Concise and beautifully illustrated, this guide provides invaluable instruction on the art of pencil drawing. It covers the basics of holding the pencil, applying different strokes, shading, perspective, and the rendering of different materials, as well as the finer points of pictorial composition and drawing from nature. 36 evocative sketches.

Frontispiece; Clovelly, Devon
Examples of Pencil Strokes
Diagram Showing How to Sharpen the Pencil
Diagram Showing How to Make Strokes
Rudimentary Sketches Representing Different Materials--How to Achieve Contrast
Sketch of Belfry--Contrast
Sketch of Old Fence Post--Avoiding Monotony
Treatment of a Clump of Grass
Boat Showing Direction of Strokes Giving Feeling of Water
Leafy Branch--and Rendering Foliage
Bare Trees--Partially Filled-in Foliage
Tree Trunk--and Treatment
Perforated Cardboard Experiments
Diagram of Tree--Balance and Symmetry
Bath Place, Oxford
On the Cherwell, Oxford
Lane in Woodstock
Covered Bridge, Vermont
Over the River
Fisher Row and Oxford Castle
Bridge at Godstow
Ruins of an Old Nunnery
The Old and the New
Old Mill in Londonderry, Vermont
Thatched Cottage, Garsington
West River, Vermont
Grange Gate, Milton
The Willows
Old Chase Homestead
Oliver Cromwell's Mill
A Chiddingstone Cottage
Cottage at Clifton, Hampden
Half Timbered Houses in Kent
Magdalen Tower, Oxford
Magdalen Tower from the Meadow
The Fish Wharves, Rockport