Quick Sketching
By Carl Cheek
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About this ebook
Discover over one hundred masterfully drawn sketches that wonderfully illustrate the accompanying text. An effective path to acquiring the artistic essentials of the human figure and countenance, as well as busy backgrounds, Quick Sketching offers up innovative, workable methods for quickly—and beautifully—drawing:
• adults
• children
• animals
• interiors
• portraits
• landscapes
. . . and more!
Affordably priced and sure to be viewed and reviewed again and again, Quick Sketching is a worthy addition to the library of every artist!
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Quick Sketching - Carl Cheek
ARTISTS
INTRODUCTION
The ability to draw with speed is a useful accomplishment for any artist for a variety of reasons.
In relation to gathering material for future reference it is important to be able to put down the required information before the subject vanishes or changes its relationship to other objects in the picture area.
Quick sketching stimulates an ability to capture the prominent features of any subject without wavering. Quite often there just is not time to do otherwise. The fact that one has to think and act fast prevents one’s ideas from being dissipated by second thoughts and half-measures which might cloud the original image.
Mistakes will occur; they will be as extreme as the method is drastic. The virtue here is that the faults themselves will be clear, the more so since the eye will not have had time to accustom itself to them. It is therefore possible to correct such faults with relative ease precisely because they are so distinct.
Drawing quickly fosters a sense of economy, always the prerequisite to clarify. Complexity, when it becomes the means of expression instead of a by-product, is the foremost obscurer of meaning.
Fast drawing allows one’s emotional responses a wider range than working more laboriously. There is no time for self-consciousness, no chance to hide behind a network of elaborate linear tracery.
You will find that you do more bad drawings than good ones. Don’t feel that because this