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Workshops<br />
Artist insight<br />
sharpen up your<br />
drawing skills<br />
daniel landerman thinks sketches are the beginnings of incredible<br />
things, and reveals what you can do to achieve such beginnings!<br />
Artist<br />
proFile<br />
daniel<br />
landerman<br />
location: US<br />
The sketch artist and<br />
illustrator of film posters<br />
also loves storytelling,<br />
funky drawings and<br />
creating craft cocktails.<br />
He’s a cat person.<br />
http://ifxm.ag/dan-l<br />
There’s a lot that goes<br />
into even a tiny sketch.<br />
A plethora of artistic<br />
decisions to consider:<br />
composition, gesture,<br />
line quality and mark making, and<br />
rhythm and expression. All of which<br />
we need to learn to work into our<br />
muscle memory as we use a range of<br />
tools, all of which work fairly<br />
differently from one another.<br />
I do sketches for a living. Yes, a<br />
professional sketch artist is a thing!<br />
Look no further than the advertising<br />
world. I sketch on paper and on the<br />
computer to help design posters and<br />
key art for film, TV and video games.<br />
So I’d like to think I have a bit of<br />
insight into this mysterious world of<br />
sketching and drawing.<br />
Those who follow me on<br />
Instagram know I love to sketch in<br />
my free time, too. I have a few<br />
principles that have helped me get to<br />
where I am and have ensured that I’ll<br />
keep getting better at what I do, and<br />
I’m hoping to pass some of that<br />
knowledge onto others. Namely you!<br />
Be you novice or ninja, there should<br />
be something for everybody. From<br />
basic physicality to more subtle<br />
expressions, we need to consider it<br />
all! We’ll be stronger artists for it.<br />
1 Draw a LOT, anD yOu’LL geT beTTer anD fasTer!<br />
Basically, this is the key to all of this stuff. Art is about mileage because it’s largely<br />
about muscle memory and naturalising concepts. It should be done every day, for<br />
multiple hours. It takes discipline, but it’s worth it! If you want to get better faster, draw<br />
more and draw smarter. And always have new sketchbooks in reserve. I buy three to<br />
five at a time so that I’m never caught without a new one when I finish my current<br />
book. And not only must we sketch more often, we also must do more drawings…<br />
70 August 2017
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