Sketching for beginners in markers, pencils, marker pens: technology and step-by-step lessons

People learned to draw a long time ago, it's worth remembering the cave paintings.

Almost everyone draws, because this significant skill gives a person the opportunity to embody his individual ideas. These ideas each drawer demonstrates to the world in a particular form and in a particular light.

Nowadays an interesting technique of making graphic notes - sketchnoting - is becoming very popular all over the world. In translation from English "sketch" means "sketch", "sketch", "sketch".

Why is this happening? Yes, because such sketches on paper can be learned by anyone who wants to draw.

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Peculiarities of sketching and principles of sketching with markers and felt-tip pens

Many beginners in drawing think that sketching is a new trend in painting. But they are mistaken. The sketch is always present in classical painting, as it is a sketch, a sketch of future work.

Designers, in turn, also use this method to present their plans to the client very quickly and clearly.

Today sketching is becoming a bright, interesting artistic trend in contemporary art with its own unique characteristics.

Characteristic features:

speed (minimal time is spent on the sketch to convey ideas, emotions);
emotionality - a great reason for cooperation;
Effectiveness - an attractive factor for customers;
the absence of any rules in the process of drawing for their observance;
in this direction there are no principles of academic drawing, only your own vision of the world and its reproduction on paper;
in many professions, the use of sketching is considered a reasonable and expedient solution to organizational issues;
ease of learning.

As for the principles of creating such drawings with markers and felt-tip pens, it is worth noting the convenient use of these materials for sketching. However, the advantages of markers are significant.

They include:

In the possibility of mixing colors without softening, as is done in working with watercolors.
They can always be on hand.
It is almost impossible to get dirty with them.
If you have difficulty with a palette, switching to a graphic is not difficult.
Markers are very often used in different types of sketching: (interior, industrial and other directions).

For novice sketch enthusiasts, even children's felt-tip pens will work fine at first.

Types of sketching

Used by artists of this direction there are about a dozen types. Popular categories are:

Travel sketching. A distinctive feature of such sketches, which demonstrate individual impressions during a variety of trips, is the ability to "catch" and capture a moment in the drawing.

Food-sketching. The essence of this type is to create an exciting drawing of food. Sketches of this type can very often be found in culinary publications (books, magazines, booklets).

Fashion sketching. This type is the privilege of fashion designers, stylists, designers, and makeup artists. Here it is especially important not only to know the proportions of the human body, but also to convey them correctly on paper. Knowledge of the materials used and their textures will also come in handy.

Interior Sketching. This type is used by interior designers and decorators. Professionals consider it one of the most difficult types, since an understanding of the laws of perspective is required. In addition to knowledge of these subtleties need the ability to convey very clearly the scale and proportions, meticulously display the colors, textures, light of the proposed space.

Industrial Sketching. These sketches of design, ranging from household objects to industrial objects, are used by designers. Thus, they offer various innovative ideas in this area.

Architectural sketching. Differs from the previous type with sketches of city streets, buildings, architectural components that fill the space of cities and villages. Specialists often use this type of sketching when working on projects.

Floristic sketching. This is a tool for florists and decorators. It is used to create models of décor, which involves living and interior flowers.

Landscape Sketching. This type is akin to the architectural essence. The difference is in the objects of visualization. This type - sketches of the future landscape environment, which designers demonstrate to customers.

Sketch portrait. This is an ordinary portrait, but created by the author in an individual manner of writing. It appears as a simplified drawing of a face.

Artists choose specific types for their work. To become better acquainted with the types of sketching that exist, a brief excursion into the individual style images is offered.

Illustrations

To become a really good illustrator, you must first learn to observe.

And then there are the basics of sketching, which give:

the ability to see things that previously fell out of the field of attention;
the ability to pass the environment through the lens of one's own vision (atmosphere, light and color schemes, people's postures and moods, the most unnoticed details);
absence of fear of a blank sheet of paper, when the desire to sketch literally everything that comes into one's field of vision is fully embraced;
a real chance to find one's own style, individual handwriting;
understanding of perspective, concrete positioning of different objects in the seen space;
a chance to feel the composition, to plan it, to choose the most interesting angles;
an opportunity to learn to draw rather quickly and freely.

