Quick Sketching with Ron Husband offers instruction to quick sketching and all its techniques. From observing positive and negative space and learning to recognize simple shapes in complex forms to action analysis and using line of action, this Disney legend teaches you how to sketch using all these components, and how to do it in a matter of seconds. Watch his drawings as he grows from a young, talented artist, to a true Disney animator. Follow him as he goes around the world and sketches flamenco dancers, football players, bakers, joggers, lions, tigers, anyone, and anything.
Key Features
Get tips on quick sketching from a Disney legend who has animated or supervised some of your favourite recent Disney movies like The Fox and the Hound, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast.Features artist’s guide and handbook which provides instruction while chronicling the author’s growth as an artist.Quickly try out Husband’s instructions and tips as you learn them in a sketchbook at the back of the book.This new edition re-emphasizes the four basic shapes and how important it is to recognize them in fast action.Stressing the importance of observation and the vital part this discipline plays in sketching.
Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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27 | (14) |
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8 | (4) |
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How This Book Got Started |
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12 | (3) |
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Why Quick Sketching is Important for Young Animators |
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This is Your Sketchbook Too! |
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16 | (2) |
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18 | (8) |
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A Sketcher Sketches...Always |
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26 | (1) |
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My Lifelong Observations to Pass Along |
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27 | (14) |
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41 | (18) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (2) |
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36 | (5) |
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41 | (18) |
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59 | (24) |
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Observation---Observing the Obvious |
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Understanding the Importance of Positive and Negative Space |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (2) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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Sketch Something Entertaining |
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50 | (4) |
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Purposeful Lines of Action |
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Underneath: Skeleton and Shapes Combined with a Line of Action |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (3) |
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59 | (24) |
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83 | (20) |
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Sketching the Ordinary to the Extraordinary |
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61 | (11) |
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72 | (1) |
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The Restaurant as a Place to Sketch |
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83 | (20) |
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103 | (8) |
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85 | (1) |
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92 | (11) |
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103 | (8) |
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111 | (18) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (3) |
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111 | (18) |
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129 | (10) |
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Individual Stances Tell a Story |
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113 | (5) |
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118 | (3) |
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How Body Type Affects the Stand |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (2) |
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The Wedding Photographer at Work |
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124 | (5) |
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129 | (10) |
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139 | (30) |
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Things to Look for in Walking Subjects |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (6) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (30) |
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169 | (18) |
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Oh, the Joy of Sketching Children |
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156 | (3) |
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159 | (1) |
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A Game of Children's Baseball |
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A Tribute to Ben and Thelma Jones |
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10 Music, Dancing, and Singing |
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189 | (1) |
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Musicians and Their Musical Instruments |
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190 | (13) |
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203 | (17) |
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220 | (3) |
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223 | (18) |
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241 | (18) |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (14) |
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241 | (18) |
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259 | (68) |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (4) |
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248 | (2) |
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252 | (7) |
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259 | (68) |
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327 | (20) |
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261 | (6) |
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267 | (4) |
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271 | (16) |
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287 | (34) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (2) |
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324 | (3) |
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14 Quick Sketching Around the World |
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Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France |
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334 | (4) |
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Pyramid Sketches from Chichen Itza, Mexico |
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338 | (2) |
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Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia |
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340 | (1) |
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El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain |
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341 | (1) |
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342 | (2) |
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Dancing and Merriment at Feria in the City of Rota, Spain |
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344 | (3) |
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347 | (20) |
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367 | (32) |
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The Importance of Observation while Quick Sketching Fast Action |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (3) |
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Negative Shapes in Capturing Fast Action Skiing |
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353 | (4) |
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357 | (1) |
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Examples of the Various Positions of the Body |
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358 | (1) |
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359 | (8) |
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367 | (32) |
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16 Sketching Multiple Characters |
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399 | (2) |
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369 | (12) |
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381 | (4) |
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385 | (5) |
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390 | (9) |
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Index |
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Ron Husband is a Disney animator who has worked on films such as The Small One, The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000, the re-release of Beauty and the Beast in IMAX format and Treasure Planet released in 2002 where he animated Long John Silver. He also animated the cool cat in the music video for Paula Abduls "Opposites Attract." On top of his animation credits, Ron has also illustrated numerous childrens books and magazines, and currently teaches drawing classes at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA and Art Center in Pasadena, CA, and he has taught drawing workshops in Mexico City, Mexico, Tokyo, Japan, and other locations all over the world.