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| Preface | |
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| Groundwork | |
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| Philosophy and Purpose | |
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| Emphasis on Your Learning Process | |
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| The Importance of Limiting What Is Taught | |
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| Basic Drawing Skills | |
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| Emphasis on Still Life | |
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| The Illustrations | |
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| Organization | |
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| Basic Skill | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercises | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Sketchbook Exercises | |
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| Drawing Critiques | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Be Positive and Not Overly Self-Critical | |
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| Follow All Directions Carefully | |
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| Spend a Sufficient Amount of Time on Each Drawing | |
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| Learn from Others | |
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| Basic Materials | |
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| Basic Materials for Chapters 2-6 | |
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| Basic Materials for Chapters 7-11 | |
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| The Drawing Environment | |
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| Work Area | |
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| Next Step | |
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| Seeing | |
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| Drawing the Outlines of Shapes | |
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| Focusing on the Visual Relationships of Shapes | |
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| Drawing the Rectangle of the Picture Plane | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 1 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Line Quality and Its Importance | |
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| Benefits of Not Erasing | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 1 | |
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| Patience | |
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| Looking Carefully and Drawing Slowly | |
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| Looking for Variety in Shapes | |
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| Drawing Shapes in Relation to Each Other | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 2 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 3 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Composition and Touching the Edges of the Picture Plane | |
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| Improving the Quality of Lines | |
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| How to Correct When You Can't Erase | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 2 and 3 | |
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| Positive Shapes and Negative Spaces | |
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| Focusing in a Different Way | |
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| Keep Your Attention on the Negative Spaces | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 4 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Filling the Entire Picture Plane with Shapes | |
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| Maintaining a Slow Drawing Pace | |
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| The Importance of Seeing Negative Spaces | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 4 | |
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| Structure and Texture | |
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| Looking Closely at Structure and Texture | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 5 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 6 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Positioning Objects with Composition in Mind | |
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| Looking at Lines and How They Function | |
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| Maintaining a Slow Pace | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 5 and 6 | |
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| Spatial Depth and Texture | |
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| Looking Closely to Differentiate Textures and Shapes | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 7 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 8 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Ordering a Detailed Composition | |
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| Creating a Variety of Textures with Line | |
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| A Shifting Field of Positive and Negative Spatial Relationships | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 7 and 8 | |
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| Value | |
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| A Personal Approach to the Medium | |
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| Development of the Drawing Surface | |
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| Materials | |
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| Seeing Value Relationships | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 9 | |
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| Local Value | |
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| From General to Specific | |
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| Benefits of Beginning with a Ground | |
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| Taking Advantage of the Materials | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 10 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Develop the Drawing in Layers | |
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| Be Aware of the Surface of the Drawing | |
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| Create a Full Spectrum of Values | |
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| Define Edges of Shapes with Care | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 10 | |
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| Volume and Depth | |
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| Building Complex Value Relationships | |
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| Creating Volume with Value | |
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| External Light Source and its Affect on form | |
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| Value Shifts at the Edges of forms | |
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| Value Shifts on the Surface of forms to Describe Texture | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 11 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 12 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Use Charcoal in a Personal and Effective Way | |
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| Be Aware of the Drawing Surface | |
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| Develop Balance in the Composition | |
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| Observe the Complexities in Light and Shadow | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 11 and 12 | |
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| Perspective | |
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| Creating Perspective Through Observation | |
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| The Importance of a Fixed Point of View | |
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| Making and Using a Viewfinder | |
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| Choosing a Vertical Line to Use as a Reference Point | |
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| Value as it Relates to Shadows | |
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| Instructions for Beginning the Basic Drawing Exercises | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 13 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 14 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Understanding the Concept of a Fixed Point of View | |
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| Vertical Constant and the Skill of Making Comparisons | |
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| Using the Edges of Your Paper | |
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| Using Value in Shadow Areas | |
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| Using Value to Define the Forms of Shapes | |
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| The Importance of Drawing What You See | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 14 and 15 | |
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| Developing Expression | |
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| Luminosity in Drawing | |
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| Range of Four Values in Drawing | |
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| Black-and-White Drawing | |
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| Drawing Surface | |
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| Reduced Values | |
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| Depiction of Depth with Value | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 15 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 16 | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 17 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Simplify Use of Value | |
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| Be Aware of the Drawing Surface | |
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| Abstraction and Personal Expression | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 15, 16, and 17 | |
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| Using Gesture Drawing | |
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| Gesture Drawing | |
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| Eye-Hand Coordination | |
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| Developing Distinct Marks | |
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| Basic Drawing Exercise 18 | |
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| Refining Your Skills | |
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| Working Rapidly | |
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| Directional Lines | |
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| Drawing Surface | |
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| Unique Quality of Marks | |
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| Sketchbook Assignment | |
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| Drawing Critique | |
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| What Are the Objectives? | |
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| How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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| Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 18 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critiques | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Suggestions on Further Reading | |
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| Index | |