Sketch Your World

By James Hobbs,

Book cover of Sketch Your World: Essential Techniques for Drawing on Location

Book description

Discover the Joy of Working on Location!

Breathe the air and hear the sounds, and experience the freshness and energy that working on location brings to your work...a quality that says "I was here." And transports your viewer there, too.

In Sketch Your World, top artists take you back to…

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This is another book I got early on in my sketching career. I love James Hobbs's sketching style. He uses a thick black pen for the most part, and his style is simple–the perfect inspiration for a beginner.

He also includes examples of many other sketchers’ work–all of which emphasise that you do not need to have perfect drawing skills to capture the world around you. As someone who did not do very well in art at school myself, I found this book to be my permission slip to draw anyway.

I learned from this book that drawing is a…

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