Sketch A Day

Sketch Every Damn Day

Level up your drawing skills with this groundbreaking weekly guidebook! When it comes to improving your drawings nothing beats consistent practice. Committing to sketching a little bit every day will go a long way to getting closer to being the best illustrator, artist, or designer you can be. In this book, popular YouTube teacher Spencer Nugent gives simple lessons and prompts explaining how to draw complex objects as well as basic fundamentals and practice exercises to keep skills sharp, including:

Mastering Perspective - Exercises to develop perspective drawing abilities from beginner to advanced

Form Building - Step-by-step demonstrations on building complex forms

Line Quality - Demos that emphasize different line types and how to use them

Color/Materials/Texture - Applying materiality and realistic texture to objects

Presentation - How to add backgrounds, notes, context to sketches

With over 20 years of drawing and teaching experience, Spencer breaks things down into simple step-by-step demonstrations so that beginners and advanced artists will find tips and tricks that will improve their work.

Draw People Every Day

A lively, colorful figure drawing instruction book that encourages aspiring illustrators to work in ink and watercolor to create quick, confident renderings of diverse, contemporary people. While today's illustrators work primarily in ink and watercolor, figure drawing instruction still tends to emphasize work in pencil. Commercial illustrator Kagan McLeod offers an approach to figure and portrait drawing more in keeping with today's preferred tools and techniques, one that focuses on cultivating spontaneity, energy, and confidence by providing exercises for brush work in ink and watercolor. By breaking figure and portrait drawing into the three major aspects of line, tone, and color and recommending time limits for each exercise, McLeod encourages working fast and fearless, rather than worrying about getting your figures just right. Filled with numerous illustrative examples of diverse, modern people, Draw People Every Day reflects practical, applicable techniques to get you drawing the people you see in the world around you with speed and proficiency.