3.1 Warm Up to Sketching

a sketching exercise you can always learn from

This simple exercise will help loosen up your approach to sketching, heighten your observational skills and provide a positive place to practice critique skills. This is not a how-to-draw exercise, though it may result in improved drawing skills. This is a practice you can always learn from, which can help keep your sketching skills flexible. You can think of this as a warm up, analogous to stretching before running.

Materials

• paper

• pencil

• a good flat surface

• a comfortable place to sit

• a story teller

• a story

• at least one person to act as the drawer (several are even better)

An Exercise in Line Quality

This exercise is a variation on Paul Klee’s discussion ...

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