The Urban Sketching Handbook Color First, Ink Later: A Dynamic Approach to Drawing and Painting on Location (Volume 15) (Urban Sketching Handbooks, 15) PDF
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THE URBAN SKETCHING HANDBOOK COLOR FIRST, INK LATER A Dynamic Approach to Drawing and Painting on Location Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara Author of Sketch Now, Think Later The Story Behind the Book, and a Dedication Whenever there’s a sketching opportunity, I always reach for my sketchbook inside my backpack and start sketching right away. I’m typically with my wife during these times, and she always asks me, “Sketch now, or color first?” Over the years, she has realized that I sketch in two very different ways in terms of approach and time required; I either Sketch NOW or COLOR First. My wife always wants to know if she needs to wait either a short amount of time or up to an hour for me to complete a sketch. Throughout the years, she has also constantly asked me when I will work on a follow-up book to Sketch Now, Think Later about this new sketching approach that I’ve been working on. To top it off, she even came up with the exact title of this book that you’re reading right now. There’s no doubt that this book would not have existed if it wasn’t for my wife Kana and her constant love, support, and advice throughout my sketching journey. I can’t thank her enough! Contents Introduction How This Book Was Made Approaches and Their Differences: Sketch NOW and COLOR First Subjects That Suit the Color First, Ink Later Approach 01 Essential Techniques The Five-Step Process Thinking in Layers Step 0: Penciling (Optional) Step 1: Coloring (Phase 1) Step 2: Dripping Drying Time Step 3: Inking Step 4: Coloring (Phase 2) Step 5: Finishing (Black, White, and Grays) 02 Approach and Overview Demonstration: Architecture Demonstration: Residence Demonstration: Retail Interior Demonstration: Riverside Cemetery Sketch Now, Think Later and Color First, Ink Later: Side-by-Side Comparison 03 Step-by-Step Process Color Bucket Families Using Color—Initial Layer Step-by-Step Process: Factory Building Step-by-Step Process: Construction Vehicle 04 Technique Tips and Gallery Tip 1: Greenery Tip 2: Brick Walls and Other Architectural Surfaces Tip 3: Skipping or Faking What You Can’t See Tip 4: Skies Tip 5: Aysmmetrical/Selective Inking Gallery Master List: Tools & Supplies About the Author Introduction In 2017, I released my first book on sketching called Sketch Now, Think Later, which captured fifteen years of my sketching knowledge and brought Urban Sketching into busy lives with the use of minimal tools, techniques, and time. This technique focused on quickly capturing a scene with a pen and adding color later on. I still use this technique daily, but I’ve also started to incorporate another approach when I have just a little more time—an hour, to be exact. In these situations, I take the exact opposite approach: I start with the color first, and then move on to inking. This approach still utilizes minimal tools, but I was surprised on how much more color and dynamics it brought to the overall sketch. Now whenever I’m about to start a sketch, I ask myself: Should I sketch NOW or COLOR first? I’m still on this journey of exploring the world of on-location sketching, but one constant with all the sketches I have done is that they all provide me with pure joy in making them. I hope to be able to share this joy with everyone, and I hope you can give it a try for yourself, too. How This Book Was Made Like a true Urban Sketcher, I used a small video camera attached to my sketchbook to create all the detailed on-location demonstrations in this book. The small camera allowed me to take snapshots of my entire process, so I was able to review footage later on to select the photo that best captured each step. This process allowed me to fully concentrate on my sketch without thinking about documenting each step along the way. Since I wasn’t concerned about recording each step precisely, I was able to select the images of what I actually sketched as opposed to how I thought I sketched. I call this the difference between in practice (how I actually sketch) and theory (how I should sketch). In this book I focus my attention as much as possible on the in practice approach. The results of the sketches shown in the book may not be perfect compared to sketching indoors in a controlled environment, but I believe these sketches convey both the challenges and the joy of sketching on location. Approaches & Differences Sketch NOW, Think Later and Color First, Ink Later In Sketch Now, Think Later, the process is: In COLOR First, Ink Later, it’s: You might be thinking, “What’s the big difference in switching the order of tools used?” I actually had the same thoughts in the beginning until I found the wonderful results that came from using the COLOR First approach. If the Sketch NOW approach is about capturing the moment, then I believe the COLOR First approach is really about
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