Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers an easy-to-follow 5-step formula which teaches
beginner-friendly techniques for learning the skills necessary to make drawing and sketching an
everyday habit. For those who have always wanted to or tried and failed to learn to draw it
provides simple step-by-step instruction plus easy-to-follow practice exercises and provides
the motivation and inspiration readers need to be successful. For those who already draw
Everyday Sketching and Drawing offers another technique to add to their drawing arsenal. Why
do so many adults come to view drawing as difficult or fraught with anxiety? Traditional art
instruction is often bogged down with jargon rules and admonishments that unintentionally
stifle the joy of drawing for its own sake. Steven Reddy's new and easy approach to drawing
instructs sketchers to document their unique and compelling lives in realistic yet playful
sketches that record the places spaces and objects that help define them as individuals. He
reminds artists to slow down notice and attend to the sketch-worthy scenes and subjects that
are unstaged and always there in our everyday lives. He offers a versatile technique that can
lead to a skill that fills sketchbooks with the visual details that differentiate one life from
another. This approach is a meditative relaxing alternative to academic concerns about
perspective proportion and accuracy. Reddy encourages artists to capture in whimsical but
detail-specific illustrations their unique subjective interpretation of their visual
surroundings. Steven Reddy's drawing method produces extremely detailed and realistic scenes
of objects and scenes in everyday life in a relatively short period of time (60 minutes to 3
hours or more depending on the sketcher's preference). Modifying a technique utilized by Old
Master oil painters the drawings pass through 5 clearly articulated stages where each step
focuses on one visual concept at a time.
