Today I will share the last concept from my Foundations online course – working spontaneously out from a focus. In many ways this is a summary of the way I most frequently work and a description of what sketching means for me. Note: what I will be describing is very personal and certainly not the...
CONTINUE READINGLesson 9 of my SketchingNow Foundations course contains one of the more challenging assignments in the course – using a viewfinder. A viewfinder is a wonderful tool to help people compose, set out a view and improve accuracy, but the reality is that it’s super awkward to use on location. It’s hard to re-locate it...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s hard not to say each week “this is my favourite lesson”, but the subject of balancing line and colour is very dear to my heart. So much so, that I prepared a second course – SketchingNow Edges – to explore the concepts that I could only introduce during Foundations. The traditional perception of ink...
CONTINUE READINGI have to admit that I’m pleased that this particular lesson (a review of previous lessons rather than a new concept) coincided with my big moving week as I’m not really in a super-sketching mood. Exhaustion and stiffness are more the order of the day. However, I can always sketch a teacup! So please forgive my...
CONTINUE READINGThis week I have been thinking about ‘Measured Setup’. It’s the next lesson in my SketchingNow Foundations course that I am revisiting. This was one of the more ‘painful’ lessons for many people since it seems a little tedious to have to measure everything and there is a real risk that this will take away...
CONTINUE READINGThis week I have been thinking about the third way of visual thinking that I explain in detail in my Foundations Course: Constructing Volumes. I’ve discussed the first two Feeling Edges and Abstracting Shapes in previous articles this month. Last year when I re-visited this lesson I wrote: Most artists focus on the first two...
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