Line and Form

A working artist's guide to the principles of drawing and design, exploring how line and shape create beauty and meaning. A practical, thoughtful handbook on the foundations of visual art.

At a glance Every drawing begins with a line, and every design resolves into form. This handbook takes those two elemental ideas and builds from them a considered account… What it's about This is a practical treatise on the principles of drawing and design… Books of this kind, written by working artists for students and craftsmen, move through…

This is a practical treatise on the principles of drawing and design, examining the roles that line and form play in creating pattern, structure and beauty.