Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth
Drawing and Observation 2
A course by Sarah van Dongen , Illustrator
Joined March 2020
About the video: Drawing and Observation 2
Overview
“The mark making exercise will help you to not focus too much on the result but rather to get to know the material you're working with and how your personal marks are. The next exercise consists of drawing lines, tones, and both combined. ”
In this video lesson Sarah van Dongen addresses the topic: Drawing and Observation 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth. Discover tools and techniques for developing your creative skills, overcoming creative blocks, and unlocking your imagination in the pages of your sketchbook .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Drawing and Observation Now, let's do the same with the ink brush. The last material I will use is the Tombow brush pen. Please try this yourself, and also try to make different marks from the ones I've made. If you want, you can fill pages and pages of your sketchbook with this. This is a simple exercise that will help you to not focus too much on the results and to just get starting. You can see it as a warming up. I would really advise you to keep coming back to this exercise with different materials. In the next exercise, we will look at line, tone, and the combination of the two. I t...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Exercises for Artistic Growth
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Sarah van Dongen
A course by Sarah van Dongen
Sarah van Dongen is a Dutch illustrator based in Amsterdam who is passionate about telling stories. She began her studies in comparative literature but enrolled in the MA in Children’s Books Illustration in Cambridge, UK after realizing she wanted to pursue a more creative career.
Sarah’s illustration work can be found in children’s books, stationery, newspapers, and magazines across the globe. Her clients include Flow Magazine, Adobe, Tiny Owl Publishing, and Ragged Bears Publishing, among others. Sarah enjoys exploring themes like gardens, food, social interactions, mental health, and her childhood. She doesn’t shy away from subjects like insecurity, loneliness, and loss, she expresses them in her sketches to help make these feelings more comprehensible.
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