xx The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Lisa thanks her sister in laughter, Lauren Jarrett, for making this book a particularly easy and fun-filled journey. Not only do we share warped senses of humor, Lauren can outdraw the best of ’em. Special Thanks to the Technical Reviewer The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing was reviewed by an expert who double-checked the accuracy of what you’ll learn here, to help us ensure that this book gives you everything you need to know about drawing. Special thanks are extended to Dan Welden. Dan Welden took time from his own busy schedule of printing, teaching, and writing a book about his own special solar etching techniques. He is unfailingly helpful and encouraging to all who ask his help and expertise. Dan Welden is a printmaker and painter who has had more than 50 international solo exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. His teaching experience includes 10 years of full-time teaching at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Central Connecticut State University, as well as many years as an adjunct professor at Suffolk Community College and Long Island University. As a Master Printmaker, Dan Welden has collaborated with or printed for many prominent artists in- cluding Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Esteban Vicente, Ibram Lassaw, Eric Fischl, Louisa Chase, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Dan Flavin, Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, and Kurt Vonnegut. Dan Welden is director of Hampton Editions, Ltd., and resides in Sag Harbor, New York. Trademarks All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be or are suspected of being trademarks or service accuracy of this information. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. marks have been appropriately capitalized. Alpha Books and Pearson Education cannot attest to the Part 1 Drawing and Seeing, Seeing and Drawing Learning to draw is learning a skill, and, like other skills that require practice, you can do it if you try. Getting past your fears and the thought that “you can’t draw” is the first step. It will help to discover the difference between your critical left brain and your creative right brain—and then learn how to banish “Old Lefty” out to left field, where he belongs. He is no help when learning to see and draw, and learning to “just see” will send him packing. In this section, we provide exercises to help you loosen up and warm up your drawing hand, as well as help you begin to see as an artist does. . ’em. Special Thanks to the Technical Reviewer The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing was reviewed by an expert who double-checked the accuracy of what you’ll learn here, to help us ensure that. response to life as Part 1 ➤ Drawing and Seeing, Seeing and Drawing 4 knowing which roots were good to eat and which were good to rub on wounds. In prehis- toric times, drawings were used to ➤ Exchange. Drawing 8 Looking Through the Barriers The ability to draw is really the ability to see to see what’s really there, and transfer it to paper. The key is to see as an artist sees. Artists process visual