Sketchbook Habits
Keeping Sketchbook Pages Flat and Unsmudged
How to keep sketchbook pages from smudging, buckling or sticking, whether you work in pencil, ink or a light wash.
Sketchbook Habits
Sketchbook Habits
Gesture Drawing at the Kitchen Table
How to practise short gesture drawings at home, using a timer and poses that change before detail can take over.
Sketchbook Habits
Sketchbook Habits That Quietly Stall Progress
Ordinary sketchbook habits that feel like practice and quietly stall progress, and the smaller habits to put in their place.
Sketchbook Habits
Reviewing a Month of Sketchbook Pages
How to review a month of sketchbook pages for repeated subjects, repeated faults and the notes you meant to use.
Sketchbook Habits
A Pocket Kit: Few Tools, Useful Pages
How a pocket sketch kit of a few tools produces more useful pages than a bag packed for every possible subject.
Sketchbook Habits
Drawing Hands from Life in Short Sittings
A practical way to draw hands from life in short sittings, using simple masses before fingers become the whole problem.
Sketchbook Habits
Labelling Sketchbook Pages So They Teach You
What to write beside a sketch so that a later page still tells you the light, the medium and the problem you were solving.
Sketchbook Habits
Copying a Master without Losing Your Own Eye
How to copy a painting as a way of studying decisions, and how to keep that copy from becoming a substitute for looking.
Sketchbook Habits
Thumbnails: Planning a Painting in Small Boxes
How a row of tiny thumbnail sketches lets you test composition and value before a larger painting begins.
Sketchbook Habits
A Colour-Note Sketchbook for Outdoor Light
How to keep a small outdoor sketchbook of colour notes, so changing light is recorded before a finished picture.
Sketchbook Habits
A Beginner's Checklist for Sketching on Location
What to pack, where to sit and how to approach your first outdoor sketch, with a simple checklist that keeps you comfortable and focused.
Sketchbook Habits
Blank Page Fear: Gentle Ways to Start a Sketchbook Page
Staring at an empty page? These practical, low-pressure prompts help you make the first mark and keep a sketchbook habit going.