Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DEDICATION; INTRODUCTION; My Sketchbook; How This Book Got Started; Why Quick Sketching is Important for Young Animators; This is Your Sketchbook Too!; Growing as an Artist; A Sketcher Sketches ... Always; My Lifelong Observations to Pass Along; 1. THE BASICS; What Motivates You?; Simple Shapes; Body Types; Skeleton/Muscle Tone/Fat; Movement and Balance; Summary; 2. ANALYSIS OF ACTION; Observation-Observing the Obvious; Understanding the Importance of Positive and Negative Space; Analysis and Observation
Analyzing the ActionExamples of Walking; Props; Sketch Something Entertaining; Line of Action; Purposeful Lines of Action; Underneath: Skeleton and Shapes Combined with a Line of Action; Body Language; Summary; 3. EVERY DAY ACTIVITIES; Sketching the Ordinary to the Extraordinary; Body Types; The Restaurant as a Place to Sketch; Summary; 4. THE ART OF SITTING; Analysis of Sitting; Sitting with Attitude; Words of Encouragement; Summary; 5. TABLE GAMES; A Friendly Game of Cards; Playing Pool; Ping-Pong; Summary; 6. STANDING WITH ATTITUDE; Individual Stances Tell a Story; At the Mic (Microphone)
How Body Type Affects the StandThe Camera as a Prop; The Wedding Photographer at Work; Summary; 7. WALKING WITH STYLE; Things to Look for in Walking Subjects; Analysis of a Walk; Walking in Groups; Summary; 8. CHILDREN; Oh, the Joy of Sketching Children; Children and Their Props; Teens Playing Soccer; Observing Skateboarders; A Game of Children's Baseball; Girls' Softball; Youth Boys' Baseball; Summary; 9. SPECIAL OCCASIONS; Weddings; A Tribute to Ben and Thelma Jones; Summary; 10. MUSIC, DANCING, AND SINGING; Catching the Rhythm; Musicians and Their Musical Instruments; Dancing to the Music
The Importance of Observation while Quick Sketching Fast ActionIce Skating; Negative Shapes in Capturing Fast Action Skiing; A Minimum of Line Work; Examples of the Various Positions of the Body; Snowboarding; Summary; 16. SKETCHING MULTIPLE CHARACTERS; Equestrian Jumping; Sumo Wrestling; Calf Roping; Dogs and their Humans; Summary; INDEX
Vocal MusicSummary; 11. THE ZOO; Know Your Animal Anatomy; Animals in Line; Summary; 12. INDIVIDUAL SPORTS; Athletes in Action; Boxing; Golf; The Rodeo; Track and Field; Summary; 13. TEAM SPORTS; Baseball; Basketball-Women; Basketball-Men; Football; Quick Sketching Hockey; Soccer; Volleyball; Summary; 14. QUICK SKETCHING AROUND THE WORLD; Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France; Pyramid Sketches from Chichen Itza, Mexico; Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia; El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain; The Feria Dress; Dancing and Merriment at Feria in the City of Rota, Spain; Summary; 15. WINTER SPORTS
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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.
Quick Sketching with Ron Husband : Revised and Expanded.