What is sketching?

Broadly speaking, sketching refers to all monochrome drawings. Sketching originated from the cultivation of Western modeling ability.

Sketching in a narrow sense refers to the process of drawing training used to learn art techniques, explore modeling rules, and develop professional habits. Fine art is a means of expressing things. The basis of art is modeling, art modeling is a complex labor in accordance with the natural way, is a special skill that requires long-term training to form. Artistic modeling is not just about shaping isolated and static objects, but more importantly about expressing the organic relationship of various forms in an object. To master the method of artistic modeling, it is necessary to restore the natural way of thinking and operation, to study the formal characteristics of natural objects and to recognize its changing rules and conditions. Sketching is the best way to solve these modeling problems, which has been completely proved in the practice of artistic modeling, therefore, sketching is called "the foundation of the plastic arts".

Drawing usually implies a method of leaving marks on a flat surface, such as crayon, charcoal, pen, pencil, chalk, black and brown ink, ink, and paper, and also includes abrasion on the surface of moistened clay, ink-stained cloth, metal, stoneware, vessels, or cloth. Sketching is the basis of all painting, and it is a stage through which the process of study must pass.

Outline and line are the general designations for sketching. Sketching possesses a sense of natural rhythm and the viewer can feel this in the process of appreciation. Different strokes of the brush create different lines and cross-cutting relationships, and include rhythm, active and passive surroundings, planes, volumes, tones, and textures.

Drawing is a formal art form that can be used to represent things in the intuitive world with monochromatic lines (or two or more colors) or painted surfaces, or to express ideas, concepts, attitudes, feelings, fantasies, symbols, and even abstract forms. Rather than focusing on totality and color, as in painting, it focuses on structure and form. (Encyclop?dia Britannica)

In the book Dictionary of Western Art (published by Lion Books), the only explanation related to sketching is sketch, which is considered a rough sketch of a work or part of a work, the artist's study of the points of light and shadow, composition, and the scale of the whole; it is the preliminary composition of the whole picture, or one of them. A sketch by a landscape artist is usually a small, rapid record of the effects of light in a landscape, and a preparation for future ideas for repainting.

The sketch is an expression of line and surface. Every object under the light has three parts: light, gray and dark. From the darkest to the brightest, they are: the line between light and dark, the dark part, the reflection, the gray part, and the light part. In painting, the light part should try to avoid dirty, the dark part should try to avoid boring (i.e., due to too many lines and no space and reflections).

Drawing is a necessary foundation for other arts, especially watercolor, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture (relief), and also for graphic design, and for sketching. Although sketching is seen as a two-dimensional art, not requiring color and a third dimension, it implies both.

Definition of Sketching (from the Cornwall Teacher's Manual)

Dessin in French - Drawing in English - is called "sketching" in Chinese. Sketching is the practice of drawing on a given area or on a flat material (paper, cloth ......) - depicting the position of an external form in space - and training to master the levels of light and shade and the basic image of an object.

Learning In the process of sketching practice, sketching must focus on the relationship between light, objects, the brush strokes of the depiction method, the form observed by their own eyes, the specific and subtle rendering. Therefore, sketching needs to develop one's power of observation. In addition, sketching can also be interpreted as the effort between "existence" and "painting", which is also called "the power of depiction in painting". For example, if you draw a still life on a table, you can not only find the different colors on the still life, but also find the sense of security on the table and the harmony between the background. All these complex factors, such as shape, color, line, light and darkness, texture, sense of quantity, sense of existence, space, dynamics, and so on, intertwine with each other to form a beautiful order. Painting is to convert those natural orders into a beautiful and picturesque order, which is also the meaning and purpose of sketching. Sketching is the foundation of painting, and it is the kind of painting that can best reflect the level of human painting. Therefore, in the study, we should be down-to-earth, hold the balance, and not be impetuous.

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Unicorn (drawing) European art in the late 19th century, due to the later impressionism, cubism on the nature of the different pursuit and exploration of art, so that the entity shape and color depiction of the complete liberation, and, therefore, also changed the traditional way of drawing training. In some countries, such as the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Paris I in France, the course of "Drawing" was replaced by "The Study of Two Dimensions, Monochrome and Polychrome". In this kind of curriculum, sketching has a wider space and more flexible materials, so that students can use different media to engage in the practice of two-dimensional shape-making. Therefore, in addition to the basic concept of sketching, more flexibility and adaptability should be given to the training of sketching media, so that the training of sketching can not only be in line with the trend of art, but also show more vitality and a wider range of expressive power.

