Sketch!: The Non-Artist's Guide to Inspiration, Technique, and Drawing Daily Life
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00KAFVOLO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 359 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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By sharing her own creative process, Belleville-Van Stone Sketch inspires artists both established and aspiring to rethink their daily practice, sketch for the pure joy of it, and document their lives and the world around them.From the Trade Paperback edition.. She encourages and teaches us how to do it with advice and guidance such as: · An A-to-Z list of daily sketch prompts, from airports to bananas, faces to hands, meetings and workplaces · Tips on what drawing supplies you can and should have--and how to carry them around · Sections on accepting mistakes, drawing with limited resources, and redefining completion · Plusses and minuses of going digital, including apps, styluses, and brushesFor those of us who dream of drawing in the minutes between school and work, bathtime and bedtime, and waking and walking out the door, the practical advice in Sketch! is a revelation. Drawing activities, art instruction, and advice for artists and non-artists alike. Urban sketching--the process of drawing on the go as a regular practice--is a hot trend in the drawing world. It's also a practical necessity for creatively minded people in a busy world. In this aspirational guide,
More Motivational than Educational Amazon Customer I enjoyed reading this book but it was not what I expected or wanted. The author talks a lot about her personal experiences with drawing and there are lots of her drawings and sketches all through the book. It’s the story of her personal journey as an artist and I think if you are an artist yourself, you’ll really love this.However, although the book is supposed to be a “non-artist’s guide,” I didn’t feel it really was directed at me. It focuses more on inspiring you to make drawing part of your daily life than on how to draw. A. Inspiring and motivating Parka [[VIDEOID:1788d6f31d1642466b9747f3aa38c731]]I was quite excited when I knew that France Belleville-Van Stone was coming up with a book. I follow her blog where she posts her drawings from daily life, be it sketches from the living room, backs of her colleagues during a meeting, cars, shoes, or her cat Peaches. I like the style of her pen and ink drawings, and just her art in general.The book Sketch! is a 134-page paperback with rounded corners. The pages are designed to look like textured paper, and her encouraging text and beautiful drawings are printed on them. . Banishing fear is half the job This book was exactly what I needed. I'm learning to draw through books and online videos and this one is a real winner. It won't teach you how to draw, but maybe more importantly gives you the encouragement to draw.The author explains many problems and challenges she has faced when drawing - discouragement at the end result, no time, mistakes, and general artistic frustration. Then she explains what she has done to overcome each of those barriers. The insouciant attitude of "just draw" is what helped me the most. On a long phone call? just draw! Standing in line
“Stuffed to the brim with original sketches, Sketch! is the motivational book every aspiring creative needs. Written by a self-taught, or ‘untaught,’ artist, it serves as a guide for readers who want to make drawing a daily part of their lives—even if they don't have years of art school behind them.”—Huffington Post
. She has been living and teaching full-time in the U.S. since late 2004. As an adult, she studied English instead of going to art school, and became a public school teacher. FRANCE BELLEVILLE-VAN STONE is a self-taught French artist who loved cars and drawing as a child