Sketching Techniques for Artists

Sketching Techniques for Artists is the modern guide for learning essential sketching and watercolor techniques for creating landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, figures and faces, still lifes, and more.

Introduction

1 MATERIALS AND TOOLS
A Personal Choice Pens, Pencils, and Inks
Paper and Sketchbooks
Brushes
Watercolor Paint
Miscellaneous Tools2 GENERAL SKETCHING TECHNIQUES
Using the Language of Film to Tell a Story
Selecting What to Sketch
Rendering Light in a Sketch
Details
3 COMPOSITION
Telling a Story
The Rule of Thirds
Contrast and Detail
Thumbnail Sketches
4 PERSPECTIVE
Basic Bones
Linear Perspective The Horizon Line
One-Point Perspective
Two-Point Perspective
Three-Point Perspective
Perspective on a Curved Street5 STILL LIFE
A Poem Made Visible
A New Way to See Objects
Rendering Light
Adding Color
Structure
Negative Space
6 LANDSCAPES
Landscape Composition
Sketching Landscapes and Line Weight
Atmospheric Perspective
7 ARCHITECTURE
An Overview of Basic Forms
Roofs
Doorways and Arches
Windows
Balconies
Awnings
Signs
Architecture as Character
8 FIGURES
The Basic Figure
Adding Volume
Capturing Gesture
Drawing Figures in Groups
Drawing the Head
9 WATERCOLOR
Dancing with Watercolor
Creating Multiple Effects with One Color
Creating Texture: Splatters, Splashes, and Scrapes
Color Mixing
Warm and Cool Colors
Painting with a Limited Palette
Stages of a Painting
The Color and Consistency of Shadows
Contre Jour

Conclusion: Keep Going
Resources
Influences
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index