Drawing is the basic expression of painting. Since the main formative elements of painting are line and color, in order to bring out the infinite beauty of a limited space, one must be skilled in the techniques of formative expression, and be able to achieve it at will. Sketching is a record of the artist's efforts to observe, experience, imagine, select, and reorganize the idea of beauty using the simplest of tools.

Because of its emphasis on the process of painting development, there may be various kinds of experimentation, so the content and form of sketching expression are also diverse and rich.

Sketching is not only the basis for learning to paint, a good sketch is an independent work of art in itself. Because it is easier to use the tools, and is completed in a shorter period of time, it is often more direct than after a lot of processing of paintings to convey the author's instant inspiration and passion, to capture the vivid flavor of the object painted. In some masterpieces of sketching, you can get the kind of intuitive artistic feeling that is not easy to appreciate in other paintings.

Many painting masters in the history of Western art, has left a large number of sketches, such as the three Renaissance masters, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Angell, Levin, Mentzel, etc.; and some of the great painters are very few, such as Titian, Velázquez, because they are long in the canvas directly, so there is not much left of the sketch manuscripts; but from the only few works on the works can be seen on the unique efforts of the sketch. But from the few works we have seen, we can still see their unique skill in sketching.

Unicorn (sketching) sketching of the five tones of light and dark: bright part, semi-bright part, light and dark interface (darkest), projection surface, reflective surface sketching to focus on the basics of the drawing of multi-geometry is very mention the ability!

Sketching, generally start with a plaster statue, with a plaster statue as the initial stage of the teaching content, the favorable conditions are: First, the plaster statue is a white object, easy for us to observe the character head shape structure of the relationship between the turn and the hierarchy of the difference; Second, the plaster statue is static, for the first time to learn to sketch students, which for them to observe and depict the object in detail and patiently provides the greatest convenience. Convenience. Fade the character skin color, hair of the various differences and changes, will make us more directly feel the essence of the object's form and structure; In addition, the plaster statue is usually modeled on the classic carvings of the European ancient art masters and oriental artists, these statues themselves have been sculpted by the artist's generalization, induction, strengthening the processing and performance, the character's image characteristics, structural relationships more strongly distinct, dynamic and emotional more vivid, infectious The character features and structural relationship of the figure are more intense and distinct, and the dynamics and emotions are more vivid and infectious. In gypsum portrait sketching training, this kind of object itself is already a very good example of art, providing us with the best method of structure, form and level. Plaster portrait of the above characteristics in fact, from the other hand, has illustrated the difference between it and portrait sketching of the differences and differences. Then, in the specific process of sketching, the differences and similarities in the expression of what aspects?

Summary, plaster sketching and portrait sketching from the observation method to the performance of the steps there is no essential difference, and is relatively consistent. But in the specific performance skills do have some subtle differences. First of all, the physical structure of the plaster statue and the undulation of the muscle is sculptor with a carving knife to shape out, it has obvious traces of decent generalization, generalization and processing. For example, the eyebrows, whiskers, eyeballs, hair, etc. of the plaster statue are the forms that have been summarized and processed by using decent, lumps. Bone, muscle start and stop relationship are more obvious and strong.

Steps A scientific and strict method of steps can not only ensure that the sketching work goes smoothly, but also develop our overall observation ability and the ability to depict.

1. Establishment of composition

The arrangement of the composition, so that the objects on the picture of the main and secondary appropriate, balanced and varied composition, to avoid scattered, chaotic, empty, stuffed and other ills.

2. Drawing a large physical structure

Drawing the physical structure of the object with a long straight line (the invisible part of the object should also be drawn gently), the shape of the object is required, the proportion of the structure of the relationship between accurate. Then draw the shape and position of each level of light and dark (highlight, light, middle color, dark, projection, and the line where light and dark meet).

3. Gradual in-depth shaping

Through the depiction of the shape of the dark and light (from the whole to the local, from the big to the small) gradually in-depth shaping of the object's sense of volume. The main, critical details should be carefully delineated.

4. Adjustment completed

In-depth delineation of the inevitable neglect of the whole and local interrelationships. At this time to be adjusted comprehensively (mainly refers to the structure of the form also includes color, texture, space, primary and secondary, etc.), to do some give and take, highlighting the main body.