I would like to share with you my sketchbooks, to give you ideas but also to encourage you not to be so precious about it.
They are not perfect but I hope you can sense how much fun I am having sketching in them.
It is not easy to do the first entry into a brand new sketchbook. We feel pressured to do something ‘beautiful’. To take that pressure away a few tips how to start:
Let’s get familiar with the material we will be using and make a color chart.
Let’s also get familiar with water color working:
Wet On Dry:
Wet On Wet:
Smooth Edges:
Wet Paint On Water
Depending how you work your line, your sketch will look so different. Let’s explore different styles. During the whole course feel free to use any line that suits you best. (or maybe you want to try them all out!)
We are looking at:
To simply draw with a fine line pen was quite a revelation to me. You can get a really fun drawing with something as simple as that.
Select anything, lay it out on your table and sketch it directly. To make it more interesting add hatching, crosshatching and dots to it.
If this is a technique that you would like to develop, I can highly recommend the book from Alphonso Dunn or his youtube videos. I also have a video on my blog about drawing texture.