The Pencil Artist's Handbook — A Practical Guide to Pencil Drawing for the Home Artist covers pencil sketching of virtually everything from portraits to landscapes. It's a perfect introduction for beginners and a source of inspiration for seasoned artists.

Subjects covered include style, subject, color composition, and materials. Step-by-step color illustrations of both traditional and experimental techniques are featured, showing how to achieve a wide variety of effects with examples of works by famous artists.

The Pencil Artist's Handbook can be taken out to the field with ease. Its hidden spiral binding allows it to lie flat while opened to any page.

Author — Sally Harper.

Hardbound. 224 pages. 6½” × 8” (16 cm × 20 cm).