How To Sketch

Chapter 1: Sketching With Pencil

Of course, you can use any medium, but this guide’s focus is on pencil so you’re not procrastinating over which medium to use before you
start.

Chapter 2: Materials

A brief explanation of the few things required.

Chapter 3: Applying the pencil

The difference between drawing and sketching is sometimes blurred so we discuss that here plus some exercises on how to limber up and get ready.

Chapter 4: Quality of Pencil Strokes

Tactics you employ to get the best looking sketches.

Find out first what the medium can do, and then learn to do it expressively as you sketch.

Chapter 5: Direction of Strokes

Taking small steps, we start with the simplest way to put down a sketch.

Chapter 6: Character of Strokes

Building on what you learn in the previous chapter, you start to create more interest in your sketches.

Chapter 7: Grouping of Strokes

Ideas to further enhance your sketches by revealing which indicators will guide you.

Chapter 8: Measure with a pencil

The secret to proportion – a technique that you’ll use for life.

Once you know this tip, your sketches will always be true.

Chapter 9: Sketching Buildings

Examples and ideas of easy ways you can sketch buildings of any kind.

Chapter 10: Sketching Foliage

Guidelines and illustrations for the best way to recreate nature on paper.

Chapter 11: Sketching Animals

The tips and tricks for sketching animals.

Chapter 12: Sketching The Figure

We discuss reducing this complicated subject to its simplest form.

Chapter 13: Light, Shade and Shadows

Delving into the important aspects of light and shade, you learn how to work it into your creations.

Chapter 14: Sketching Exercises

Fun and easy exercises that introduce more speed into your work.

Also, for your convenience, there’s a Glossary included at the end of the Sketching Book which gives the meanings of common art-related words.