The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing With A Tablet: Easy Techniques For Mastering Digital Drawing On Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing With A Tablet: Easy Techniques For Mastering Digital Drawing On Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)

In Drawing with a Tablet: Easy Techniques for Mastering Digital Drawing on Location, readers will learn step by step?ow to create amazing drawings while on the go. In the sixth volume of theUrban Sketching Handbook series, popular artist and workshop instructor Uma Kelkar shows sketchers how to take their digital drawing to the next level. Whether you are new to sketching or wish to try the latest technology, this useful guide shares?xpert tips and techniques for drawing on a tablet. With a focus on using the Procreate tool, but with information that is relevant to other digital platforms, you willstart with the basics, such as opening your file, choosing your resolution, determining your palette, and how to simplify your tools by creating a preferred set of brushes. The book also coversusing layers and groups of layers, and shows youhow to create a sketch from start to finish. Whether you are drawing at home, en plein air, on the go, or even at night, learn how to enliven your digital drawings and enhance your skills.umakelkar.com/book is awork-along website with video links for many of the artworks included in the book as well as newer examples.From the AuthorWhen there are tons of self help videos and manuals available freely, what would the aim of the this book be? I had to occupy the space a narrow and unique space between a manual for a tool and lesson on drawing/painting. That space is for enablers - those that lower the barrier to entry to new media like on-the-go digital drawing. Especially if you are an artist who has exposure to traditional tools, this book allows you to embrace digital drawing without feeling guilt of defection.About the AuthorUma Kelkar?as won multiple awards for her plein air and in studio watercolor paintings. Having taken part in multiple national and international juried shows, she has also exhibited professional solo shows. She is interested in sketching as a daily practice, digital illustration, and her work is also featured in books on urban sketching and portrait painting. Apart from her own practice, Uma curates shows and teaches locally, nationally, and internationally.?er key strength is bridging the gap between traditional and digital media and employing them both as situation demands.?hen Uma is not doing art on paper or an iPad, she designs chips for high speed communications in Silicon Valley.?he holds a Master's Degree in?lectrical?ngineering from Stanford University. The absence of formal art education frees her from norms and allows her to put her emotions on paper and be bold and exploratory in her approach.