Ebook Everyday Sketching and Drawing Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit Steven B Reddy Stephanie Bower Gary Faigin 9781580935050 Books
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Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers an easy-to-follow, 5-step formula, which teaches beginner-friendly techniques for learning the skills necessary to make drawing and sketching an everyday habit. For those who have always wanted to or tried and failed to learn to draw it provides simple step-by-step instruction, plus easy-to-follow practice exercises, and provides the motivation and inspiration readers need to be successful. For those who already draw, Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers another technique to add to their drawing arsenal.
Why do so many adults come to view drawing as difficult or fraught with anxiety? Traditional art instruction is often bogged down with jargon, rules, and admonishments that unintentionally stifle the joy of drawing for its own sake.
Steven Reddy's new and easy approach to drawing instructs sketchers to document their unique and compelling lives in realistic yet playful sketches that record the places, spaces, and objects that help define them as individuals. He reminds artists to slow down, notice, and attend to the sketch-worthy scenes and subjects that are unstaged and always there in our everyday lives. He offers a versatile technique that can lead to a skill that fills sketchbooks with the visual details that differentiate one life from another. This approach is a meditative, relaxing alternative to academic concerns about perspective, proportion, and accuracy. Reddy encourages artists to capture in whimsical but detail-specific illustrations their unique, subjective interpretation of their visual surroundings.
Steven Reddy's drawing method produces extremely detailed and realistic scenes of objects and scenes in everyday life in a relatively short period of time (60 minutes to 3 hours or more, depending on the sketcher's preference). Modifying a technique utilized by Old Master oil painters, the drawings pass through 5 clearly articulated stages where each step focuses on one visual concept at a time.
Ebook Everyday Sketching and Drawing Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit Steven B Reddy Stephanie Bower Gary Faigin 9781580935050 Books
"Wow. This book is amazing. The author sets a great example for artists when he talks about his thought process while drawing. He focuses on what interests him, kicks the inner critic to the side, and lets fly. He makes a great case for breaking rules and going with our own way of seeing, which may be flawed by traditional standards. There is just something about the way he presents his material that is very encouraging and engaging. I love his 5 step method which distills good design down to the bare essentials. Keeping it simple makes it easier to keep in mind. Like Danny Gregory, he encourages us to draw what is in our lives. The illustrations of everyday drawings are motivating."
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Everyday Sketching and Drawing Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit Steven B Reddy Stephanie Bower Gary Faigin 9781580935050 Books Reviews :
Everyday Sketching and Drawing Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit Steven B Reddy Stephanie Bower Gary Faigin 9781580935050 Books Reviews
- My copy just arrived in the mail and I eagerly started reading. I have been familiar with Steven's work and attitude about sketching from an online class that I took with him. So I was thrilled to learn that he was writing a book about his methods and his inspiring advice that we all are artists and all are capable of sketching. Forget perspective and proportions and just do it. Wonky lines are good........ Pick up your pen or pencil and draw.... every day and you will improve. I may not always use his ink shading method, but I will always use his drawing methods and be inspired by his enthusiasm for sketching. This is a book that I will come back to again and again for inspiration !!
- Did you click "Buy it now?" Ok, welcome back!
I "met" Steven Reddy through two classes he teaches at Craftsy.com. Oh, you didn't know? Go there now and then come back again!!
Ok, you bought both? Great! You won't be disappointed.
Now, why do I love this book? Besides the instructional content, he inspires you to let go of the perfectionist in you. He teaches you (in all of his books and classes) that your sketches do not need to be perfect. (BTW, he has been an elementary school teacher for many years, so he knows how to teach!) He includes a list (and sketches (!)) of all of his favorite supplies. He teaches you how to lay down an underpainting, aka grisaille, before adding color to your sketch. He provides several steps to get you to a final sketch IN ONE SINGLE CHAPTER!
If that's not enough for you, this book also has MANY of his sketches. You will clearly see that he practice what he preaches. EVERY page has one or many of his illustrations. You will be inspired by his loose, yet very effective, style. Each image is accompanied by a short description of the when, where and how he drew that particular piece.
The content of the book is amazing, really. But I also love that there was no skimping on the quality of the actual book itself. The paper is a glossy, thick paper that shows off the drawings very well. Lately, I've received a ton of crappily printed books with no attention paid to the little qualities such as weight of the paper.
It took me nearly a year to write this review because I wasn't well for quite some time. Throughout those times when I only have enough physical strength to flip a page in a book and dream about the art I want to make, Steven's three books have been lovingly flipped through and pages bookmarked. I just ordered his fourth book to add to my collection.
Oh, you didn't know?? He has THREE other books. Those are memoirs, thicker than this book, stuffed with even MORE artwork, printed on the same quality paper, and even larger, too!!
He sells them on Etsy. Go get them!! I bought them as soon as I took his Craftsy classes.
If you are a lover of all things art, drawing, ink, urban sketching, watercolor or just beautiful images you need these books on your shelf. All four of them.
You can thank me later. - Wow. This book is amazing. The author sets a great example for artists when he talks about his thought process while drawing. He focuses on what interests him, kicks the inner critic to the side, and lets fly. He makes a great case for breaking rules and going with our own way of seeing, which may be flawed by traditional standards. There is just something about the way he presents his material that is very encouraging and engaging. I love his 5 step method which distills good design down to the bare essentials. Keeping it simple makes it easier to keep in mind. Like Danny Gregory, he encourages us to draw what is in our lives. The illustrations of everyday drawings are motivating.
- Quite simply Mr. Reddy has put together a tour de force ... of instruction, inspiration, and insight. Whether you're new to drawing and sketching, or a seasoned pro, there's something in this book for you.
The book is chock full of Reddy's own drawings -- some he calls doodles but to the rest of us are full-on detailed scenes -- which makes the book rich with resources. I urge the reader not to be intimidated by his work. Rather, look at the details of each and you will find something you didn't know and might like to try. This could be the world he's drawing, or, for the artist orientation, detail, perspective, contrast, light, scale, etc. Take any one drawing and learn one thing from it, practice that thing, and you are miles ahead of where you were before.
I found his sentence, "Talent is just another word for patience and dedication," to be super helpful as I struggle with what and how to draw. Patience, persistence, and practice. That's what it's all about!
Reddy likes to draw urban scenes, interior and exterior -- I especially love his exteriors of buildings and houses -- full of rich detail... but even things like the trash cans and tools behind the garden (rather than the garden) are here, and in this, because I struggle with WHAT to draw, I find comfort. I put this book and Danny Gregory's Everyday Matters on the same pedestal. Every page is an inspiration. - Great book! It’s the perfect mix of instruction and inspiration. So many urban sketching books underwhelm and only give you info you can google yourself. Easy to read. Short paragraphs. Feels like a friend giving you their best tips. Very happy with my purchase.
- I am new to sketching (new to art altogether) and needed some help and inspiration. I’ve purchased several books on sketching all offering some aspect of help and/or inspiration. By far this book has been the most helpful for me. It probably helps that I just love Steve’s style. The book offers clear and easy to follow instructions. I highly reccommend this book.
