{"product_id":"dare-to-sketch-isbn-9780399579554","title":"Dare to Sketch","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn inspirational, instructional, and visually stimulating guide to sketching and drawing. \u003ci\u003eDare to Sketch\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with practical tips about which materials to use, a variety of subject matter ranging from easy to more challenging, and wisdom about overcoming creative blocks and fear of making mistakes. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A whimsical beginner's guide to sketching, covering all of the important basics: what kind of notebook to buy, what drawing materials to use, ideas for subject matter, and daily exercises. Includes inviting, inspirational, and idiosyncratic tips (don't start on the first page of your sketchbook!), \u003ci\u003eDare to Sketch \u003c\/i\u003eis gorgeously illustrated with the author's unique and contemporary art style.\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Why use a sketchbook?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sketchbook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 Which sketchbook?\u003cbr\u003e 11 Choosing a format\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book with personality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12 Where to begin?\u003cbr\u003e 14 Protecting your sketchbook\u003cbr\u003e 17 Notes are permitted\u003cbr\u003e 18 Journaling\u003cbr\u003e 21 Doodling will set you free\u003cbr\u003e 22 The right and wrong ways to draw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 24 Specialty pens\u003cbr\u003e 27 Sepia ink\u003cbr\u003e 29 Colored pencils\u003cbr\u003e 31 Ballpoint pens\u003cbr\u003e 32 And, of course, pencils\u003cbr\u003e 36 Markers, glitter pens, and beyond\u003cbr\u003e 39 Watercolors\u003cbr\u003e 44 Collage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpressing yourself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 47 Visualizing your ideas\u003cbr\u003e 48 Blind contour drawing\u003cbr\u003e 51 Your line is you\u003cbr\u003e 52 Mistakes are allowed!\u003cbr\u003e 55 Drawing what you feel\u003cbr\u003e 56 Drawing is not photography\u003cbr\u003e 58 Letting imagination complete the picture\u003cbr\u003e 61 Drawing the invisible\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe basics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 62 Shot settings and westerns\u003cbr\u003e 64 Five types of shot settings\u003cbr\u003e 68 Getting a feel for composition\u003cbr\u003e 70 Weight and balance\u003cbr\u003e 72 Collected works\u003cbr\u003e 74 Perspective\u003cbr\u003e 78 Depth and perspective\u003cbr\u003e 80 Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 83 Nature\u003cbr\u003e 84 Landscapes and time\u003cbr\u003e 87 Coloring landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 88 Landscapes in ink\u003cbr\u003e 90 Light and shadow\u003cbr\u003e 93 Depicting shadows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 95 People are not objects\u003cbr\u003e 96 Friends\u003cbr\u003e 98 Passersby\u003cbr\u003e 101 Performers\u003cbr\u003e 103 Hide and seek\u003cbr\u003e 104 Use your head\u003cbr\u003e 106 Portraits and caricature\u003cbr\u003e 108 Nudes and proportion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnimals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 110 “It won’t stop moving!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitecture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 114 New and old places\u003cbr\u003e 117 Consider the everyday\u003cbr\u003e 118 Drawing buildings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe right place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 120 Stay open\u003cbr\u003e 123 Good and bad places\u003cbr\u003e 124 Finding your spot\u003cbr\u003e 127 Don’t forget to draw the cars\u003cbr\u003e 128 Cars mark the era\u003cbr\u003e 130 Montages\u003cbr\u003e 132 Objects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraveling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 134 When in Rome, see what the Romans see\u003cbr\u003e 137 Travel drawings\u003cbr\u003e 138 The journeying artist is not a tourist\u003cbr\u003e 141 Drawing is a global language\u003cbr\u003e 142 The right place at the right time\u003cbr\u003e 144 Museums\u003cbr\u003e 147 Panoramas\u003cbr\u003e 149 Trifles and truffles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaking it further\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 151 Reality is not reality is not reality\u003cbr\u003e 152 Everything is in flux\u003cbr\u003e 154 Redoing drawings\u003cbr\u003e 156 Using digital media\u003cbr\u003e 157 Whatever happened to da Vinci’s sketchbook?“The new go-to resource for anyone who has ever had interest in creating within a sketchbook.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —STEVEN PETERMAN, founder of The Sketchbook Project\u003c\/b\u003eFELIX SCHEINBERGER is a prolific German illustrator, artist, and designer. He is the author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eUrban Watercolor Sketching \u003c\/i\u003eas well as several books in German on watercolors, and he has illustrated more than fifty children's books in the last decade. His work has appeared in magazines including \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Manager \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003eWhy use a sketchbook?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe entry of digital media into all spheres of design and artistic work has narrowed the world of designers, artists, and illustrators to a very small space: our desks. The consequence of this is that we lose a little of our contact with the outside world. We sit at the computer and when we want to draw a subject from outside, we simply google it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book you are holding is an attempt at something else. First of all, it contains instructions for drawing and sketching. It deals with the basics and tips and especially the fun of sketching. In addition, this book aims to convey that drawing is a medium that opens up new and larger spaces: spaces in our inner world and in the outside world. Drawing encompasses imagination and knowledge and is one of the few artistic fields in which we experience our subjects on location firsthand. By drawing things, we reflect reality anew. We are no longer processing someone else’s images, but going out into the world and looking at it with our own eyes. A sketchbook enables us to enhance our perspective and thereby enhance our world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, there is something authentic and personal about drawings. If we only google subjects, we are faced with the problem that we are all using the same images, narrowing our view of the world through the hierarchic funneling process of search engines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are presently experiencing a tremendous renaissance in drawing. The genuine is in demand. The vast possibilities of image processing have damaged the credibility of photography. Drawings are enjoying a boom because they are authentic. We artists vouch for our drawings. By doing and experiencing it ourselves, we personally guarantee the authenticity of our pictures. The obvious subjectivity and intimacy of drawn pictures make the medium paradoxically more “real” than photographs or googled images. This means that drawings also are gaining documentary relevance—which leads us to the sketchbook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy sketchbook is something very personal. I draw in it for me and not for others; I use it to describe my world and my life. I am interested in the world I live in, and in a conscious and prolonged process that lasts longer than that of taking a snapshot. I deal with the world. Drawing is also a sensual process: we draw people differently when we associate an odor with them. 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