The knack of sketching is an art book written by Bert dodson. This book contains 55 specific tips to improve painting ability, 48 self-help courses to help master skills, and 8 self-evaluation lists to evaluate your progress and take readers to re-understand visual art.

The book will introduce some useful concepts: for example, what is overlapping pen, fusion, mapping and exaggeration; What is free gesture, how to control gesture and how to use it; What is light and shadow effect, depth effect and brush stroke effect, and how to show them; What is "creative painting" and how to use it to stimulate imagination.

Book content

The trick of sketching tells zero-based readers the direction of learning painting from sketching, sketching and sketching. Practice the ability to observe the world and hand-eye coordination. Even if you want to learn comics, you'd better have a sketch basis, because the materials in comics are exaggerated, distorted and combined from objects in life.

You need some skills and tools when sketching. For example, the skills include visual observation (the trick of sketching, chapter 3) and perspective drawing (the trick of sketching, chapter 5), which can be learned from books and are not difficult for readers of junior high school geometry foundation. Tools can be made by yourself, such as viewfinder (dig a box in the middle of the cardboard, and the aspect ratio of the box is equal to the aspect ratio of the painting).