The most important thing that sketching gives a novice illustration creator is unusual, unique and daring ideas. And here you don't have to think of anything, you just have to go out into the world and observe everything going on around you.

Floristic drawings

These sketches are images of plants, flowers of various kinds, shapes, shades. On the basis of these drawings, floral compositions are created.

The drawing should begin with the choice of a particular flower of a simple shape. Such a choice will allow for a better understanding of the presence of light and shade, as well as to work out the necessary details of the flower and convey its volume.

Drawings of this type help to understand the correct application of combined materials such as watercolor plus markers or pen - liner.

Interior Drawings

Learning this sketching involves:

Becoming familiar with the materials you will have to use during your work.
Acquiring the skills to reflect ideas in quick, concise sketches.
Learning the basics and properties of composition sketches, the laws of perspective.
Development of figurative thinking, contributing to the image of various three-dimensional forms.
Learning the basics of technical conveyance of color, light, and shadows, which fully help create the illusion of perfect volume.
Practical assignments in which the beginner drawer will learn to use sketch markers, liner, and watercolor, and later to mix techniques.
Emphasis on depicting draperies of different materials, and sketching in different lighting.
Mastering the principles that allow you to achieve harmony in the composition you create, and to bring an individual mood.
Mastering the skills of building a specific interior in perspective.
Attending master-classes on this type of sketching, to grasp the basics of interior sketching will not be difficult. The result will be the development of your own unique projects.

Travelling sketches

The original innovative method of preserving the memory of travel through cities and countries is a quick sketching - travel-sketching. The question may arise: "Why is it necessary if it is easier and simpler to take a picture?

The fact is that the desire to draw during a vacation, business trip or short-term picnic is a personal impression of the space seen.

The drawer of specific places more thoroughly remembers the places visited and the sights considered, rather than the photographer.

The creator of such sketches, putting various images on paper, feels and remembers everything that happened to him during such sketches. And this feeling remains forever, it is impossible to forget.

The main thing in this direction is not an art education, but training, the development of the ability to see and convey, patience (not always everything works from the first time).

This is self-taught art, in which spontaneity, the impulse of the soul to create a sketch is the main, driving force.

Fancy illustrations

If you have a desire to learn fashion sketching, there are master classes, video courses, practical classes, self-study.

Don't forget one thing: all achievements begin with small trials. There are no quick victories. Any way of mastering this direction is good in its own way.

But the basic "recipes" do exist:

Disproportion. The image of the grotesque model represents the dynamics in the composition of a particular sketch. You may notice that very often, fashion sketches show a rather catchy disproportionality of the figure and its parts. Surprisingly, this works very well.
"The Half-Truth. The understatement in the depiction of the entire figure, the lack of scrupulous drawing out of every small element
is effective. In such a presentation, the image is represented by a somewhat generalized model, which will allow each customer to speculate on the idea at his own discretion.
The effect of advertising. The drawing must captivate the viewer for an extremely short time, but leave him in the memory.
Work on the main requirement of this direction is not to slow down. Hand movements should perform honed movements.
Know and use certain rules of placing several compositional sketches on the sheet.

Today, fashion sketching is a creative approach for innovative presentation of fashion images.

Sketch Portrait .

Virtually anyone can draw a portrait with basic drawing skills such as:

The ability to structure an image according to basic rules;
mastery of the patterns of light and shade;
Possession of knowledge of the anatomy of the human body and its proportions.

In the technique of creating a portrait in the sketch style there are peculiarities:

Formation of an oval. The basis is a vertical line, to which the head is depicted proportionally and symmetrically. The shape of the skull is constructed in contours.
The oval is divided into five sections, where the details of the face are drawn.
The appropriate location of the elements on the vertical line is checked.
The transition to the important step is the drawing of the eyes, nose and mouth, taking into account all the anatomical distinctive features.
The final step after building the structure of the face is drawing the details and shading the shadows.

Working according to these recommendations, everything will work out over time.

Materials for sketching

The following supplies are needed for the class:

Sketchbooks, analogues can act as spiral notebooks, albums, single sheets, notepads with cold-pressed paper;
pencils of varying degrees of hardness;
alcohol-based markers;
felt-tip pens;
brush pens (brushes);
paints (watercolors) and circular brushes.