Sketching School: Learn as You Go Guide [B0138]

1991 Reader's Digest PB, 175-pages. This book is filled with great ideas on how to get started in this diverse and enjoyable art form. Step-by-step instructions see you through 40 specially-designed projects, with sketching demonstrations from leading artists providing inspiration. The opening section is loaded with tips on selecting subjects, sketching outdoors or on the move, and using different tools. Another section deals with developing specific areas of interest and skill. A final section deals with sketching as a means to such varied ends as a painting or illustration, theater or costume design, or applications in fashion, jewelry, ceramics, and textiles.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I stumbled across this book at a used bookstore and it's an unexpected treasure of information. This is not a how-to book--it's more of a survey of various types of sketching with coordinating sketches and process work and quick, written tips. It covers a wide variety of themes from landscapes, life studies, portraits and figure study, nature, sketching on vacation, still life and interiors, cityscapes, animals and birds, and more. There are a lot of full-color plates of examples by several professional artists who have differing styles to illustrate the techniques discussed with captions. These drawings make just paging through the hardcover book for inspiration fun as well."; "It was fun to look through the sketches. I got some good ideas from this book. It certainly helped me loosen up a bit."