Sketch Book for the Artist

INTRODUCTION

PEN-AND-INK BEE

This tiny drawing has been enlarged

to show its texture and composition.

It was made with a few bold strokes

of a steel pen dipped in ink to conjure

the dried bee I was holding between

my fingers on a pin.

PROGRESSION

There is a point in all our lives when we first control our insist they cannot draw, yet still turn to drawing when their

mark and make it a line, then drag our line into a loop, and verbal language fails or is inadequate. We do not hesitate to

from that first unit build and describe the shape of something draw a map, for example, to help a stranger see their way

or someone we know. Young children love to draw. Hours are When taking first steps in relearning how to draw, it is

lost immersed in the glorious world of imagination, and this important to value your natural abilities and ways of seeing,

activity plays a vital role in their development. But as however small and unformed you believe they are. As you

adolescents, most of us stop. Inhibitions creep in and ideas of progress, be proud of what makes your work individual to

good and bad terminate confidence. At this point many will you. Don't be persuaded to draw in a way someone else