![]() You can’t learn such things by taking a photo. Draw what you discover Even if I never include this old window and cable drum (at right) in a painting, I now know how these drums are constructed, and have a feeling for light passing through a window and creating shapes of light on interior forms. The following are a few of the ways I use my sketchbook to help me understand the forms of my subjects more fully.ĥ. The insights you gain will become a permanent part of your understanding-something that will be evident in the next drawing of a similar subject. Probe beyond what the eye can see to the inner structure of a form. Instead, use drawing to gain understanding. You may find, as I do, that a particular form is too hard to understand and cannot be drawn in the way you want. You can write in your sketchbook, try new materials or subject matter, even doodle or dream. The drawings in it need never be seen, so you can finish them to whatever degree suits you. Use your sketchbook in whatever manner serves your needs. I’d like to explore the sketchbook as a tool and inspire you to use it more and more as a vital part in the way you create art. The kinds of drawings you do in your sketchbook will vary depending on your reasons for rendering them. (A sketching lesson excerpted from Your Artist’s Brain) ![]() ![]() Draw, Doodle and Dream Use your sketchbook to expand your understanding of the structures in the world around you.
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