Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life

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Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life

Name: Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life
Brand: Peaceleap
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Inspiring Guide: This guide offers an inspiring approach to nature drawing, urban sketching, travel drawing, and sketch journaling, encouraging a new perspective on the world.
Artistic Essentials: It provides essential tools, materials, and fundamental technical lessons covering composition, shadows, light, symmetry, and perspective.
Motivational Exercises: The book includes engaging exercises such as drawing from memory, urban sketching, travel journaling, and experimental art to foster skill development.
Visual Learning: Featuring helpful step-by-step instructions and stunning visual examples from the author's own work, it aids in honing artistic skills.
Personal Expression: The content helps users capture the unique details of their lives in a sketch journal or as finished artwork, promoting personal artistic expression.
Author's Philosophy: Samantha Dion Baker, a full-time illustrator, emphasizes drawing from real life and finding peace and calm through daily artistic practice.
Practical Approach: The author advocates for drawing what is immediately present, suggesting this method helps overcome artist's block and fosters a deeper appreciation for everyday objects.

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Draw Your World: How to Sketch and Paint Your Remarkable Life

See the world around you in a whole new way with this inspiring guide to nature drawing, urban sketching, travel drawing, drawing from memory or photos, and sketch journaling.

In Draw Your World, Samantha Dion Baker gives you everything you need to begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one. She shares her favorite tools and materials, simple technical lessons such as composition, shadows and light, symmetry, and perspective, plus fun motivational exercises like drawing from memory, urban sketching, travel journaling, and experimental art. With helpful step-by-steps and stunning visual examples from Baker's own work, Draw Your World will help you hone your skills and capture the details of your unique and remarkable life in a sketch journal or as finished artwork.Samantha Dion Baker graduated from The Cooper Union in New York City and spent over 20 years working as a graphic designer. Now a full-time illustrator and artist, her favorite thing to do is wander the city streets and travel with her family, drawing all of the things she does, eats and sees on the pages of her sketch journal. Originally from Philadelphia, Samantha lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband and two boys. She is the author of Draw Your Day and Draw Your Day Sketchbook.Introduction

I draw every day for at least an hour. The practice is not a burden or a chore but a necessary part of my daily routine, like brushing my teeth or exercising. I guess you could call it a compulsion at this point. Though I feel a need, there is also a deep desire that makes my drawing time a place I go to find peace and calm. In other words, drawing is my meditation. The practice fully represents life in all its ups and downs—sometimes it's fabulous and I am so pleased, other times the work is awful and I think I should close up shop for the day and try again the next. The quality of the work I create is dependent on my mood, the amount of sleep I got the night before, the news, the energy my children emit in our home, the confidence felt after a morning run, the insecurities experienced after an awkward conversation with a client, or the hugs I have received from my husband and kids. These feelings come to the surface through my pencil and pen. The practice is a constant reminder that my world is not perfect, that I must work through all of the good and the bad, and that great things can happen as a result of perseverance—and making mistakes. I am also reminded that just like in real life, I can forgive and forget, I can deal with any difficulty, and I can make something ugly into something beautiful.

Throughout my career as an illustrator and artist—terms I have only allowed myself to embrace in the past five years—I have made a consistent and conscious effort to stay true to myself. My work is not perfect, it is not created on an iPad or in Photoshop, and it is not camera ready, so to speak. It is gritty and real—an interpretation of the world around me. I draw my world in my way—and I love to encourage others to do the same. I don't make up fantasies when I draw but rather I draw the people and things right in front of me. I find the challenge of translating something onto paper a literal everyday rite of passage.

Today it will be an apple; tomorrow, a building. The next day I will challenge myself a little more and draw my son. I'll drink water and coffee while I draw and then I'll draw that coffee and water. It's not so exciting when you think about it, is it? But on the bright side, when you draw what's right in front of you, there isn't any time for artist's block. In fact, I find it very rewarding to draw the same thing every day. And by doing so, each day I see that thing a littl
Baker, Samantha Dion
ISBN: 9781984858207

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Art, Music, and Photography

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2021-01-01T20:52:46Z

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