Richard Box explores drawing line, tone and colour with numerous step-by-step illustrations and finished drawings. He covers drawing media such as graphite, Pierre Noire, carbon, white, sanguine, sepia and coloured pencils, pastels, conte crayons and charcoal. There is plenty of information on making marks, tonal values, texture and composition, and there are step-by-step demonstrations in graphite pencil, charcoal and chalk, coloured pencils and pastels and Conte crayons.

Previously published as Step-by-Step Leisure Arts: Basic Drawing Techniques | 9780855328429