Sketching


The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World
The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking
The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location
Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color
An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
Sketching People: An Urban Sketcher's Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers
Everyday Matters
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
Artist's Sketchbook: Exercises and Techniques for Sketching on the Spot
Sketch!: The Non-Artist's Guide to Inspiration, Technique, and Drawing Daily Life
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith HoldenDraw Your Day by Samantha Dion BakerSecrets of a Devon Wood by Jo BrownHow to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri SmithKeeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie
Creative journalling
199 books — 22 voters
The Art of Innovation by Tom KelleyInsight Out by Tina SeeligChange by Design by Tim    BrownDesign Thinking by Nigel CrossCreative Confidence by Tom Kelley
Stanford d.school Reading List
16 books — 1 voter

Tattle Tales by Brandy IsadoraFramed Ink by Marcos Mateu-MestreFramed Perspective Vol. 1 by Marcos Mateu-MestreColor and Light by James GurneyPerspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling
Best Books For Self-Taught Artists
29 books — 2 voters
The Art of Startup Fundraising by Alejandro CremadesNever Go with Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyCross Winds by Steven  MyersCars, Coffee, and a Badass Ninja Toilet by K.C. HiltonBusiness Doctors by Sameer Kamat
Storytelling for Entrepreneurship
21 books — 34 voters

Barbara O'Neal
From my bag, I took out a Moleskine notebook and a pen that I always carried for essay ideas and made notes on the setting. The clothes and attitudes of the passersby, the kind of shops that populated the hallways, the cakes in the case, so different from what I'd see at Starbucks in the US- these heavier slices, richer and smaller, along with an array of little tarts. I sketched them, finding my lines ragged and unsure at first. Then as I let go a bit, the contours took on more confidence. My p ...more
Barbara O'Neal, The Art of Inheriting Secrets

Bill Buxton
Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.
Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

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