Christoph Niemann - Sunday Sketching
For years, Christoph Niemann spent every Sunday conducting a drawing experiment. The artist, whose illustrations have appeared in dozens of publications, including WIRED, would sit down with a blank piece of paper and a random, everyday object. He never knew what he was going to draw—only that his drawing would include whatever object was in front of him. And so he would turn pennies into scoops of ice cream. Or bananas into horse legs. Or highlighters into light sabers.
Niemann devised hundreds of these visual puns, and now he's collected them—along with more work from his career—in his new monograph, Sunday Sketching . Published by Abrams, it's a retrospective of Niemann's work, but it's also a meditation on the creative process. Throughout Sunday Sketching , Niemann uses clever drawings and his charming breed of humor to tackle tricky subjects like insecurity, money, and changing course while things are going well. The book, and the excerpt below, are a reminder that even the brightest creative minds face challenges when making consistently great work.
