{"id":5108,"date":"2019-11-20T17:59:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littleviews.com\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2019-12-12T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:01:50","slug":"action-sketching-prepare-for-fast-and-really-good-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littleviews.com\/action-sketching-prepare-for-fast-and-really-good-sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Sketching: Prepare for fast and really good sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sketching to achieve your objectives is a skill you need to develop, much like playing effective soccer.\u00a0Contrary to many myths, however, it does not require hours of study to produce illustrations that are appreciated by your mates.<\/div>\n
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Over time,\u00a0great artists whose works appear in museums, used\u00a0“tricks of the trade,”\u00a0some of which I’ll show you in this series.\u00a0They certainly did not struggle to achieve pleasing illustrations, nor did they argue about what right or wrong methods to use when drawing!<\/div>\n
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My objective, then, is to show you how you can integrate action sketching into your passions with soccer\u00a0and be proud of your work.<\/div>\n
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In recent blogs, I’ve showed you how to use\u00a0aids, such as a dynamic soccer photograph and an inexpensive, lifelike manikin, both of which can be traced.\n<\/div>\n
Unfortunately, people who rely exclusively on tracing produce work that looks like what you see below, which is similar to what’s seen in\u00a0training materials.<\/div>\n
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A plain trace can be informative and it certainly does help the sketcher master proportions, but it is not dynamic. Soccer, of course, is dynamic.<\/div>\n
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In my last blog<\/a>, I showed you how to pose a manikin similar to what you see in a still image, in this case of\u00a0soccer player Collin Martin.<\/div>\n
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After the manikin is posed, it can be viewed from many angles, all hidden\u00a0within a single action shot. The manikin below, for example, is the one posed like the photographic reference, but seen from the front.<\/div>\n
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While\u00a0I can draw without tracing, I cannot imagine all the different angles that take place during a split second of fast action. By lightly tracing the above manikin photo onto printer paper with an inexpensive BIC mechanical pencil,\u00a0then embellishing the drawing with clothing, convincing action can be created similar to reality, but entirely based on imagination.<\/div>\n
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I’ll discuss different sketching techniques in the future, but rest assured, even if you do not have drawing skills, by using “tricks of the trade,” you can quickly and easily learn how to draw like this, much to the delight of your teammates and others.<\/div>\n

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