I did a couple of very cool things today, and I thought I’d share one of them now: I attended an Advanced Sketching workshop by Rick Simonson, sponsored by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. (The other cool thing was the last session of the Botanical Drawing workshop, and I’ll post about that separately).
This workshop was held over Zoom, and the focus was on making relatively quick sketches that contain all the necessary information to go back later and create a fully rendered illustration. This was great practice for me … I think of myself as a slow artist, which is kind of inconvenient when trying to field sketch birds and wildlife. Given the online format, today we were drawing from reference photos, and Rick encouraged us to sketch fast, focusing on shapes rather than detail, and to also play with compositions that were informed by the references, but adjusted the poses and POV. This got me out of the way I usually approach my artwork, and I’m really happy with what I produced during the workshop. I also took a bit of time his afternoon to render one of my sketches to its final form. Thanks so much to Rick and the GNSI for a genuinely useful event!
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