REVIEW: "Allow yourself to create. Artbook, sketch pads and diaries, "Natalie Rutkowski

Natalie Rutkowski not only shows the world of colored sketches, mixed fantasy and reality, it invites every man to create his own world. And it really concerns everyone, not just artists and illustrators, although they can advise this book first. If you've always wanted to start painting - this is the chance.

In this book you will find many tips, tricks and valuable ideas to create your own artbook. What it is? As the name implies, is a creative notebook in which you express yourself. Give some more precise definition is difficult, because the species artbuk great variety.

It can simply make sketches on any theme or no theme, can be glued collages of clippings of tickets and other petty nonsense that you found on the street, for example. You can create detailed and traced the works of art or just randomly nalyapat paint, expressing its present mood.

Frankly, I was fascinated by this idea simply - to create a hand-drawn version of the diary, every page of which will be depicted abstractly your day. But this experience, I want to tell in a separate post, and now more about the book Natalie Rutkowski.

Why create your artbook

As an introduction, the author talks about his personal experience, why she, a professional illustrator, working with orders on the computer, began to create artbook. In the first chapters of the book, she says, why do we need such unpaid work.

For people like me, who have never received money for his drawings, and so everything is clear: it is an interesting hobby that brings pleasure. But artists who are used to get paid for his work, creating beautiful notebooks with sketches and collages may seem useless. Why do this? To labors in vain and gathered dust on the shelf?

But not everything in this life is done for money. We walk and talk with your friends just like that, just so we go on the bike and not for a fee look interesting films. Creating artbook - this same pleasure, which helps to relieve tension, to splash out on the page all their emotions and even works as a therapy (in the book are real examples of people recover).

Creating artbook - it's fun, which helps to relieve tension and splash out on a page, all their emotions.

After analysis of the causes of the author goes to the kinds of creative notebook, and it turns out that they are a great variety to suit every taste and color.

They are so different

In the book "Everything you need to know to create your artbook," the author shows the different types of notebooks, so that everyone can choose what he likes. Drawn artbook, diaries with travel notes, diaries artist with sketches, scrapbook, by the fact that there was a house, pads on one theme - each creative notebooks looks so cool that I want to immediately begin to build something like.

And then you see specific advice on how it is created. Author helps you choose the paper for specific colors or other instruments, tells how and what you can create a notebook.

There is in this kind of special warmth when buying a notebook is not in the store, and do it with your hands, even if it is somewhat crooked. By the way, the book is an easy tutorial with pictures how to make notes. Everything is clear, so I was able to make their own artbook, though it took 2 days for it (it is necessary to wait until the glue dries, primnetsya paper, etc.).

But if someone prefers variants shoplifting - please old diaries for collages, book-accordion, cardboard book-baby - whatever your heart desires.
Natalie talks about ways of fastening materials for collage, including their own experience and their small "chips" choice of colors and color combinations, rules of composition, herbaria and collages, and even gives tips on arrangement of working place.

Visibility around

Throughout the book Natalie not only tells about the creation artbook and different techniques. Her description is invariably accompanied by photographs of the works or the works of other artists.

Toward the end of the book she even shows the step by step creation of reversals, where the photos can be clearly seen as a new page in different techniques.

In this section you can draw inspiration and learn new, unfamiliar technology more. When you look at a step by step process of creating, in the head immediately ideas are born in this technique. The main thing - do not forget them.

And yet not only fun

If you must earn at his work, there is nothing wrong - it is quite understandable desire, especially if you are good at.

The last section of Natalie tells artists how to make money on creating artbook. For example, you can upload your work on Etsy and other similar sites, or even go to an art exhibition of such works.

The book contains advice on the presentation of their work: how to take pictures, how to represent the community and what not to do.

Who is this book

I believe that the book "Allow yourself to create" suitable for everyone. Someone may say that it is not a creative person, and does not know how to draw, but I am firmly convinced that "not creative" people do not exist.

As for the skills - you do not have somewhere to spread their work, or at least someone to show them, and the skill comes with experience. From the drawing process, having fun, it tightensAnd you can even call it a certain kind of meditation. Meditating on his work.

"Allow yourself to create. Artbook, sketch pads and diaries, "Natalie Rutkowski

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