So how to do good sketching? See some example of sketching in the slide show below and see the you tube video of an sketching expert which might inspire you to start doing your sketching.
This sketchbook can also become an ongoing resource and records/ document that they may refer to use anytime they need ideas for doing an art work. Overall, it can also place for you to do drafting, concepting, planning, practising your arts skills, or maintaining it or even just doodling.
Something as simple as the artist’s home can inspire a wide range of sketching ideas. The artist just needs to look at the things in the home in a new way.
- Sketch each part of the body individually. Start with drawing the eyes and work down to the toes.
- Sketch each book on a bookshelf.
- Open a drawer and sketch the contents.
- Look into a trashcan and draw the contents.
- Draw your sketching supplies.
- Sketch every houseplant in the home.
- Draw a stack of junk mail.
- While at church or temple, sketch the people around you as you absorb the sermon.
- Go to a floral shop every day for a week and sketch a different flower during each visit.
- Go to the park every day for a week and sketch a different tree during each visit.
- Visit a recycling center or junk yard. Sketch the interesting shapes found there.
- Sit at a coffee shop and sketch the people there.
- While at the coffee shop, sketch the items on the table.
- Sketch a historical local building, or maybe just the sculptures around it.
- Sketch the reflections of light off of the liquid and ice in a glass of ice tea.
- Sketch a drop of water splashing into a puddle.
- Go to the beach or grab a reference photo and sketch the ocean’s waves.
- Arrange several glass items and sketch how the transparent items overlap.
- Draw a micro image by only focusing on an object up-close. This, more than likely, will create an abstract drawing of the object.
- Fill a sink with hot water and soap bubbles. Draw the result.