Essay on Sketching and Drawing

Sketching is a form of drawing that belongs to sketching, and both sketching and drawing have their own characteristics. They exercise different aspects of human ability.

Sketch: shorter and more flexible, it focuses on the dynamics of characters, wonderful expressions, touching scenes or fleeting landscapes. It trains one's power of observation, expression, memory and generalization. It is a good way to practice.

Sketching: Sketching in the broad sense includes sketching. Drawing in a narrow sense, refers to a longer time, showing the effect of light and shadow, perspective and the phenomenon of reality, showing the structure of the object such as monochrome painting. It trains one's power of observation, expression, and narration of details, and has very precise requirements for picture levels, front and back, space, perspective, structure, block, reality and falsehood.

Sketching and sketching do not have who is higher than who. Just like Chinese painting and oil painting, they are two different forms of expression.

The Role of Sketching

For beginners, sketching is a method of training comprehensive modeling ability, and is the application and development of the overall consciousness that we advocate in sketching. The comprehensiveness of sketching is mainly limited by the short time of sketching, and this short time is also limited by the activity characteristics of the sketching object. Because sketching is the main depiction of objects in motion, the artist is bound to express himself in a simple and comprehensive way without sufficient time to analyze and think.

Sketching can develop our keen observation ability and make us good at capturing the beautiful moments in life.

Sketching develops our ability to generalize in drawing, enabling us to draw the characteristics of an object in a short period of time.

Sketches can collect a lot of material for creation, and a good sketch is a perfect work of art in itself.

Sketching can improve our ability to memorize images and mime.

Sketching can explore and develop a unique style of painting.

Therefore, for beginners, sketching is a basic course for learning to synthesize the shape of moving objects in a simplified form.

Sketching is a way for the creator of a painting to feel life and record his feelings. Sketching makes these feelings and imaginations visualized and concrete. Sketching is the inevitable way from modeling training to modeling creation. Regular practice of sketching, can make us quickly grasp the basic structure of the human body, skilled in drawing characters and a variety of animal dynamics and demeanor, the composition of the creative arrangement and the organization of the content of the plot will be of great help.

For the creators of paintings, sketching is a way to feel life and record feelings. Sketching makes these feelings and imaginations visualized and concrete. Sketching is an inevitable way to move from modeling training to modeling creation.

Note: There is no real sense of sketch in art! sketch is the sketch as well as the sketch of the collective term

Figure creation sketch skills

Dynamic sketch technique is a sign of the painter's maturity. Dynamic sketching of the human body requires not only a high level of modeling ability and overall awareness, but also a keen ability to feel and skillful use of anatomical knowledge of the experience. However, we can not say that the study of dynamic sketching should be placed after the completion of basic training, on the contrary, we should be in the basic sketch training at the same time for dynamic sketching practice. In Europe, the character sketch is used as the main modeling training means, and now some places in China from the children's stage began to cultivate the ability of character sketch, but also played a very good effect.

Dynamic sketching and static sketching is very different, in the object of change at any time, you can't use the repeated observation method to capture the object, and can't use the pre-prepared method to show the object, the dynamic sketching relies on the object of the process of change in the dynamics of the selected "selected" and selected action of feeling and memory. "Selection" is a technique unique to dynamic sketching. Selection refers to the specific choice of the momentary movements of the active object, that is, the sketcher faces the free movement of the object figure, and selects the most meaningful momentary dynamics in a series of movements of the object. The selection of dynamic sketching action should meet two conditions, one is the selected action to have "modeling"; the other is the dynamic to have a sense of beauty, two conditions are indispensable. For example, when we select a person running action, we should select the dynamic that best reflects the speed, strength and robustness, that is, the leg span is the largest, the arm swing the largest dynamic, if we choose the dynamic of the overlap of the hands and feet, the effect of the drawing will be like walking rather than running. It is also very important to feel and memorize the selected dynamics, which is a one-time process, unlike sketching, which can be repeated many times. This one-time memory must be perceptual. If we lose the perceptual memory, the movements we draw may become formulaic and conceptualized. Only by virtue of the specificity of the feeling of a particular action, supplemented by the knowledge of human anatomy, we can draw such as running madly or running leisurely and so on to avoid similar works. In practice, it is inconceivable that we can accomplish a specific dynamic sketch with only a momentary observation. We must rely on the general experience of this particular action and related knowledge memory supplement to complete the work. In order to achieve the above requirements in dynamic sketching training, we must learn to "seize" and "dynamic line". Dynamic line is the main line in the human body to show the characteristics of the action. Dynamic line is generally expressed in the human body action in the relationship between large volume changes. Character side, the dynamic line is often reflected in the side of the outer contour; when the character front, the dynamic line will be highlighted in the spine and limb changes. It is essential to grasp the dynamic line to draw a good dynamic sketch.

How to draw a good dynamic line? We should pay attention to the following aspects:

(1) The dynamic line is generated by the human body movement changes, it is the most obvious shape, clothing and body tightly affixed to the part.

(2) when drawing the dynamic line, we should grasp the big parts, grasp the key momentum and pay attention to the dynamic center of gravity.

(3) The dynamic line is a very concise line, according to the complexity of the movement to determine the number of dynamic lines, in each movement, the main dynamic line is only one, the other is the dynamic auxiliary line.

(4) Capture the structural relationship of each key part of the human body, such as the head and shoulders, arms and torso, pelvis and legs, joints of the thighs and calves, and the joints of the calves and feet

Dynamic sketching steps are:

(1) Observe the dynamic object carefully, select a typical dynamic, concentrate on the spirit of the whole feeling of the dynamic characteristics of the full force.

(2) Quickly draw the main dynamic line and dynamic auxiliary line.

(3) Draw volume relationships from observation or memory.

(4) Quickly draw the clothing lines that express the dynamic forces.

(5) Fill in details from observation and knowledge of anatomy.

(6) Adjust the rhythm of form according to the structural requirements of the picture.

(7) Carve the head to finish. As a beginner, it is difficult to start drawing dynamic sketches.

Beginners in the beginning of dynamic sketching can choose the repetitive dynamic objects to practice, such as sawing, shoveling, etc., to be skilled and accumulated experience, and then carry out dynamic exercises such as dance, sports. Dynamic sketching is a training course that requires great efforts and cultivates professionalism, and only through unremitting and hard training all year round can we develop a handful of hard work in dynamic sketching, and lay a solid foundation for creating excellent works of art in the future. The skill of dynamic sketching is a sign of the painter's maturity