Sketchbook – St Marylebone Art & Design

Just one or two Y8 books from last year, showing some of the curriculum in action. Abstract painting with mark-making, Textures exam unit, they made some terracotta clay shells and Textiles quilting….

Students often ask about using sketchbooks. They are not like Art Coursework books, where you might work through a project or journey… Instead they are small, carry around with you collections of drawings in which you might try and capture a person, a scene or object. The key is experimentation, different materials, and using lots of mark-making to capture something.

These are examples of our A’Level sketchbooks, they are small (often A5) and we really like their expressiveness..

and here are just a few:

The RA are setting daily doodle tasks, today’s is draw a lion…

#RAdailydoodle

National Portrait Gallery are also asking artists to do a self portrait and upload on to their twitter #hockneydrawings –

The letter yesterday has so many interesting sketchbook links and having the opportunity to draw is important…

Here’s another that I found on the internet…

Dear fantastic art students

We have found a number of rather interesting sketchbooks online, which might inspire you to explore different approaches to drawing. They are really worth looking at (once you’ve opened one, scroll/click through to see the pages) and I hope you feel inspired!

Exciting hand drawings –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/68746059/Hands?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Csketchbook

Dynamic colour pencil portraits –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/24516773/Sketchbook?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Cfine%20art%20sketchbook

Super cool inky and mixed media works –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/94215063/Memoria?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Cfine%20art%20sketchbook

Tonal, more ‘realistic’ portraits –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/38473731/Sofus-Portraits?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Cfine%20art%20sketchbook

Chunky felt-tip drawing –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/89526713/Sketchbook-2019?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Cfine%20art%20drawing%20sketchbook

Ruler-line geometric compositions –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/89256113/Tessometrics?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Cfine%20art%20drawing%20sketchbook

A series of paintings that were developed from sketches of the artist’s home environment –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/70412755/Solo-Exhibition-by-Sterling-Hundley-Familiar-Interval?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Cfine%20art%20drawing%20sketchbook

A beautiful sketchbook including drawings with overlapping lines and a cubist sense of shifting facets as people change position –
https://www.behance.net/gallery/74178335/Observational-Sketchbooks-Capturing-a-portrait-of-time?tracking_source=project_owner_other_projects

Year 12 and Y10 Textiles have been developing their drawing skills. Looking at different ways to make marks and working with drawings to develop designs.