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    Sketch like a Boss!
    Sketch like a Boss!
    Sketch like a Boss!
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    Sketch like a Boss!

    By Shirish Deshpande

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    A Pen is mightier than a Sword!

    Now discover the true power of a pen in this amazing guide to sketching like a boss.

    This one-of-a-kind exercise book will set all your sketching fears to rest and guide you step-by-step in drawing the most awesome illustrations.

    Come join Shirish on this amazing journey of discovery.

    What will you learn?
    -- The concepts of shadows and highlights.
    -- Shading techniques using pens.
    -- Various 'texture hacks' for drawing objects like glass, stones, bricks, wood
    -- Drawing human figures in the landscape.
    -- Basic perspective concepts.

    And that's not all.

    You will learn to implement all these techniques hands-on in twenty amazing step-by-step demonstrations, spanning subjects of various levels of difficulty ranging from simple to complex.

    Simple subjects:
    -- A Football
    -- An Ice Cream Cone
    -- A Plain Candle and a Half-Melted Candle
    -- A Leaf
    -- A Fruit
    -- A Mineral Water Bottle

    Medium subjects:
    -- An Old Wooden Door
    -- A Truck
    -- The Stairs
    -- A Shopfront
    -- An Abandoned Car
    -- A Small Boat
    -- A Banyan Tree Trunk
    -- A Shrine

    Complex subjects:
    -- An Old Victorian Building
    -- A Small Temple at the Crossroads
    -- An Old Stone Building Converted into an Office
    -- An Old Telephone
    -- A Church
    -- A House in Hawaii

    Let's get sketching like a Boss!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShirish D
    Release dateJun 25, 2019
    ISBN9789353618612
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      Book preview

      Sketch like a Boss! - Shirish Deshpande

      SKETCH LIKE A BOSS!

      From Novice to a Boss Illustrator

      in Twenty Easy Steps

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      Copyright ©2019 by Shirish Deshpande

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      All artworks presented in this book are copyright of the artist, regardless of whether they bear the artist’s signature or not.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      INTRODUCTION

      Who Is This Book For?

      What Is This Book About?

      Repetition of Instructions

      The Fear of Making Mistakes

      Some 'Ground Rules' While Reading This Book

      The Focus Area of This Book

      PART 1 - MATERIALS AND BASIC SHADING TECHNIQUES: Materials

      Free Resource – Pen and Ink Shading Materials guide

      Basic Shading Techniques

      Shading Technique #1: Hatching

      Shading Technique #2: Cross-Hatching

      Shading Technique #3: Contour Shading

      Shading Technique #4: Stippling

      Shading Technique #5: Random (Scribbling)

      Free Resource – Pen Shading Techniques ‘Cheat Sheet’

      PART 2 – SHADOWS, TEXTURE HACKS, HUMAN FIGURES AND PERSPECTIVE: Shadows (and Highlights)

      Textures Hacks

      Wood

      Brick Walls

      Stone Walls

      Glass

      Human Figures (In Landscape Illustrations)

      Perspective

      One-Point Perspective:

      Two-Point Perspective:

      PART 3 - SIMPLE EXERCISES

      A Football

      An Ice Cream Cone

      A Plain Candle and a Half-Melted Candle

      A Piece of Fruit

      A Bottle of Mineral Water

      A Leaf

      PART 4 - MEDIUM COMPLEXITY EXERCISES

      An Old Wooden Door

      Some Rustic Stairs

      A Small Boat

      A Banyan Tree Trunk

      A Shrine

      A Shopfront

      A Truck

      An Abandoned Car

      PART 5 - COMPLEX EXERCISES: A House in Hawaii

      An Old Victorian Building

      An Old Telephone

      A Church

      An Old Stone Building Converted into an Office

      A Small Temple at the Crossroads

      THE NEXT STEPS

      Ready for Some Color?

      Ready for Some Perspective?

      FREE VIDEO TRAINING

      The Twin Trees – Pen Shading Techniques

      BEFORE WE PART...

