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The types of sketches used by artists vary depending on intent. Sketching involves the transformation of existing visual information or an idea to a two-dimensional surface, the paper. To do this effectively, you must know what you want to draw and how best to represent it.
1. Basic drawing skills, choosing the subject matter, basic steps, plan layout,
2. Environmental constructions, (basic approach to grid, frames, basic shapes & lines)
3. Environmental sketching in details; tone, texture, colour, shading, pattern, spacing, rotation, position etc.
4. Environmental sketching in a field; View section, trees, buildings, rocks, people, etc.
5. Sketching in a studio: Experimenting with styles, editing, digital editing, pencil rendering, digital rendering.
Observational Sketching:
Observational sketching is one of the most common ways to record the environment. The first rule is to draw what you see and not what you know or think you see. Sketching involves seeing not just looking. By not letting your knowledge of an environment muddle your observation skills. Consider observational drawing as as exploration, not mere documentation. As an artist you are making decisions about what to edit and include as part of the exploration process. You can use the process to emphasize aspects of clarifying the visual information.
Always think about what what you want your drawing to say. Ask yourself what you want the narrative of drawing to be ; that is what story you want it to convey. Creating visual information is one way of directing how something is to be read, or interpreted. In Art field, there are so many ways you can establish visual language.
Blind sketching: Blind sketching, an other type of observational drawing, captures an object or space without the artist being distracted by accuracy. In this type of drawing,the hand and eye communicate an image onto the paper without the hand construct the image. Your hand is not inhabited by the observations of your eyes trying to make the image 'correctly' This method of sketching allows you to concentrate on what you are seeing and helps to develop and strengthen the control of your hand in regard to what you want to depict.
This technique is good for how to move your hand according to what you see. It also improves intuitive spatial coordination when practised often.
Contour Sketching : The contour sketch is a single-line drawing that focuses on the outline of the form or figure. When we draw we should be attentive to the edge of the form and the quality of the line creating that edge.
There will be no tonal value added in contour sketching but by varying the thickness of the line can be express greater part of the object. The lead ( graphite) could be sharp or blunt, it could be soft grade (2B 3B, 4B) with dark lines and also good for crisp lines and crosshatching but not for tones.
In graphite, lines can accentuate accelerate, become thin and then become thick again. With each change, they indicate a subtlety in the form of the object represents roundness, a crisps edge,depth and thickness- all with a single line.
Design Sketching : Design sketches allow you to think on paper and draw what does not actually exist. The nature of the design sketch is one of exploration. It can take on any physical manifestation or display, including a variety of drawing types are both two and three dimensional. Design sketches can also be intermixed with text, photography, and other graphic images. Frequent sketching of existing objects hones your invented drawing skills.
