The Elements of Drawing

Oxford University

Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies 'The Elements of Drawing', a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/

  • 4 minutes 29 seconds
    9. Creativity
    Lesson 8. Invention!
    24 March 2011, 11:37 am
  • 1 minute 47 seconds
    8. Field Notes
    Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.
    24 March 2011, 11:36 am
  • 2 minutes 51 seconds
    7. With Colour
    Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.
    24 March 2011, 11:36 am
  • 3 minutes 14 seconds
    6. Measured Drawing
    Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.
    24 March 2011, 11:34 am
  • 3 minutes 43 seconds
    5. Making a Livelier Drawing
    Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.
    24 March 2011, 11:33 am
  • 3 minutes 47 seconds
    4. Toned Paper
    Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.
    24 March 2011, 11:33 am
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    3. The Edge of the Pencil
    Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.
    24 March 2011, 11:30 am
  • 5 minutes 51 seconds
    2. The Tip of the Pencil
    Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.
    24 March 2011, 11:25 am
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    1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing
    Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.
    24 March 2011, 11:24 am
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