The Importance of Sketchbooks and Drafts

It's important for idea development recording and practice.




 Draw something that's interesting or meaningful to you. It will help you have the patience to follow through with iterations and a final piece. Here's an interesting time lapse to show how the final drawing could go. Notice the light contour drawing underneath, mapping out the drawing:

 

There are different ways to get that lightly drawn plan that you see in the drawing of the tiger. If you have a direct reference (real life observation or photo) you can draw out the contours of the shapes of similar values, like here:



For further steps on value drawing:


Here's an interesting look at another artist's steps in a progression (different purpose/technique):




Sketchbook studies of textures can help you work out a pattern before you draw the final:


https://youtu.be/RdmcMBWOP60
https://youtu.be/smAJFoedfvE

Perspective trick:
https://www.facebook.com/Decpohchang/videos/1253136111404357/

Effective Practice: https://www.facebook.com/TEDEducation/videos/1489398127740055/

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