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Sketch Every Damn Day

52 Weeks of Lessons, Demos, Prompts, and Challenges to Improve Your Drawing Skills
Brief Description
Level up your drawing skills with this groundbreaking weekly guidebook! When it comes to improving your drawings, nothing beats consistent practice. Committing to sketching a little bit every day will go a long way to getting closer to being the best illustrator, artist, or designer you... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Level up your drawing skills with this groundbreaking weekly guidebook!

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Level up your drawing skills with this groundbreaking weekly guidebook!

When it comes to improving your drawings, nothing beats consistent practice. Committing to sketching a little bit every day will go a long way to getting closer to being the best illustrator, artist, or designer you can be.

In Sketch Every Damn Day, popular YouTube teacher Spencer Nugent offers simple lessons and prompts that explain how to draw complex objects as well as cover basic fundamentals and practice exercises to keep skills sharp, including:

  • Mastering Perspective: Exercises to develop perspective drawing abilities from beginner to advanced.
  • Form Building: Step-by-step demonstrations on building complex forms.
  • Line Quality: Demos that emphasise different line types and how to use them.
  • Colour/Materials/Texture: Applying materiality and realistic texture to objects.
  • Presentation: How to add backgrounds, notes, and context to sketches.

With over 20 years of drawing and teaching experience, Spencer breaks things down into simple step-by-step demonstrations so that beginners and advanced artists will find tips and tricks that will improve their work.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798888141441

Publisher: Rocky Nook

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 May 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Rocky Nook

Illustration: Illustrated

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 168

About the Author

Spencer Nugentis the founder of Sketch-A-Day.com and has been providing free, high-quality online design sketching tutorial content and on-site sketch workshops since 2008. He has created an extensive online network and following within the Industrial Design community and continues to connect with students and design professionals via his online properties. With his daily YouTube streams, he continues to share his passion for creating and drawing on 'Sketch-A-Day LIVE' as well as the sketch-a-day Instagram and TikTok. Spencer's professional experience includes working at General Motors, San Francisco-based design firm Astro Studios, heading up his own design consultancy, Studio Tminus, where he worked with several clients primarily in the consumer electronics and apparel industries.Spencer has led workshops and presentations for many higher educational institutions and corporate clients including designers at Adidas HQ, Herzogenaurach Germany, Apple Retail, LG, Adobe MAX, and he frequently presents on Adobe Live on Behance.net. In 2020, Spencer was awarded the Industrial Design Society of America's individual achievement award for his consistent work and passion related to industrial design education related to producing online educational content.

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