The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching
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People who cannot draw well usually think that professional sketching is a complex and difficult process. However, with this book you will see that even the most complex sketches are just a structure of very simple, yet confidently drawn segments built on each other. It shows which features make drawings look professional and how you can implement those in your own sketches.
The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching - Extended Edition provides you with a very short course, which does not teach you all the details and techniques of sketching, as they are elaborately covered in our other sketching books, but will teach you in a very simple way how to make your sketches look beautiful.
George Hlavacs
With a Master’s degree, Industrial and Product Design from the Budapest University of technology and economics, George Hlavács is a lecturer of cognitive ergonomics at University Rotterdam and is Chief Research & Design at Delùsh Interior Fragrances.
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The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching - George Hlavacs
The Why of Sketching
Draw like a professional and you will be a professional.
Some people make rough, fast, nonchalant sketches and they look brilliant. For others, it takes hours of blood, sweat and tears to produce drawings that are accurate yet still look unprofessional. The question is why?
As a lecturer in cognitive ergonomics at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, I consider human reactions to visual information, and I also teach sketching. So I thought that if I could analyze and describe how our mind reacts to different aspects of handmade sketches, I would be able to teach drawing skills much more easily.
Sometimes I meet an ‘old school’ teacher of sketching whose main aim is to teach people to draw accurately. I am convinced that this traditional way of learning to draw is fundamentally wrong, because even if people learn to draw accurately, their drawings do not convince. That frustrates people and makes them avoid drawing altogether instead of practising their craft. Fear and uncertainty is then visible in all their work, and they fail to improve.
Salvador Dalí, the famous Spanish painter, once said: If you act like a genius you will be a genius!
This is especially true when it comes to sketching.
I believe that you must first learn how to make your drawings look like they are the work of a professional and leave the matter of accuracy for later. If you do so, then all your drawings will look professional, whether they are accurate or not. You will achieve much