This very special book features a 224-page collection of artist Alvin Chong's famous "blue pencil" sketches that he has been working on for the last three years. Every single page is full of inspiration, creativity and Alvin's unique style. An outstanding addition for any artists' or art aficionado's library.
The Museum of Sketches for Public Art (Swedish Skissernas museum - Arkiv för dekorativ konst, also known in English as the Archive of Decorative Art) is an art museum at Lund University in Sweden, dedicated to the collection and display of sketches and drawings for contemporary monumental and public art, such as frescos, sculpture and reliefs. The museum contains about 25,000 items, including sketches and contest entries by leading 20th-century Swedish artists such as Isaac Grünewald, other Nordic artists and foreign artists such as Henry Moore, Diego Rivera and Henri Matisse.
Art Sketches
When the justices pivoted to holding oral argument by telephone because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Art was ready. Art asked the arguing lawyers to send him pictures of their oral argument set-ups, and the vast majority of them agreed. The series of sketches that followed was in a sense a metaphor for the pandemic itself. Instead of standing at a lectern before the justices, dozens of lawyers argued alone (or, sometimes joined by students wearing masks), but with very different approaches: Some dressed formally and stood at their own lectern, while others wore hoodies and sat at a table. And at least one lawyer, we saw, argued from her home office, with her cat perched on a nearby shelf.
I also learned the hard way- several months ago someone commissioned me to do a painting. Because she was a friend, I did not think necessary to write an agreement. I spent many hours sketching but she could not make her mind. I stopped the process. Even the sketches are in my possession and she did not take my idea to anyone else, I did spend many hours working for free.
Oh man, if only this article had been written last year. I can attest to Maria being right. I spent hours on many sketches for a friend/client who contacted me. I drove an hour to their home spent a couple hours there talking to them about it and it sounded like it was on. She even had me revise some of my sketches. I sent her an email with quote but did not ask for a down payment to do the sketches. Boy was that a costly mistake for me. She avoided contact with me for a while and then when I called her finally to ask when we can start, she had some lame excuse of that they had to buy something instead and might get back to me. Oy!
This is why arbitrary requirements like a set number of thumbnail sketches make no sense. They become merely a hoop to jump through when we should be teaching students the value of meaningful planning. The focus becomes meeting the required number of sketches when it should be on collecting enough information to make a successful artwork.
Whatever your method, your goal should be to teach students an array of planning methods they are able to apply independently. Thumbnail sketches are great for discovering how to best arrange a composition, but there are so many other ways to start a piece of art.
We must carefully examine how often we give less challenging tasks, like assigning all students the same number of thumbnail sketches. To make our instruction truly rigorous and relevant, we must teach our students the skills they need to work independently.
The demonstration shows simple strategies on how to crop or expand your thumbnail sketches and how to diversify your options. Demo and discussion led by Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Cat Huang.
Read on to learn four essential tips to prepare your sketches for the computer, along with step-by-step instructions on how to digitize your sketches in three different creative programs: Illustrator, Photoshop, and Procreate.
To take my drawings a step further, I like to use tracing paper and go over my original sketches. This type of paper is slightly translucent, giving you the ability to trace over your original sketches and polish up your designs even more. For designers who prefer to have a detailed sketch before moving onto the digitizing phase, this step is an absolute must.
Scanning your sketches is the last step before bringing them into design software. To ensure a seamless transition from paper to software, scan your sketches at 300 PPI (pixels per inch) or more. The higher the pixels per inch, the crisper the scan will be.
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