12 Sketchbooks of the Pros
Interview with illustrator Molly's Egan about her bold use of color, layering and graphic shapes. www.trialbyinspiration.com
Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a fifteenth-century monk working in South-West Germany, where ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed.
saw this dress at anthropologie and really wanted to draw that pretty embroidery.
Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris). Date: 1873. Medium: Graphite heightened with black and white chalk on pink wove paper (now faded); sq...
Die cut Axolotl stickers! Choose your favorite color ^_^. Handmade by me :3 These stickers are good for indoor use only. Perfect for notebooks, Journals, sketchbooks, and laptops! Not suitable for any heave weathering or getting into water. *Colors may be slightly different from on monitor* *Please note that colors shown on the monitor may be slightly different in person.* Size for the Axolotls: 2.5" x ~2" All sticker orders will be shipped through letter envelopes! Please allow 2-3 weeks for USA orders to arrive and 1-2 months for international orders.
Ines Jakovljević's drawings are intensely personal and yet creepily inhuman.
Lily Seika Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1989. She was raised in Vancouver, Canada where she attended the University of British of Columbia and comple
In the mid-20th century, American illustration witnessed an explosion in lush, impressionistic pencil drawing. Assignments that would previously have been completed in paint or ink were now handled in pencil or charcoal by a remarkable group of illustrators who worked with a sensitive, expressive line. These included the great Carl Erickson (known as "Eric"): Austin Briggs: Note the broad variety of lines in this simple drawing Briggs employs a slender outline for the figure,contrasted with a thick, vigorous crayon for the folds. Rene Bouche: Bernie Fuchs: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Bob Peak: Peak also did the portrait of James Cagney, above In previous generations, the printing process could not pick up such subtleties, so talented illustrators who worked in pencil (such as F.R. Gruger or Arthur William Brown) were unable to take drawing to such extremes. In the 1930s we begin to see experimental illustrators such as Al Parker basing illustrations on delicate pencil work: ...and within a few decades become quite comfortable with pencil's more aggressive applications: Graphite and wash Detail Famed art director Otto Storch became concerned that some of Bernie Fuchs' delicate lines were too light to reproduce, so he called Fuchs and asked him to darken them. Fuchs was adamant about the effect he wanted, and refused. Storch thought for a moment and asked, "Well, would you at least be willing to wear a heavier watch?" We like to believe that changes in the arts result from developments in the human mind or spirit. But sometimes changes are prompted by something as simple as a mechanical invention. For example, the invention of the piano helped inspire the Romantic Era in music. Before the piano, composers wrote for the harpsichord which made clipped, succinct sounds. The piano suddenly gave composers new expressive power; they could create long, sustaining notes, deeper resonance, greater control over subtle nuances and a broader range of sounds. Enthralled by their new capability, composers such as Beethoven and Chopin began writing music that was more lush and emotional. The improvement in printing gave 20th century illustrators the gift of more expressive power, and in the drawings above we witness their delight over their new gift. For the first time, illustrators could capture delicate gestures and a wider variety of lines. It did not take them long to bring out the full symphony of effects from a pencil.
It must be nice to have a really great sketch book. I've always had big plans for one but, no matter how great my intentions, they always end up as unfinished, coffee-stained disasters; shoved to the back of my shelf sulking in the plain embarrassment that comes with being quite so awful.
It’s amazing how a series of simple line drawings can take on a life of it’s own. Moscow-based artist Nataliya Platonova has filled her Moleskin notebook with a cast of eclectic characters feasting on dinner. It’s…
In my townie neighborhood, a small stream trickles through masonry walls on a bed of cement. A heavy downpour doesn’t call it to life so much as flush its trash down the sewer. The city has constru…
Explore julie west's 538 photos on Flickr!
An ‘A’ grade, AS Level Ceramics Coursework project by Shawn Kwan, of Mayfield School, United Kingdom. The level of detail and insight provided by Shawn makes this a valuable read for anyone considering undertaking a ceramic project themselves.
From treasured childhood notebooks to drawing with his daughter, Perry’s sketchbooks are the place where the artist learns if an idea is ‘a goer or a dud’
Comic artist Lynda Barry has a new book, Making Comics, and a MacArthur Genius Grant (though she says she hung up on the MacArthur folks repeatedly because she thought it was a robocall).
An interview with Emma Carlisle about her landscapes of Devon and Cornwall made with expressive marks in pencil, watercolour, gouache and acrylic.
This is a very useful sheet for all GCSE students. It's a writing frame that should help you to structure the annotations you make in your sketchbooks. It's very important to explain each piece of artwork in your book with a small amount of writing, but it's easy to write the wrong things, and hard to use the right artistic language. Following the five headings and using the phrases on this sheet will make your annotations better, and help you gain marks. You can access the sheet online by clicking here. I hope you find it helpful!
Layouts, Story Sketches, and Background Art from "My Neighbour Totoro", "Kiki's Delivery Service", and "Castle in the Sky". ...
Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a fifteenth-century monk working in South-West Germany, where ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed.
Fais des carnets de voyages quand je pars en voyage, et fais des pastiches de carnets de voyage quand je ne pars pas en voyage
