“Sketchy” is the quality of an image that still has most aspects of the original object, but not all. It can be achieved by drawing fast, or with a minimum of detail.
“Sketchiness” is often associated with an artistic style, but in fact drawing sketched images is something that can be practiced and applied to any style.
Sketchiness also applies to photography and other visual media.
The word “sketchy” comes from the word sketch (or “sketchbook”) itself, which is a drawing done in haste with minimal detail.
Trying to draw too slowly will not help you achieve sketchy images. Instead, try drawing fast: draw as quickly as you possibly can without sacrificing details or your sense of good proportions. This can appear quite difficult while you are starting out, but it rapidly becomes easier once you have trained yourself to do it (which will take a few weeks).
One of the best ways to gain skill in drawing, sketching, or painting is to draw by using a model rather than from your imagination. However, sometimes it is hard to figure out just what kind of image you want to draw. If you’re not too sure about an idea, why not try drawing freeform? Sketchy images are fonts that can be used for quick doodling.
TTF Fonts, CJK Fonts, and dingbat fonts are a great way for designers and artists to come up with creative ideas. And knowing how to use these fonts can help you create interesting drawings. A sketch font is different from an ordinary font because it is designed specifically for drawing purposes and contains hand-drawn shapes or characters. These fonts are available in many different styles and themes to fit every artist’s personality.
The Characteristic of Sketchy Image Fonts
The sketchy image fonts are also known as Chinese calligraphy fonts because they contain Chinese characters. But they are more than just ordinary Chinese characters; they have been carefully drawn by hand. They look just like the handwritten form of the Chinese characters but have been specially created using computer software.
These hand-drawn Chinese calligraphy fonts are useful when you want to add a personal touch
In the past I’ve provided some examples of the kinds of sketches that can be useful in problem solving, and I’m pleased to see that others have begun to do this as well. One example is the sketch of a new way to make art by James Gurney; here’s another one (pdf) by Richard Prout.
The main advantage of a sketch is that it’s easy and fast to create, so you can explore many different possibilities quickly. One thing that makes it hard for me to use this method is my perfectionism: it takes such an effort for me to draw anything that it seems silly just to throw away all the sketches afterward. But this perfectionism is not necessary: you can keep only a few sketches and still find what you’re looking for. Also, if you spend more time on each sketch you’ll have more information per unit of time, so you can get a better idea of what your options are before deciding which ones to explore further.
The other thing I want to emphasize is that the sketch doesn’t have to be a drawing; it could be anything that helps you record your ideas. You might try writing them down in words or in some kind of symbolic notation, or even recording them in a video or audio file.
When I was in college, I took some art classes. The assignments were always to draw something. We’d have to draw a person, or a place, or an object.
I didn’t like these assignments. When it’s time to draw something, you can’t just put anything down on the page and expect it to be interesting. You have to know what you’re drawing before you put pencil to paper. That’s not how I felt about art; I thought that when you drew, you captured a feeling, and the thing you drew was less important than that feeling.
When I was in high school I decided that I didn’t like drawing at all. But then in college I got assigned a sculpture project: build something out of clay, about 2 feet tall. And this project was fun for me — it was hard work but it was satisfying work. It felt like sculpting: shaping the clay with my fingers and my tools until it looked just right.
What made the difference? One of the differences is that when you’re sculpting, you start with something organic — a big ball of clay — and your job is to make something out of that organic material that’s not just bigger but also different: more specific and detailed and structured, somehow more
I’m not a great artist, and I don’t know much about art history. But I have noticed that nearly everyone who is really good at something draws or paints it.
So the other day, when I was drawing a picture of an ape at the zoo, my eight-year-old son asked me why. “Because it’s easier to understand pictures,” I said.
He thought about that for a minute. “Why are you trying to understand apes?” he finally asked.
“Because they’re interesting,” I said.
“‘Cuz they’re interesting” is the whole reason why people draw or paint anything. And I think it’s the same reason why people learn science. If you want to understand something, draw it. If you want to communicate clearly to someone else, draw it.
Usually the most interesting animal in a zoo is not the one you went there to see. That’s because the main characteristic of a captive animal is its awareness of captivity, and animals don’t have much to do with that awareness except show it. But if you go to a zoo on an off day, when no one else is there, you will see this awareness in action.
Tigers pacing back and forth in a small cage are thinking about what it would be like to be a tiger in the wild. The problem is confinement, and they are trying to solve it by pacing. If the cage were any bigger, they wouldn’t need to pace; they could just roam around at will. But their instincts tell them that the larger the cage gets, the more dangerous it is becoming, so they pace as a kind of test–or warning–to ward off danger before it arrives.
The same thing is true of zebras standing on an island surrounded by water. They know they can swim, but they don’t know how far they can swim before exhaustion sets in or before some predator starts following them. So they stand there swapping guard duty. And the monkeys who have learned to remove the caps from soda bottles and drink what’s inside are doing something similar:
