“Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation. The contents of an animator’s sketchbook can sow the seeds for legendary stories, characters and layout designs.”

A number of topics are covered in the book, including the use of shapes, perspective, drawing figures, setting up landscapes, capturing movement, developing ideas, and laying out and composing.

I ended up looking at Peter Parr’s sketches and enjoyed every bit of it. He is called “an artist for all seasons” and rightly so.

I feel like all his drawings, be it of an animate or inanimate object possess a lot of character and life. He has also added a lot of cartoon examples in the book and it got me excited about it in the first place.

He is a professor at Bournemouth and often challenges his students to the 30 days challenge wherein they have to fill a sketchbook in 30 days. I plan on taking it myself over the Easter holidays.