Sketching
Sketching is a terrific way to start a drawing, because you don't have to do a perfect sketch. Here's how to get your pencil moving, and how to startle yourself with a great drawing done in seconds.
Sketching outdoors
The countryside may be conducive to poetic ideas, but you ca...
Picking Your Sketchbook
A large book is clumsy to hold and difficult to manage. You wi...
The Advantages of a Sketch Book
A sketch book is a record, amongst other things, of the place...
Easels and Stools
I am not a great believer in easels for outdoor sketching. If...
Where to Draw
When you first go out it would be unwise, obviously, to start...
Where and What to Draw
Often, traveling on a bus, I spot places that I think might ma...
Picking Subjects to Draw
For instance, you might be walking along, not thinking of an...
Realistic Drawings
In the Victorian era a sweet, sentimental subject received...
Foreground, Middle and Background
A good, flexible rule for settling the main shapes of the sub...
Accuracy
There is no such thing, for our purposes, as accuracy of visi...
Viewpoint and Color
VIEWPOINT
The viewpoint you take up will affect the angles o...
The viewpoint you take up will affect the angles o...
Drawing People continued
In these circumstances, it is better to train your memory. Y...
Down and Up
Our usual level of looking is in front of us. Generally we loo...
When is a drawing finished?
A drawing is complete when you have nothing more to add to it....
