Article · Illustration History
Pyle as a Picture Maker
By James Gurney
- Type
- Article
- Level
- All levels
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2015
About this lesson
Walks through how Howard Pyle planned a narrative picture: dozens of thumbnails, tonal simplification, staging the supreme moment and working from costumed models versus imagination. Illustrated with Pyle's finished paintings and studies.
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