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Artist insight Drawing skills<br />
2 Quick skeTches & ThumbnaiLs<br />
Thumbnails help me get dull ideas out to make room for better ones and they keep me on point when thinking about how to break an image<br />
down to its simplest form. I tend to do them in ink and you should too! Sketching in ink builds confidence in your mark making and it’s much<br />
easier to do this first with small thumbnails. Start smaller and start easier and before you know it you’ll be covering entire pages in straight ink.<br />
3 warm-up skeTches<br />
Always do warm-ups! If I’m going to spend the day doing rough sketches,<br />
I still take an hour and do a warm-up sketch. Most of the time when we feel<br />
uninspired to sketch, it’s simply a disconnect between our brain and our hand.<br />
Thus it feels like whatever you put down isn’t quite the way you envisioned it.<br />
The warm-up sketches get this out of the way. Some days it might take<br />
longer to warm up, but it’s well worth the time and effort. Do meaningless,<br />
silly sketches if need be – something that doesn’t matter, but just gets the<br />
head and hands on the same page. It’s too often side-stepped in the interest<br />
of time, but doing so will ultimately save you time at the end of the day if you<br />
don’t have to struggle on sketches that matter afterward.<br />
Often when we feel uninspired<br />
to sketch, it’s simply a disconnect<br />
between our brain and our hand<br />
4 consider using calligraphy<br />
tools For sketching<br />
There are few things more beautiful in life<br />
than a masterful calligraphic mark. It can<br />
be small and quick, or long and flowing,<br />
sinuous, straight, loving or harsh and<br />
thrown down with gusto! But always the<br />
idea is the feeling that the calligraphic<br />
mark is conveying. The weight, and the<br />
motion and the emotion.<br />
My two favourite tools are brush pens<br />
and pencils. They both achieve beautiful<br />
calligraphy when used properly and they<br />
both can achieve very similar marks. So<br />
what I learn from one, I can apply to the<br />
other. Try them out for yourself.<br />
August 2017<br />
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