Playing with sketches: 50 creative exercises for designers and artists

Introduction

Anatomy of your tools

Drawing calisthenics: 50 exercises.

1. Back to basics / materials, shapes, and patterns. Parallel lines

Random textures

Frottage (Rubbings)

Dry brush

Fumage (Smoke drawing)

Étrécissement (Reductive drawing with erasure)

Étrécissement (Reductive drawing with paper)

Collage (Additive drawing)

Entropic graphomania

Tracings

Doodling and mini drawings

Sticky notes quilt

Make a pattern

2. Applying the basics / materials, shapes, and patterns. Make some marks

Bundled tools

Found objects

Nondominant hand

Character silhouettes

Image harvesting

- Draw on your walk home

Collaborative patterning

Cubomania

Möbius strip drawing

Draw a process

Diagram an object

3. Setting goals. Five-minute drawings

One, day, one theme

Map your day

Cultivating your culture

100 monsters

365 days of drawings

4. Conceptual basics / words and letters. Construct/deconstruct (Letter)

Blind drawing (Word)

Channeling Matisse (Text)

5. Conceptual applications / words and letters. Digital collage (Letter/Word/Text)

Letter as object

Word chain

Word stacks

Ludicrous lists

Everyday lists

Dream résumé

6. Sketchbooks/ Challenge yourself and collaborating with others. Sketch share

Collaborative sketchbook

Used book sketchbook

Alphabet-a-week sketchbook

Nature's alphabet

Sketching covers

Sketching from the masters

Sketching from film

Giving back.