Download 5-Minute Sketching -- Landscapes: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings, by Virginia Hein

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Review

I highly recommend this delightful resource of ideas and tips for almost any kind of on-location sketching from one of my favorite artists. (Tina Koyama Urban Sketchers 2017-12-19)An insightful book that's worth the money. Highly recommended to anyone who loves to draw. (Teoh Yi Chie Parka Blogs 2017-11-11)

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About the Author

Virginia Hein was born in Los Angeles, California, and the landscape of the city is her favorite subject. She received her MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach and has worked as a concept and character designer, illustrator and fine artist. She now teaches drawing at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and also teaches location sketching workshops. She has been a member of Urban Sketchers since 2009, and is a correspondent for the highly popular Urban Sketchers blog. She has taught workshops at three international Urban Sketchers Symposiums, in Barcelona, Singapore and Chicago. She has contributed her work to a number of books about location sketching. Blog: worksinprogress-location.blogspot.com

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Product details

Series: 5-Minute

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: Firefly Books (September 29, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1770859187

ISBN-13: 978-1770859180

Product Dimensions:

6.8 x 0.4 x 8.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.9 out of 5 stars

15 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#246,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I have a large library of painting, drawing and sketching books. Unfortunately, like so many books especially Walter Foster books, this one tries to touch on almost everything a trained artist should know, but in such little detail, and it is not really geared to 5-Minute Sketching. There are nice examples of sketched and pen and wash work, though. The book is more like 5-Minute art concepts to think about using in your landscape sketching...sketching that would take you way more than 5 minutes.Examples of what I'm saying: the pages on perspective and the horizon line do not show any horizon lines. It would have been easy to draw on top of the examples to show readers what horizon lines are. There is also no mention of the different kinds of perspective. The pages on measuring with your eye does not stress the importance of locking your arm to get consistent measurements, and the photos to do not show it, but rather just a hand... or how to convert your measurements to scale up or down from what you see out there to scale to your paper or canvas. My point is that so many topics are touched on lightly as to possibly not be as helpful as they should for a beginner.I was hoping for strategies on how to start a five minute sketch and how to think about what I can accomplish in that amount of time. I had a teacher once who actually made little folded paper books that touched on this topic and she advocated just a lot of rough outlines of buildings and minimizing shapes and almost no detail; only the essence of the scene. I was looking more for this kind of advice.The book is inspirational, though. I want to like it and will keep going over it. I hope others get more out of it.

Great little sketching book! Lots of inspiration and tips for sketching landscapes on the go. I have 2 books in this series, and they were both worth the purchase price.

A good book with excellent examples & ideas.I paint professionally and still found it useful. I like the whole series!

Fantastic book for just diving into landscape sketching and not worrying about perfection or getting every detail. I rarely sketched landscapes before and needed a little direction and confidence to start and this book did that. It breaks down the elements of landscape sketching into simply tips that are very useful.

I don't know about the 5 minutes claim but the book itself is well worth the purchase. Have really enjoyed learning from this well illustrated book.

Some of the suggestions were obvious with regards to scheduling but for the most part all this information could’ve been gotten online for free. Same with the similar book for buildings. It took up space in my suitcase and it wasn’t a necessity

I do not sketch or draw, but I was fascinated by the sketches Ms. Hein does and wanted to read ore about her artistic thinking. I read this is one sitting,loved it, read it again the next day. It inspired me so much in my professional work and and my non drawing artwork. I can't thank her enough for this book. I have reccomended it to several others.

When I think of Virginia Hein’s work, two things come to mind: light and composition. She is a master of both, and when I heard she had a new book on landscape sketching, I was thrilled to be able to learn her techniques.5-Minute Sketching – Landscapes: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings is the latest in Firefly Books’ series on drawing from life that focuses on speed. (Other books in the series that I’ve enjoyed are on architecture, people, and animals, by Liz Steel, Pete Scully, and Gary Geraths, respectively.)Although the term “urban sketching” appears nowhere in the description, all of the principles and techniques covered by Virginia’s book could apply to any type of on-location landscape sketching – urban or rural, desert or tropical, land or sea. Almost all of the sketch example contributors are familiar to me from the Urban Sketchers community, including Shari Blaukopf, Laura Frankstone, Don Low, Shiho Nakaza, Melanie Reim and Pat Southern-Pearce, to name just a few. And of course, Virginia herself, a Los Angeles resident, Urban Sketchers symposium instructor and USk correspondent, contributes many of her own urban and other landscape sketches to the book.Divided into four main sections, the book begins with an overview of composition, perspective and observation in See the Big Picture. I was particularly interested in topics on seeing large shapes, emphasizing the light, and learning to simplify a complex scene by identifying a strong focal point – all strategies that I see Virginia employing so well in her work.Drilling down further, the second chapter covers specific strategies and techniques for sketching on location, including an exploration of various tools, materials and support formats. Because I know Virginia works frequently in watercolor, I expected the book to have a heavy emphasis on that medium, but I was happily surprised to find that it takes much more of a mixed media approach. For quick sketches, she advises working on a small scale, not only because small sketches are faster, but also because it encourages more exploration and playing without the fear of wasting materials.Chapter 3 focuses on specific elements we encounter in most landscapes such as trees, sky, water and foliage. In this section, I especially appreciate Virginia’s emphasis on observing these elements closely so that they never appear generic. For example, many trees in a particular terrain may look similar, but drawing them requires seeing each tree as a unique individual and capturing its personality. At the same time, she gives ideas on how to see and evoke large masses of foliage so that we don’t attempt to draw each leaf. Finding this balance between the specific and the general is a key to sketching a landscape quickly and yet accurately capturing its essence.The last section, Take it Further, offers fun and creative ideas for using improvised materials (coffee, anyone?) and unconventional formats and breaking out of habitual ruts. As an intrepid urban sketcher, Virginia encourages telling stories by creating montages of small sketches, developing a sequence, or simply writing notes directly on the sketchbook page. She urges spontaneity and being open to whatever the moment offers. For example, if birds or a blimp appear suddenly in the sky, put them into the sketch!Overall, I highly recommend this delightful resource of ideas and tips for almost any kind of on-location sketching from one of my favorite artists.What I’m going to say next is not at all a criticism of Virginia’s book, but it’s related to the whole series. While I enjoy the subject matter and material covered in the 5-Minute Sketching series, I’m not sure the material is always served well by the “super-quick” approach the publisher has taken. Throughout each book in the series, the format is consistent: Each topic gets a page of five “tips to get you started,” and on the facing page are small sketch examples from the author and contributors. While many topics can be covered with this approach, others might require more explanation or more than five tips, but the author is constrained by the rigid format. It would be nice if the format allowed showing some of the examples at full size, for example (only the chapter introductions include large images), instead of tiny reductions, or more than one paragraph per tip. Instead of “5-minute sketching,” maybe the series should be called “5-minute reading,” as the books are written so that it’s easy to grasp a single concept by reading the tips and scanning the images next to them. But learning how to sketch in five minutes probably takes more than a quick read.

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