Besides which drawing and sketching is fun. You wouldn’t start building a house with no foundations or prior plans and drawings, it’s the same when planning a painting. Planning a painting in your sketchbook first is an important step in the painting process in my opinion. This problem could have been alleviated had these artists carried out some pencil sketches first to design their compositions. I’ve seen many terrible landscape paintings in art galleries (some with high price tags) because of bad compositions due to lack of prior planning. But why sketch and draw, why not just start painting? Well there is a simple answer, if you go straight into a studio painting it’s likely you’ll run into trouble with the composition. Whenever I paint a landscape I never just get straight into it, I always do some planning first and the planning always begins with my sketchbook.
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