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Sun 28 Mar, 2004 08:31 am
My friends are divided - some use sketch books and others consider it was only 'something you did for your degree course' and don't need to bother with now.
How about you?
I love my sketchbooks - i can jot things down, work out ideas. write stuff, stick bits in. add the odd photo or digital print, simply do quick sketches of scenes or people, work around ideas for large paintings - all sorts of stuff. Sometimes things become finished paintings but not necessarily.
i also love to see other people's sketchbooks, they give a real insight into thought processes.
Turners sketchbooks were amazing and so contemporary, loose and free.
so who keeps sketchbooks going? or doesn't? and why?
I love my sketchbook! It is a place where I can draw, write, stick photos and cards in, whatever. I love my sketchbook and I think that everyone should keep one.
I keep a portfolio of sketchbooks and tools behind the backseat of my truck. It goes with me all over. ive been doing some work in mid New York State recently. Ive been able to catch a bunch of sketches of sugar tapping. Ill do entire scenes, take a picture and , if I want a painting, Ill refer to my sketches because, as you know, a phhoto flattens the life out of a subject.
I also do detailed sketches of pieces of equipment that I come across. The gears and parts are fascinating and I can bring out details by skecthing. I dont consider it a waste but an aid.
I can draw. Is that the same thing as sketching?
I used to carry one around and made sketches almost daily...what happened? I'm not sure, but these days I devote more time to my music and my sketches have become a bit rusty.
Well... notebook in which pictures and ideas go. Close enough I warrent...
Vivien, I was teasing. I have done one oil on canvas board and it's unfinished. I like it though. I understand about a sketch book, but thanks for the link.
Watch this space. I'll be rotating the avatar tonight or tomorrow...
The avatar sketches are quickies... fine detail dissapears when I shrink the large drawings to 90x100 pixels... so the avatars are more like the ballpoint doodles that go into the sketchbook...
I go no where without either my sketchbook or camera. If I don't have the book handy I shoot a picture and sketch it out later.
I think sketch books are an indispensable part of the creative process, at least for me. I use mine to do rough ideas, write notes, draw different angles of an idea and generally use it for every part of an art project except the final piece.
I love my sketchbooks, they are one of the first things I would grab in a fire.
hmm, I never use a sketchbook. many of my art friends have some and use it every day. maybe I am to afraid or lasy to have one.
If I paint, I do it spontaneous, alone at home directly on paper or canvas.
I heard , its importand to use a sketchbook, to hold your ideas.
regards
I forgot about thhe ideas aspect of sketchbooks. I usually use a cheap hardbound 16x20 with relatively cheap paper for quick sketches and ideas. I fill the spaces with notes about perspective or colors. If I do a rough work of a subject I use a 16X20 Bristol book with a very smooth finish. The windsor takes a lot of abuse from eraser and pencil rubbing and holds up really well. However, I still have sketchbooks from my youth that are barely affected by time.
I own a bunch of New England country and water side sketches done by an artist named Emile Gruppe. His work is not holding up too well. Some of his pencil sketches done in the 40s , are yellowing, Im thinking of scanning them and hanging the scanned copies and putting the originals in dark drawers, or give them to a museum in Rockport Mas
I keep, not one but, several sketchbooks. I like to work on my ideas and once it becomes a finish painting, if I sale it, I will always have the original with me. They are both original but the sketches are always what brings you back to that moment when you first had the idea!
Vivien wrote:this is a recent lightning sketch of Rosie - she doesn't keep still for 2 seconds!
best images. She should be get paintress.
I sketch off and on five days a week at my desk and at lunch with my design partner. I walk unencumbered, as it were, the rest of the time, eyes only.
My design partner and I talk about more in space than design, and can hardly talk without a pencil. Still, I don't do it when I am by m'self. If needs be, I'll grab the camera.
Some of this seeming lethargy has to do with years, not age so much as in time spent.
Thok wrote:
best images. She should be get paintress.
thanks Thok - I am! my website address is in my profile
yes me too
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