A beginner-friendly guide by a popular sketch instructor from Taiwan, designed to help adults sketch freely and casually. This series features sketches of landscapes from Taiwan and Japan.
Aimed at beginners hesitant to take the first step into drawing or adults who have drifted away from sketching due to their busy lives, this book offers tips on starting sketching with ease and freedom. Capture everyday objects or emotionally striking landscapes, and start sketching with the same carefree approach as childhood doodles.
【Table of Contents】
Introduction
About Sketching and Me
About Sketching
Chapter 1: Basic Sketching Tools
– Pencils
– Gel pens
– Micron pens
– Fountain pens
– Glass pens
– Other pens
– Waterproof inks
– Water brush pens
– Solid watercolors
– Sketchbooks
Chapter 2: Drawing Clean Lines
– How to hold the pen
– Hand exercises
– Practice bubble letters
– Drawing the outlines of objects
– Drawing without under-sketching
– Beginner’s challenge
– Connected lines make lines look clean
– Sketches with appropriate ink pooling have character
– Signature stamp
Chapter 3: Adding Color with Transparent Watercolors
– Hue
– Color categories
– Value
– Saturation
– Color temperature
– Coloring with water brush pens
– Tips for color adjustment
– Color application order
– Making grays for shadowed areas
– How to lower saturation
– Leaving white spaces in the drawing
– Drawing white-outlined letters
Chapter 4: Designing the Composition
– Perspective (level, worm’s-eye view, bird’s-eye view)
– Framing (how to crop the scene)
– Composition (visual structure)
– Layout (arranging the elements)
– Balancing visual effects (visual weight)
Chapter 5: Themed Sketch Examples
● Objects
1. Beer can
2. Sneakers
Applied examples of object sketches
● Food
3. Fruit pudding cake
4. Child’s lunchbox
Applied examples of food sketches
● Familiar Scenes
5. Still life on the table
6. Dessert case at a café
Applied examples of familiar scene sketches
● Cityscapes
7. Café with a slanted roof
8. Restaurant in an alley
9. Tainan’s Xu Feng Hao
10. Scenery of Cordes-sur-Ciel, France
Applied examples of cityscape sketches
Chapter 6: Trying Different Subjects
– Sketching people
– Sketching figures for background scenes
– Face sketches
– Sketching hobby items
– Trying different types of drawings
Chapter 7: Going Out to Sketch
– Preparing before going out
– Outdoor sketching
– Using Google to sketch cityscapes
Category:Japanese Illustration Book
- Pages:
- 224
- ISBN:
- 9784802512053
- Release Date:
- September, 2024
- Language:
- Japanese
- Publisher:
- BNN
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