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      GRATITUDE

      ENJOYED ‘SKETCH LIKE A BOSS!’?

      INTRODUCTION

      Who Is This Book For?

      The focus of this book is on pen drawing.

      Are you interested in learning pen drawing hands-on, from simple to complex subjects? Then this book is for you.

      Have you sketched using ballpoint pens/gel pens/technical pens before and want to explore further possibilities? Then this book is for you.

      Have you never drawn using pens before and would like to learn this wonderful medium? Then this book is for you.

      Do you draw in other mediums, and find pen drawing to be a daunting and unforgiving medium?

      Then this book is definitely for you.

      What Is This Book About?

      Pen drawing is a unique art form. It’s super convenient, requires minimum materials (at least for starting up) and is anytime-anywhere.

      One doesn’t need to prepare a lot before starting a pen illustration. A paper and a pen are enough to start. One doesn’t need a lot of space for doing a pen illustration, and there’s no or minimum cleanup after the illustration is done.

      This book will hold your hand (metaphorically, of course) and guide you through the process of drawing.

      The book is arranged into five parts.

      Part 1 is all about basics. It will cover the materials required and basic shading techniques.

      If you are familiar with pen shading techniques, or if you have already read my previous book ‘Get-Set-Illustration! Secrets of Pen and Ink Drawing Unleashed!’, you may directly skip to Part 2.

      Alternatively, you can download (for free) a handy PDF of Materials for Pen and Ink Drawing from here:

      https://HuesAndTones.net/materials

      Additionally, you may subscribe to my newsletter from the following link and get the Materials PDF AND a printable PDF of my adult coloring book Dystopian Encounters from here:

      https://HuesAndTones.net/signup

      I keep updating this list of materials periodically as I learn and try out new materials. If you are subscribed to my mailing list, I will send you the latest copy of the Materials PDF as and when it’s updated.

      I also periodically send tips and tricks about sketching and painting, discount codes and the information about the latest releases to my email subscribers (without spamming them!).

      Part 2 will introduce you to the concepts of light and shadows, as well as textures. We will deal with only monochrome illustrations in this book. So, understanding shadows is especially important. We do not have the assistance of colors to differentiate between various objects and have only the tool of contrast at our disposal to do so.

      Depicting textures is where the true power of pen illustrations comes into play. After learning to create textures, I promise you will never look at the world around you in the same way you do now! We will learn to create textures in the actual demonstrations. But in Part 2, I will show you some hacks that I frequently employ to quickly bring about textures. We will also look at two basic perspective concepts and some hacks to insert human figures quickly into our landscape sketches.

      Parts 3, 4 and 5 will guide you in drawing various types of illustrations using pens, step-by-step. We will start with simple illustrations, and gently move towards more complex subjects.

      Repetition of Instructions

      Within Parts 3 to 5, you will find many pen drawing demonstrations. While reading these demonstrations, you are bound to feel that some of the instructions are repeated.

      This is by design.

      The book is designed with readers of all skill levels in mind. I totally understand that if you find an exercise too trivial for your skill level, you may want to directly jump to a more challenging exercise. Alternatively, you may want to start with a subject which interests you the most.

      To allow this free ‘jumping around’ for the readers, I have repeated several instructions in all the exercises. This will make sure that you can enjoy each demonstration as a stand-alone exercise.

      The final illustrations, rough drawings and original reference photographs (if any) are shared on the following web page:

      https://huesandtones.net/slabreferences/

      Feel free to download these references and use the rough drawings to trace over while starting out with the illustrations.

      The Fear of Making Mistakes

      When I ask my students what is the #1 reason why they hesitate to start pen drawing, do you know what they answer?

      It’s the fear of making mistakes.

      Almost everyone starting out with pen drawing is of the opinion that correcting any mistakes is impossible.

      Nothing can be further from the truth!

      When you see a finished pen illustration like this…

      …it’s only natural to think that every pen stroke in the illustration was drawn with a sure hand, and any mistake would have instantly ruined the illustration.

      But you will be glad to know,

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