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Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics by Jeff Mellem

Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics Jeff Mellem ebook
ISBN: 9781600611506
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Format: pdf
Page: 128

Thousands of artists have graced our hallowed halls, and around 150 people arrive wielding pencils and joie de vive every week. Figure drawing - daily sketches. Since the Summer Sketch Group is a casual, uninstructed drawing session, there are no requirements, but I'll offer you some good basics to start with, and explain why I recommend them. Some people use a bottle of ink, and put a few drops of it in a little dish, or right from the bottle (illustrators like to use permanent link, or "India Ink" which becomes waterproof when it dries, but fountain pen ink, which is water-soluble, also works well). It had emphasis and connection. But now I had a solid gesture sketch to work from. Gabriel Campanario's book The Art of Urban Sketching presents a visually arresting, storytelling take on urban life driven by artists drawing their cities and sharing their visual dispatches. Created to pay homage to the building's art school roots, Life Drawing nights are our longest running event. Later, I could go back and do what artists call rendering — working the drawing, adding detail. Starting tomorrow, Spacing will showcase three excerpts from this book. The idea held some bohemian appeal, but more urgently, It made leaps. And this had happened in five minutes. I had never modeled for artists, and had no idea how I would feel standing naked as people I had just met stared at me. I see art more as a communication tool, rather than meant to be put in a frame on the wall. Spacing: What is People like this book even if they don't draw, because they can see cities through the artists' eyes.