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When watching a masterful sketcher, it seems that they create elaborate sketches with ease, tracing their pencils on the page and bringing to life rich and detailed drawings. After sweating away hours trying to create a simple sketch, you may find that yours pales in comparison, looking amateurish and unprofessional. Why is it that you cant do what these masters can?
While many assume the difference comes down to accurate strokes and natural talent, you couldnt be further from the truth. Accuracy is not everything - confidence is. And, in this book, Hlavcs helps you to build up your confidence, moving through each layer of drawing and helping you understand exactly why one drawing looks more professional than another. This book breaks down the fear around sketching, walking you through how to create intricate sketches without difficulty.
No other book teaches sketching in such a natural way, allowing anyone - no matter levels of talent or their past in drawing - to learn how to make this beautiful skill an intuitive process. Hlavcs demonstrates sketching as a pathway of logical steps, starting with the most basic elements and then adding further layers to the sketches as the book progresses.
With a range of exercises to move through and pages filled with the psychology of why humans are drawn to certain sketches over others, this book will turn you into the master youve always admired. Instead of aiming for perfection, Hlavacs teaches you how to draw emotionally, using confidence in place of skill and understanding in place of talent.
No matter who you are, The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching will give you rules and demonstrations that will turn every sketch you create into a masterpiece.
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The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching
Why do professional sketches look beautiful?
George Hlavcs
BIS Publishers
BIS Publishers
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The Netherlands
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ISBN 978-90-6369-644-3
Copyright 2014 BIS Publishers and George Hlavcs
Designed by: Lilian van Dongen Torman
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Some people make rough, fast, nonchalant sketches and they look brilliant. For others, it takes hours of blood, sweat and tears to produce drawings that are accurate yet still look unprofessional. The question is why?
As a lecturer in cognitive ergonomics at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, I consider human reactions to visual information, and I also teach sketching. So I thought that if I could analyze and describe how our mind reacts to different aspects of handmade sketches, I would be able to teach drawing skills much more easily.
Sometimes I meet an old school teacher of sketching whose main aim is to teach people to draw accurately. I am convinced that this traditional way of learning to draw is fundamentally wrong, because even if people learn to draw accurately, their drawings do not convince. That frustrates people and makes them avoid drawing altogether instead of practising their craft. Fear and uncertainty is then visible in all their work, and they fail to improve.
Salvador Dal, the famous Spanish painter, once said: If you act like a genius you will be a genius! This is especially true when it comes to sketching.
I believe that you must first learn how to make your drawings look like they are the work of a professional and leave the matter of accuracy for later. If you do so, then all your drawings will look professional, whether they are accurate or not. You will achieve much more success even after a few drawing sessions, and things can only improve.
People who cannot draw well usually think that professional sketching is a complex and difficult process. But after reading this book you will find out that even the most complex sketches are just a structure of very simple but confidentially drawn segments layered on top of one another.
In this book I will simply show which features make drawings look professional, and why. You will learn that sketching is more about understanding human reactions to drawings than about mastering techniques or possessing any special skill or talent.
This book will not discuss themes like perspective or how to construct accurate drawings. Nor will it provide details about applying various techniques. Lots of excellent books about such matters are already available. This book is about the the why of sketching. Why do professional sketches look beautiful?
The line is the most important element. Its what lends your drawing its fundamental character. Some good lines are all you need to produce a beautiful drawing. By definition, a line is a geometric figure formed by a point moving along a path in a two- or three-dimensional space. It can be straight or curved. Lines have a uniform thickness and variable curvature. The best way to create them is with a computer, as I did here:
These lines are perfect, but they have fewer characteristics than hand-drawn lines. That is why, despite their perfection, they are quite boring. They dont look like something made by a creative mind or with special skill.
Lines that are drawn by humans have much more character. They have personality and are much more alive. They can express creative skill and craftsmanship, and they have a lot more attributes like variable thickness and accuracy, and dynamic features like smoothness, speediness, easiness, fluency and so on. That is why computer software like SketchBook Pro from Autodesk tries to imitate handmade drawings.
The main problem with learning to sketch is that most beginners focus too much on accuracy. They draw slowly and with concentration. But because humans dont have rulers, compasses and templates built into their hands, their slow lines never look dynamic and confident. Instead, they look crooked and tentative. In addition, lots of tiny inaccuracies become more prominent because of the erroneous desire to draw everything with one single line.
These drawings look unprofessional and uncertain despite the fact that some of them are quite accurate. There is no sign of confidence, ease or dynamism in these drawings, nor any sign of an intelligent creative process.
Dynamism is much more important to the human eye than accuracy. We prefer a drawing that looks dynamic yet less accurate to a drawing that is more accurate yet less dynamic.
Look at the following two circles. Our brain judges emotionally. It will prefer the less accurate but dynamically drawn circle on the left to the more accurate one on the right. That is because dynamic lines express confidence and ease, and these features seem more important to humans than accuracy.
Look at the difference with the perfect orange circle. The drawing on the right is twice as accurate as the drawing on the left, yet the left one looks much better.
The problem is that when you draw slowly you concentrate a lot. As you draw the line your brain is checking its accuracy, continuously controlling the movement of your hand. The tension in the muscles in your hand changes because of the constant corrections. That is why you always end up with slightly crooked lines. The more you try to draw accurately, the less confident your lines will be.
But if you draw just slightly faster, there will be no time for minor corrections and the lines will look much smoother. They will express dynamism and confidence and look much better even if the lines are not exactly where they should be.
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