42 In Further Praise of Quick Sketching
The last handout (Chapter 41) brought you some extremely skillful quick sketches of Oby, the yellow Labrador pup. It was a thrill for me to prowl around behind the artists while they sketched and to watch those sketches take form.
Quick sketching is beneficial because it bypasses the temptation to analyze or copy — there is only time to get “that visual sensation, ” and hastening it onto the paper. You will find that quick sketches retain the vigor and spirit of the impression you get more than longer poses where you have time to copy or duplicate photographically what is before you. There’s a big difference between copying and caricaturing. This is not to say that you shouldn’t study anatomy and drapery ...
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