Playing with Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers and Artists

· Rockport Publishers
3.5
4 reviews
Ebook
192
Pages

About this ebook

DIVDrawing is the backbone of art and design; with all of the tantalizing wonders of the digital world, the best designers, illustrators and artists know that it’s good to step back occasionally and hit the refresh button on your hand and mind. Playing with Sketches is a hands-on, fun approach to exploring drawing principles. Beginning with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play, this book brings you through a series of basic warm-up exercises that can be combined with later projects. Then you’ll move quickly on to more challenging and engaging exercises, including word games, dimensional shapes, and inventive sketchbooks and letterforms, eventually creating a “toolkit� of ideas and skills developed through the process of play. This book features creative, adaptable ideas, and numerous examples of designers and artists responses to each exercise, giving you a peek into their way of thinking and seeing.

/divDIVWith over 25 contributors, from high-profile designers, illustrators and artists to talented graduate students, you see work that will walk you step-by-step through a process or inspire by example. The book provides meaningful outcomes for your practice, including building an image archive, being exposed to new ways to use media and tools, inspiring you to break the rules, to collaborate, and much more!/div

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3.5
4 reviews

About the author

DIVAward-winning illustrator Whitney Sherman was trained as a photographer, held positions as an advertising art director, publications designer,and VP/Creative Director before focusing on illustration asproprietor of Whitney Sherman Illustration. Sherman has taught both graphic design and illustration, and wasundergraduateChair of Illustrationfor ten years before becomingDirector of the MFA in Illustration Practice program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. In addition, she is Co-Director of Dolphin Press & Print @ MICA, and owner of Pbody Dsign which produces limited edition illustrated housewares. She is nationally represented by Gerald & Cullen Rapp, Inc., New York./divDIVwww.whitneysherman.com//div

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