Enjoy a personalized copy of this wonderful book! A lovely gift for you or for someone who needs some inspiration to get creative.
Drawn On The Way is a lovely, accessible guide to making quick sketches of our world, designed for busy people on the go who only have a few minutes in their day for creativity. Using simple, portable tools like a pen, sketchbook and markers to draw the people, places and things that make up our lives, you'll learn how to find — and draw — the extraordinary in the everyday.
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More about what's inside:
This is more than a book about how to draw.
This is a book about how to see: how to see the world differently, as a place filled with stories; how to see the people around you differently, as works of art; and how to see yourself differently, as someone whose voice has a place, even if it’s just in the private pages of your own sketchbook.
This book is a warm invitation to engage your own creativity, using simple supplies and a universal and ever-present source of inspiration: the world.
This book will not teach you how to draw like me; rather, it will guide you through the process of drawing from life in your own style.
We spend most of our lives on the way, rushing and running from place to place, task to task. When we have a spare minute, we usually reach for our phones and shut everything else out. The techniques, projects, and ideas in Drawn on the Way are designed to help you be more mindful about drawing, to capture the people, places, and things you encounter each day and to learn to see your world with more joy, appreciation and meaning.
Even if you are inexperienced at drawing or don’t consider yourself an artist, you can learn how to create sketches from start to finish by discovering how each sketch tells a story. I’ll share helpful techniques and tips to bring that story to life including: composition, contour drawing and linework, and adding color.
As you unplug, set aside perfectionism, and explore the world through drawing, you’ll learn:
- How to translate what you see into a compelling drawing
- How to silence your inner critic and find joy in drawing what captures your interest
- Techniques for drawing figures and creating quick portraits
- How to find the emotion in objects by asking questions
- How to draw scenes and backgrounds without becoming overwhelmed
- How to quickly and expressively render the natural world, including plants and animals
- How key details can take a sketch from plain to captivating
- Ways to find the extraordinary in the everyday
- How to transform mistakes into likeable elements
- Tips for becoming a visual storyteller
- Life lessons learned from years of live drawing