3.3 Sketching Vocabulary
drawing objects, people, and their activities
Many of your sketches will contain quite similar things – a sketching vocabulary of shapes. This sketching vocabulary serves as the basic elements of most sketches. If you practice creating this vocabulary, you will be able to rapidly compose your sketches. This chapter reviews several elements in the basic sketching vocabulary: objects, people, activities, emotions, and posture.
1. Basic Sketch Elements
Lines, rectangles, triangles, and circles will be essential visual elements of many of your sketches. Sketching and drawing tutorials often begin with ‘warming up’ exercises of filling a page with a random collection of these basic shapes. Become familiar with this variety ...
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