Barron's Beginner Art Guides are substantial books that pack in lots of information at a value price. Covering the fundamentals of art, each guide provides a series of projects, presented in order of difficulty, and supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas for color experiments, and techniques for creating special effects.

Drawing with Charcoal, Chalk, and Sanguine Crayon summarizes basic art principles for art students and ambitious amateurs, and then presents several dry-medium projects for them to complete.

Projects featuring full-color illustrations are presented in order of difficulty and are supplemented with general advice and practical suggestions for achieving professional-looking results when drawing with charcoal, chalk, and sanguine.

The final page presents a brief, enlightening, illustrated discussion of James Ensor, a Belgian artist particularly noted for his work in charcoal, chalk, and sanguine.

Gabriel Martin Roig is an artist who writes extensively on various artistic techniques, history of art, and architecture. Roig currently resides in Barcelona, Spain.

Author — Gabriel Martin Roig.

Hardcover. 64 pages. 8¼" × 11" (21 cm × 28 cm).