Speaker: Colin - UK
Colin - UK: The reason I enjoy it so much is that Phil introduces several different techniques on the same medium or the same subject. And the subjects are varied... ...they're interesting. Obviously, some you like, some you don't and I've sometimes had several goes at the same thing... ...to use the different techniques that he's been, showing us. It's always challenging. It's very well explained, it's very well set out. There's a resource list - - thoroughly enjoy it!
Colin - UK: Here are some of my favourite pieces of work that I've done during Sketch Awesome. This one I particularly liked, it was very free style. Boots are so evocative of life. I love doing portraits - now! I have learned a huge amount. This one was fantastic because, you don't take your pen off the page and do the whole thing. It was quite astonishing how well it turned out - to me anyway! And the final one when I can find it. That I found was particularly effective, starting with a blank sheet of paper, making it the colour you want and then doing the sketch in a complementary tone or colour. And then finally, for the free project that I did at the end of this first half. I actually did some self portraits, using different techniques of charcoal, pen and wash, water-soluble, and so on. Again, thoroughly enjoyable.
Colin - UK: Another good thing is that you can go at your own pace, so that, like me, I started right at the beginning when Sketch Awesome was released. But I'm now only, I think, I'm probably twenty or thirty lessons behind, but it doesn't matter because literally, as Phil said, you can pick it up, put it down, whenever you want. I think that... ...the third thing is that I've always liked sketching and drawing. As an engineer obviously, technical drawings were my livelihood but I'd always wanted to put in something of my own personality into sketching. And what I'm finding is that what's helped me so much is I've been exposed to lots of different subjects and lots of different ways of doing it, but this has given me the opportunity to find what I like, what I think I like, or the direction I think I'd like to take my art, which has been something that I've been struggling with for some time, quite frankly, but this is really giving me some real direction. Not because Phil's saying go this way, or go that way... You have to find these things out yourself, but that's what the Course is allowing me to do and it's thoroughly enjoyable!
Colin - UK: I would definitely recommend Sketch Awesome. I think because having a challenge each week, or each time that you decide to do some artwork, is quite challenging. It makes you work in a different way to a way that you might know or you might have done before, or you might feel pretty experienced at. And I think the really enjoyable thing is the way that Phil puts it across and gives options to how you approach it, whether you simply trace someone's face for a portrait or you construct it and again gives several different methods, several different ways. And each time there's the freedom to go your own way, but certainly it's very enjoyable. It's very nicely presented and yes, I would recommend it to anyone - experienced or beginner!
