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The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,925 ratings — published 2012
The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,490 ratings — published 2012
The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.28 — 771 ratings — published 2014
Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,264 ratings — published 2014
An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.32 — 986 ratings — published 2013
Sketching People: An Urban Sketcher's Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.24 — 221 ratings — published 2016
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,328 ratings — published 2005
Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,184 ratings — published 2011
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.72 — 25,923 ratings — published 2008
Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.19 — 230 ratings — published 2008
Everyday Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,178 ratings — published 2003
5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.93 — 107 ratings — published
Artist's Sketchbook: Exercises and Techniques for Sketching on the Spot (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.14 — 182 ratings — published 2016
Sketch!: The Non-Artist's Guide to Inspiration, Technique, and Drawing Daily Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.02 — 736 ratings — published 2014
Urban Sketching: The Complete Guide to Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.05 — 270 ratings — published 2014
Sketching: The Basics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.13 — 141 ratings — published 2011
Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.87 — 201 ratings — published 1990
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.40 — 320 ratings — published 2016
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.87 — 376,091 ratings — published 1979
How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,177 ratings — published 2012
Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.12 — 867 ratings — published 2017
5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.32 — 232 ratings — published
Freehand Drawing and Discovery: Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.34 — 145 ratings — published 2013
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,516 ratings — published 2007
Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.83 — 371 ratings — published 2010
Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,081 ratings — published 2000
The Urban Sketching Handbook 101 Sketching Tips: Tricks, Techniques, and Handy Hacks for Sketching on the Go (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.48 — 247 ratings — published
Sketch Your World: Essential Techniques for Drawing on Location (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.01 — 153 ratings — published 2014
Tate: Sketch Club Urban Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.36 — 42 ratings — published
The Urban Sketching Handbook Sketch Now, Think Later: Jump into Urban Sketching with Limited Time, Tools, and Techniques (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.12 — 510 ratings — published
Fast Sketching Techniques: Capture the Fundamental Essence of Elusive Subjects (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.89 — 124 ratings — published 2000
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,471 ratings — published 1985
Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,400 ratings — published 2018
Creative Sketching Workshop: Inspiration, Tips and Exercises for Sketching on the Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published
The Urban Sketching Handbook Architecture and Cityscapes: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location (Volume 1)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.19 — 250 ratings — published
Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are (Flexibound)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,499 ratings — published 2015
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,817 ratings — published 2008
Everyday Sketching and Drawing: Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.37 — 196 ratings — published
Housesketching: Learn to Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.53 — 83 ratings — published
The World of Urban Sketching: Celebrating the Evolution of Drawing and Painting on Location Around the Globe - New Inspirations to See Your World One Sketch at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.65 — 99 ratings — published
Sketching Techniques for Artists: In-Studio and Plein-Air Methods for Drawing and Painting Still Lifes, Landscapes, Architecture, Faces and Figures, and More (Volume 5)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.43 — 115 ratings — published
Sketch Every Day: 100+ simple drawing exercises from Simone Grünewald (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.42 — 238 ratings — published 2019
The Complete Guide to Anatomy for Artists & Illustrators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.50 — 147 ratings — published 1986
Wildlife Sketching: Pen, Pencil, Crayon and Charcoal (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.95 — 19 ratings — published 1986
Pencil Sketching (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.63 — 98 ratings — published 1977
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.96 — 330,028 ratings — published 2012
The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching: Easy to Follow Tips and Tricks to Make your Sketches Look Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.76 — 45 ratings — published 2014
You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,944 ratings — published 2008
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,208 ratings — published 1939
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sketching)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,648 ratings — published 1943
“After selecting a brush, she moistened the cakes of watercolor in her traveling palette with some of the water from her cup and, with careful strokes, began to record the almond flowers in painstaking detail. Her father had successfully cultivated them at Trebithick, but she had never seen them growing in the wild before.
More often than not, Elizabeth would collect plant samples to study carefully indoors, and would sketch them out before taking up her brush, spending hours ensuring she captured each detail precisely. But recently she had begun to experiment with a more free-form style of painting. It wasn't strictly the style of illustration she had learned, nor did she think her father would approve, but she loved the immediacy of it. The trick was to get the lighting just right--- a strong source helped to create shade and give the work a three-dimensional effect. The afternoon light was perfect, and she also used a dry brush, rubbed over the paint cakes, to add detail and depth to the watercolors.
Daisy wandered off to the shade of a wide-spreading tree a few yards away. 'It's a canela tree, I think," Elizabeth called out, pausing for a moment from her work. 'False cinnamon,' she explained.
'I can smell it,' replied Daisy, sniffing appreciatively. 'Like Cook's apple pie.”
― The Botanist's Daughter
More often than not, Elizabeth would collect plant samples to study carefully indoors, and would sketch them out before taking up her brush, spending hours ensuring she captured each detail precisely. But recently she had begun to experiment with a more free-form style of painting. It wasn't strictly the style of illustration she had learned, nor did she think her father would approve, but she loved the immediacy of it. The trick was to get the lighting just right--- a strong source helped to create shade and give the work a three-dimensional effect. The afternoon light was perfect, and she also used a dry brush, rubbed over the paint cakes, to add detail and depth to the watercolors.
Daisy wandered off to the shade of a wide-spreading tree a few yards away. 'It's a canela tree, I think," Elizabeth called out, pausing for a moment from her work. 'False cinnamon,' she explained.
'I can smell it,' replied Daisy, sniffing appreciatively. 'Like Cook's apple pie.”
― The Botanist's Daughter
“Slipping past a patch of reeds, I slow to look for the purple gallinule, Porphyrula martinica. My father called it a pond chicken. No dead bird skin can capture the way this creature walks weightlessly over lily pads and floating reeds. That's why I've come out today, after all---to get the gizz of one purple pond chicken. I skim close to every clump of bulrush, wild rice, and pickerelweed. For a moment, the only sound is my paddle and the water. Then here come the moorhens, cousins to the gallinule, swimming around me. Their beaks are white, and their feathers are black, where the gallinule's are blue, violet, and rainbow-shine green. They start up with their high, collective cackle. "Listen to 'em laughing at us," my dad would say.
"Get out there," Estelle said, "before you lose touch." What exactly was that supposed to mean?
I spy a limpkin among the reeds, poking its tweezer-like beak in the mud for apple snails. Crying birds, they call them, because of the baleful sound they make trying to get a mate into their nest. It almost sounds like a baby's wail. I do a quick sketch of the limpkin's long legs and slender, curving bill, the variegation of its brown and white feathers.”
― The Marsh Queen
"Get out there," Estelle said, "before you lose touch." What exactly was that supposed to mean?
I spy a limpkin among the reeds, poking its tweezer-like beak in the mud for apple snails. Crying birds, they call them, because of the baleful sound they make trying to get a mate into their nest. It almost sounds like a baby's wail. I do a quick sketch of the limpkin's long legs and slender, curving bill, the variegation of its brown and white feathers.”
― The Marsh Queen
