don’t need
What materials do you need?
The artists of the Pont Neuf
The detective’s craft
You can’t judge a book by its cover

The trunk
Guess what’s inside!

Let’s open the lid
The method
Material.
It all begins with an idea
Take your time
Fuel your desire
One hand, two eyes and a brain
Your brain gives the orders

Your brain is a notepad
The eye of the owl
The eye of the hawk
Production techniques
The frontier between a drawing and a painting
Is it a drawing?
What characterises a drawing?
Acquiring an expert eye
Paper and supports
Grammage
Substance
Grain
Wash-drawing or water-colour paper
Fibre, coloured or mottled paper
Sketching paper
Everything is possible
Pencils, charcoals, pens
The famous "paper" pencil
Other lead pencils
Red chalk
Coloured pencils and pastels

Brush and felt
Pen and quill
How is a drawing executed?
Line drawing and mass drawing
Two approaches: line or mass drawing
The line drawing approach
The mass drawing approach
How to choose an approach
Size, softness, hardness
Three components
Endless possibilities
The two classic formats
There are several numbering systems
The surface
A surface is not necessarily a plane
What is the purpose of a surface?
Optical contrast
The plane
Rendering objects by planes
A luminous plane is oriented of its own accord
Erasers, blades, stumps and fixatives
Erasers
Soft erasers
Kneaded erasers
Ink erasers
Brushes
"Repairs" and scratching out

Test sheet
Stump drawings
Fixatives
Pencil-sharpeners, abrasives and cutters
Knives and cutter blades
Abrasives
But there’s more to come…!

Drawing a head
The cartoon head
Set yourself a reasonable objective
Nous voyons des têtes partout !
"cartoon" drawings
0+0=55
Balloons

Basic expressions
Neutral face
The elements of expression
Observation of mimics ?
A more realistic head
Canon of the head ?
Organs of the face
Shadow plans

The body
Canon
The various canons
The right canon for us
The wire man
The articulations
Equipoise
ModelMannikin
The articulations
Articular limits
A more realistic body
balloons
3D volume
Hands and feet
Drapes and clothes
Covering
Organising folds
Shadow and light

Perspective
Perspective observed
Distortion by distancing
Distortion by viewpoint
Merging ?
Everything fits into a box
Perspective of the box
Foreshortenings
Planning
Choosing the scene
Choosing the medium

Composition
Balance of masses
Balance of shades
Foregrounds
Choosing the level of detail
Backgrounds
Effects
Landscape
Nature
Sky
Water and the sea
Vegetation
Houses
Doors, windows, roofs
Rocks
Animals

Objects
Vehicles
Furniture
Tools