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| Introduction | |
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| Knowing Your Materials | |
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| Drawing by Fiction | |
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| Graphite: Line, Control, and Properties | |
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| Charcoal: The Oldest Medium | |
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| Tone Techniques with Charcoal | |
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| Artists' Chalks: Warm and Opaque | |
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| Sanguine: A Classic Medium | |
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| The Blending Stump: Many Possibilities | |
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| The Eraser: A Very Versatile Tool | |
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| Colored Pencils: A Love for Detail | |
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| Pastels: Drawing or Painting? | |
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| Different Drawing Papers: Different Characteristics | |
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| Liquid Techniques: Brushes and Inks | |
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| The Wash: A Range of Tones | |
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| Brush Effects | |
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| Inks: Strokes and Effects | |
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| Washes: Effects and Techniques | |
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| Beginning Steps | |
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| Achieving a Professional Stroke | |
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| Training the Hand | |
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| Basic Strokes | |
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| Automatic Drawing | |
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| Techniques to Improve Pencil Control | |
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| Lines, Spirals, and Gradations | |
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| Creating Volume in Drawings | |
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| Hatching: Possibilities and Combinations | |
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| Rings: Three-Dimensional Forms | |
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| Pointillism: A Divisionist Technique | |
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| Gestural and Outline Drawing | |
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| Drawing Proportionately | |
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| Strokes and Profiles | |
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| A Linear Landscape: Controlling the Stroke | |
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| A Theme: Selection and Composition | |
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| Factors in Selecting a Theme | |
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| Composition and Blocking In Shadows | |
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| Using Perspective in the Preliminary Outline Sketch | |
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| Calculating Proportions | |
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| Drawing with Grids | |
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| The "Lorrain Method:" Harmony in the Composition | |
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| Point of View: Transformations in the Model | |
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| Composing Outline Sketches: Balancing the Image | |
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| Balance and Rhythm: A Visual Order | |
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| Light and Atmosphere | |
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| Tonal Techniques | |
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| Shading | |
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| How to Shade: Stains, Tones, and Hatchings | |
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| How to Control the Quality of a Shading | |
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| Dividing Areas: Controlling Shadows | |
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| The Importance of Tonal Gradation | |
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| Tonal Backgrounds: Drawing on Colored Paper | |
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| Contrasts and Volume Effects | |
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| Blocking In and Modeling | |
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| Light and Ambiance: Illuminating the Atmosphere | |
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| Chiaroscuro: Maximum Contrasts between Light and Shadow | |
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| Blending Techniques | |
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| Sfumato: Smooth Contours | |
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| How to Use a Paper's Texture | |
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| Correcting without Erasing | |
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| Depth Effects in Drawing | |
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| Perspective: Basic Notions | |
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| Drawing with Atmospheric Perspective | |
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| The Coulisse Effect: Successive Planes | |
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| A Contrasted Foreground | |
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| Color Drawing | |
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| Colored Pencil and Pastel Drawing | |
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| Conventional Techniques with Pastels | |
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| How to Mix Colors | |
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| Colored Pencil Techniques | |
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| Mixing with Hatching: The Optical Effects of Color | |
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| Feathering and Whitening Techniques | |
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| Scratching and Sgraffito | |
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| Step by Step | |
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| Drawing a Nude | |
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| A Still-life with Sanguine | |
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| Erasure Technique: Drawing Highlights | |
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| A Landscape on Gray Paper | |
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| An Interior with the White-on-White Technique | |
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| The "Three Color" Technique: Drawing with Pictorial Qualities | |
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| The Blending Stump Technique: Just a Blurred Stain | |
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| A Landscape with Chalk Powder | |
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| Sketching with a Charcoal Pencil | |
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| A Still-life with Chiaroscuro Effects | |
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| White Chalk Highlights: An Explosion of Light | |
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| A Landscape with Graphite | |
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| A Flower with Abundant Water, Fluidity, and Sinuosity | |
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| An Interior Patio in Wash | |
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| A Rural Landscape in Washes and Line | |
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| Metal Point Drawing: Texture and Hatching | |
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| The Reed Pen and Its Effects | |
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| Drawing on Colored Paper with White and Black Inks | |
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| A Still-life with Colored Inks | |
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| Controlling the Line: Hatching | |
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| A Dog with Colored Pencils | |
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| A Girl in Watercolor | |
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| The Dry Pastel Technique on a Tonal Background | |
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| An Urban View with Oil Pastels on a Tonal Background | |
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| Index | |