Gestural expression: deduction through feeling -- Shape: an irony -- The indispensable abstraction -- Value: light, local tone, and mood -- Perspective: the foreshortened view -- Volume: the sculptural sense -- Color: the transforming element -- Media and materials: the tools of drawing -- Visual issues: the forming of order -- Expressive issues: the forming of meaning -- Envisioned images: improvisations of form and space -- Pathologies of drawing: some symptoms and defects -- Finding your way: options and attitudes.