Start here: draw: how to be an artist without trying
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- Start Here. Daily mark-making ideas, from the simplest single line to turning curves, dots, and scribbles into cute motifs designed to be drawn in 30 minutes to an hour.
- Get a Sketchbook. Guidance on how you can get the most out of your sketchbook and inspiration to help you keep it up.
- Practice Makes Perfect. Using these prompts as an inspiring starting point, have fun experimenting with different techniques and developing your own style.
- Make It Your Own. From patternmaking with stylized motifs to more realistic sketches, this section helps you develop your own creative approach by interpreting the prompts in your own way or by copying them using a different medium.
- Stuff. Here are a few essential pieces of equipment you’ll need, or what you could add to your kit. Includes plenty of ideas of what to do with your finished work, from making T-shirts and mugs to curating your own “pin it” library of pieces you’re proud of.
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Watercolor artist/sketcher Clinch's (The Watercolor Painter's Pocket Palette) book gives budding artists easy, nonintimidating prompts and exercises that help them build their skills. Incorporating a variety of strokes and shapes, the book covers the basics and offers tips on using various types of media. Many of the exercises are experimental and fun. For example, there are instructions for creating fingerprint characters, pixel pets, print collages, mugs, and mouse pad designs. Clinch explains how to use different mediums--including digital formats--for different effects. She stresses that imperfections add to the character of a piece. When layering colored paper in a collage, for instance, she advises to let some of the original background show. The last part of the book is about drawing figures and portraits. Clinch even offers advice on how to get family and friends to sit for portraits. VERDICT Filled with valuable takeaways. This book shines in the way it teaches readers how to draw projects for friends or keepsakes for the home.--Chantal Walvoord
Library Journal Reviews
Watercolor artist/sketcher Clinch's (The Watercolor Painter's Pocket Palette) book gives budding artists easy, nonintimidating prompts and exercises that help them build their skills. Incorporating a variety of strokes and shapes, the book covers the basics and offers tips on using various types of media. Many of the exercises are experimental and fun. For example, there are instructions for creating fingerprint characters, pixel pets, print collages, mugs, and mouse pad designs. Clinch explains how to use different mediums—including digital formats—for different effects. She stresses that imperfections add to the character of a piece. When layering colored paper in a collage, for instance, she advises to let some of the original background show. The last part of the book is about drawing figures and portraits. Clinch even offers advice on how to get family and friends to sit for portraits. VERDICT Filled with valuable takeaways. This book shines in the way it teaches readers how to draw projects for friends or keepsakes for the home.—Chantal Walvoord
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