Everyday sketches

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Five tips from Steven Reddy's new book "Everyday Sketching and Drawing" that will have you drawing in no time.

Want to create a daily sketching habit? Start drawing things in your ordinary life, and use these drawing prompts to commorate the art of everyday.

When I taught my Maine workshop a few weeks ago, I had to do all the driving to Maine and back – 16 hours each way. I generally don’t enjoy driving on a long trip. It’s boring, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, like the time I blindly followed my GPS into a traffic jam in the […]

7 easy tips to start a sketching habit. Learn how to make a habit of sketching every day. How to start sketching. How to keep a sketchbook

I’ve been sketching up a storm and managing to stick to the challenge rule of drawing directly with a pen. I occasionally bend the rules a tiny bit by using a pencil to lay out the lettering, like in the sketch below, but the subject matter is all drawn in ink. (All sketches are done […]

Observational Sketching:Hone Your Artistic Skills by Learning How to Observe and Sketch Everyday Objects English | 2020 | ISBN-13 : 978-1631598883 | 131 Pages | True PDF | 28.9 MB Learn to draw by sketching what surrounds you everyday. In Observational Sketching, author Mariko Higaki—an ISDA Gold Award–winning industrial designer based in Japan—teaches you how to practice and learn to sketch by using well-established observational techniques.

Illustration, Drawing

I initially started using watercolour because I wanted to sketch while I was traveling, and so I started sketching my everyday life as a form of training. But I soon discovered that everyday sketching created an incredible visual record of my life. So what started out as a means to an end, became an end...