{"product_id":"everyday-sketching-and-drawing-five-steps-to-a-unique-and-personal-sketchbook-habit-paperback","title":"Everyday Sketching and Drawing: Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven B. Reddy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGary Faigin\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eStephanie Bower\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEveryday Sketching and Drawing offers an easy-to-follow, 5-step formula, which teaches beginner-friendly techniques for learning the skills necessary to make drawing and sketching an everyday habit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor those who have always wanted to or tried and failed to learn to draw it provides simple step-by-step instruction, plus easy-to-follow practice exercises, and provides the motivation and inspiration readers need to be successful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor those who already draw, Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers another technique to add to their drawing arsenal. Why do so many adults come to view drawing as difficult or fraught with anxiety? Traditional art instruction is often bogged down with jargon, rules, and admonishments that unintentionally stifle the joy of drawing for its own sake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Reddy's new and easy approach to drawing instructs sketchers to document their unique and compelling lives in realistic yet playful sketches that record the places, spaces, and objects that help define them as individuals. He reminds artists to slow down, notice, and attend to the sketch-worthy scenes and subjects that are unstaged and always there in our everyday lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe offers a versatile technique that can lead to a skill that fills sketchbooks with the visual details that differentiate one life from another. This approach is a meditative, relaxing alternative to academic concerns about perspective, proportion, and accuracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReddy encourages artists to capture in whimsical but detail-specific illustrations their unique, subjective interpretation of their visual surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Reddy's drawing method produces extremely detailed and realistic scenes of objects and scenes in everyday life in a relatively short period of time (60 minutes to 3 hours or more, depending on the sketcher's preference).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModifying a technique utilized by Old Master oil painters, the drawings pass through 5 clearly articulated stages where each step focuses on one visual concept at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven B. Reddy\u003c\/b\u003e teaches drawing and illustration at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. He has also taught for the Seattle Public Schools since 1998. Reddy has a passion for creating detailed illustrations of urban scenes, cluttered interiors, and complex still lifes on location in ink and watercolor. His drawings from China and Mexico appear in Danny Gregory's \u003ci\u003eAn Illustrated Journey\u003c\/i\u003e. Reddy also self-published \u003ci\u003eNow Where Was I? An Illustrated Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, which showcases drawings that span 35 years from his daily sketchbook diaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Faigin\u003c\/b\u003e trained at the Art Students League of New York and at the École Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He has taught at the National Academy School of Design and at Parsons School of Design; currently he is the artistic director of the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, which he also co-founded. He's the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expressions, \u003c\/i\u003ean art instruction classic.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie Bower \u003c\/b\u003e is an architectural illustrator, workshop instructor, blog correspondent for Seattle Urban Sketchers, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.9 x 8.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771325677856,"sku":"9781580935050","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0da1d2f5aff20cd162c0e880894ee8e0.webp?v=1780384696","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/everyday-sketching-and-drawing-five-steps-to-a-unique-and-personal-sketchbook-habit-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}