My New Favourite Urban Sketching Book ~ Everyday Sketching and Drawing by Steven Reddy ~ Review
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2022
- In this video I review the unbelievably helpful and inspiring book "Everyday Sketching and Drawing" by Steven Reddy, an urban sketcher based in Seattle, USA. I flip through the book which shows off his amazingly detailed sketches, as well as offering lots of inspiration and a full breakdown of his unique sketching process so anyone can have a go.
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THE BOOK
Everyday Sketching and Drawing by Steven Reddy
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STEVEN REDDY'S SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS
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Steven ships these to you himself.
STEVEN REDDY'S CRAFTSY COURSES
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1. Dynamic Detail in Pen, Ink & Watercolor
2. Sketching Interiors: Structure, Detail & Play
Both classes available to stream and on DVD.
Use code AFFILIATE25 for 25% off all classes (not including DVDs).
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I picked up this book. And I think it is awesome. Hope to learn from it.
Excellent, yes it’s very good. He’s been sketching for decades though so it’ll take a while to achieve what he does!
I’m considering getting it. His class looks really interesting :) wish I could do his technique with a brush pen… I have tried India ink on a water brush and they tend to clog it… I might try it with waterproof fountain pen ink… ❤thanks for the review
Glad you found it helpful. I think brushes should be okay if it’s very watered down ink like he uses. Brush pens do work to an extent but the result is a bit different. That’s the direction I went in using Faber Castell india ink markers (pitt artist brush pens). Cheers.
Looks good, thanks!
You’re very welcome 🙂
Thanks!
You’re very welcome 🙂
Purchased on your recommendation. 😁
Great, hope you enjoy it.
Great style and book, great review, thank You! The book and the Steve Reddy course costs about the same, if you had to pick, which one to buy? I guess the course contains everything that the book covers, but I might be totally wrong.
I think they’re both worth getting if you like his style, they complement each other very well. He has two courses on Craftsy, and there are other urban sketching courses on there too, so if you’d watch those it’d probably be cheaper to subscribe monthly then cancel when you’re done. If you want to buy Steven’s courses to keep, they have different sales on pretty much every week with large discounts. Anyway, I got the book and both courses, it’s worth it if you’re looking to learn this solid line style, I was already sketching this way before I discovered him but I still learned a lot, he’s a very good teacher.
@@UrbanSketchy I am a solid-line fan, sure, that's why I love your style tremendously, hence I love Steven Reddy's too. Thank You so much for the support.
You’re very welcome, happy to help anytime 🙂
@@UrbanSketchy I went ahead and watched the course, and I loved it extremelly. His process is well defined, the entire course is meaningful only when you decide to follow his process, otherwise it was just waste of money and time. Nevertheless, definitely, I will follow his process in the forthcoming weeks to see, how it works for me. I am inherently a bold-line sketcher and a big fan of Derwent Graphitint paint and pencils. Actually, his three-layer/three-step grisaille process basically prepares the surface for "graphitint" effect, that's why, all his watercolor automatically turns into a toned down color, a graphitint. Brutally excellent, exactly this is the look, I am after, and that is why I love Graphitint.
Here are my questions to You, Donald: Are you using his grisaille and watercolor process exactly step-by-step? Would it be reasonable to use Faber-Castell Pitt (or similar) grey brush pens instead of the India Ink solution that Steven is using? Practically he paints with this ink almost the entire surface of his pictures, he leaves out only the highlights. That is, he uses a lot of grey paint/ink.
Glad you enjoyed it. Personally I look at courses like this as a place for inspiration and ideas that I might be able to incorporate into my own method, so I always find there’s value in doing them. No I don’t use his inking method, the brush pens I use can be layered in a similar sort of way because they’re also India ink, but you wouldn’t get the same result. You already seem to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve which is great. Good luck!
Steven also regularly posts on facebook.
Hi Paula. Good to know in case others want to look him up. Cheers!
Why are people who have found their passions in life and actually do them just because they love them, called “obsessed”?! It has such a negative stigma attached to the word like there’s just something not right about that. “Passionate” or “driven” would be better words as there’s nothing bad about seeing through something you love and being able to do it every chance you get even if the rest of the world doesn’t get it like you do!
Hi, that’s interesting, I was thinking of obsessed in a positive sense, much like driven or passionate, but yes I see where you’re coming from. I love Steven’s work so hopefully the tone of the video is very positive, that’s the way it was intended. Thanks for watching and for your thoughts 🙂