Quick Sketching as an Important Part of Creative Arts

Abstract

With the quick sketching being an important practical component of development of the future artists’ creativity, it is crucial to examine a dedicated workshop as an organizational form of learning the quicksketching. By the example of the O. Beliankyi’s (Prof. at the Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts andArchitecture) drawing workshops, the necessity to include the basics of academic drawing into the quick sketching has been proven. His classes emphasize on many significant elements of quick sketching: capturing artist’s personal impression of the object, the need to feel the object as a whole, to feel the form and know the laws of descriptive geometry. Two main modes of quick sketching have been studied: drawingfrom life and from memory. While drawing from life, it is critical to perceive the object as a uniform phenomenon, when its abstract, generalized image provides ideas and associations for quick sketching, accentuating very few emotional features of the object (rather than drawing a number of details). Duringthe workshop, young artists develop good hand motor skills, learn to plan their time, to choose the means and media for expressiveness and brevity, to concentrate and perform strokes in a conscious and deliberate way in order to convey their idea of the object. Drawing alongside the students allows the teacher to show the systematic and consistent nature of quick sketching: choosing the media, arranging the image on the sheet, capturing accurate body proportions, emphasizing its plasticity, working with tone, lightand shade.