Author: Harold Speed
Location: Internet Archive
A great book on drawing by a brilliant teacher. This book will teach you how to become a drawing master. It includes about 100 illustrations. It covers the paper, etching, pen and ink, lithography, white chalk, carbon pencil, red chalk, charcoal, and lead pencil.
Though illustrated, this book is less “look and follow” instruction, and more “read and understand and then go practice”. Speed, whose career spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries, carries forward the traditions of academic teaching, tempered with an understanding of the new paths then being blazed by the Impressionists and others.
The knowledge Speed offers is supplemented by the illustrations, some by artists like Da Vinci, Rubens, Holbein, Degas and others, and many by Speed himself, a skilled academic draftsman with a loose rendering style that foreshadows the work of noted 20th Century teacher draftsmen like Andrew Loomis, Walt Reed and Willy Pogany.
This online book is presented in a format that allows for relatively large, well presented reproductions of the original illustrations by Speed and others. There is also a PDF downloadable from the “i” for Information button in the upper right, which may be easier for offline reading.
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