Sketch Creatively!
Are you a detail oriented perfectionist? Yes, you know you are, and this is the perfect session for you to develop your spontaneity and creativity.
- Entry Requirements
- About this session
- Resources
- What will we learn in this session?
- Book this session
Entry Requirements
- Sketch 101: See the world as a sketch artist!.
In that session we get familiar with the methods in my books How to Sketch Shapes and How to sketch Form.
About this session
Are you a detail oriented perfectionist? Yes, you know you are, and this is the perfect session for you to develop your spontaneity and creativity.
In these fun sessions we produce many pages of art, in a change of pace from our usual session where we focus on one scene all afternoon.
What do you see first? A lion? A Zebra?
Each time you take this session you'll produce many pages of different content.
We started this sketch again with a zebra, breaking it down to a triangle and a rectangle. Then we added scenery and elephants, all referenced to pictures one of my students took in Africa. So we end up with a montage that suggests something of the animal life and scenery in Africa. Nice!
All of this from the 3 Cezanne shapes: Triangle, Circle, Square that we learned in Sketch 101: Engrave your memories
As well as the more "finished" sketches we will do very fast work in order to develop specific skills.
Five super-fast sketches of a pear. Here we are practicing: movement, iterative learning, imagination.
Scribble.
To scribble means to create one continuous line as quickly as possible. This is a great strategy to get you in "Right - Brain - Mode", where your non-verbal thinking takes place.
What will we learn in this session?
- Abstraction
- Automatic Drawing
- Circles
- Composition
- Counterpoint
- Cross Hatching
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Flow State
- Focal Point
- Hard and soft edges
- Iterative Learning
- Language of Line
- Lettering
- Loose versus tight
- Overhand Grip
- Rhythm
- Scribble
- Sketching shape quickly and accurately
- Smudging
- Spirals
- Squares
- Straight lines
- Tonal Design
- Tonal Sketching
- Tone
- Triangles
- Underhand Grip
- Van Gogh's Language of Line
- Vignettes
- Wavy lines
We will use all the tricks of the trade to make your sketches into a page that's really nice to look at.
This session is a prerequisite for the Paint Creatively! sessions.
Resources
How to sketch Form.
Get the book onto your device with one click at Amazon
How sketching preserves memories - Watch at YouTube