so-so2.5/5⭐ There is some specific information for crafting a journal and drawing in it at the beginning, but the majority of the book is more for generic inspiration. Everything is basically “sit still and draw what you observe“ without much more detail. There are lots of examples with the author's notes about when she drew them. The book is more an exploration of the author's art journal than a how-to.
May was a good reading month- great books and my reading time was up despite being a busy month.
Notice my page count was down though so maybe a few of those minutes were for sleeping. 😅
If I HAD to pick a favorite for the month…Billy Summers.
#Bookly
The local urban sketchers group was meeting at the library today, so i went tried and mostly failed to represent what I saw, but I came back with 3 books, 2 on my list and 1 to try my hand at haiku's again.
pickI really loved this book. There aren‘t many exercises but there‘s a plethora of tips and inspiration to get you going. I‘m a homebody, so filling up a sketchbook takes me ages, but he did inspire me to try and get out more in order to try my hand at urban sketching. I loved his illustrations on every page and his musings about the drawing process. This is the kind of art book I‘ll go to over and over again when I need inspiration.
“‘Reality‘ is a compromise among many ways of seeing.”
Here the author is referring to drawing realistically versus with more expression. Basically, he says we can only go by our own perspective, which will be different to someone else‘s.
“Truly great illustrators count on their intuition—not on techniques and constructs!”
“Drawing creates more than depth of focus—it allows insignificant things to disappear and conjures significant things out of nowhere.”
Here, the author is referring to how drawing is different from photography and how we can choose what‘s important in drawing a scene/subject instead of capturing everything.
“In art, the emotional middle ground is deadly. The more opinionated a drawing is, the more entertaining it will become!”
“Anyone can learn tricks and gimmicks but you must learn to accept your own line and the way you draw—it‘s your own unmistakable signature! In time, you‘ll come to realize that your signature is beautiful.” ❤️
Been in a creative slump lately, so I‘ve been reading through this one. I‘ve done blind contour drawing before, but it‘s been a long time. Practicing with it, as the author asks us to, was refreshing. It made me laugh. I realized I just need to let loose and have some fun, not worrying about the end result. Loving the book so far…
