Overall, it's a nice book with lots of ideas and quick tips on sketching. The last few pages are more interesting because they feature artist interviews and gallery of work and you can read about their thought process for their films and project. While there's attempt to refer to sketching techniques taught to animation but I felt there could be more examples or perhaps reference to more well known animated films or shorts. What I find lacking in the book is perhaps the connection between the sketching techniques and animation. There are also short assignments at the end of each chapters. The author Peter Parr has numerous examples that can give you insight on things and places to draw, and also learning points to take note of. The downside is there aren't a lot of specific instructions or rendering techniques so to pick up those skills you will have to explore books that are more in depth.Īnother highlight of the book is there are lots of ideas for drawing. What's good is you'll be able to know a wide variety of drawing principles involved to create a good piece of art.

There are tips and techniques being discussed but they are mostly written in the form of observations, or quotes from other artists. The subjects discussed are using shapes, perspective, drawing figures, landscapes, capturing movement, developing ideas, characters and layout and composition. The book looks at the overall view of sketching and how it's useful for animation. Sketching For Animation feels like an academic book to me, and it's priced like one too at USD $49.

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