Drainting

The art of combining drawing and painting

Drainting is the name Felix Scheinberger has given to the intuitive combination of drawing and painting. In doing so, he has overturned the centuries-old, and totally unnecessary separation of painting areas and drawing lines, and combines the best of both worlds.

When you were a child, you picked up your paint box for painting areas, and your pencils for drawing details and lines. Intuitively and naturally. Then, you learned about the difference between »drawing « and »painting «, and this is when the difficulties began.

Where there are no outlines, they have to be found and invented abstractly. This means that you have to capture everything with the first strokes: proportion and perspective, contrast and texture, the big picture and the details. Because this is rarely successful, frustration is predetermined.

Painting and drawing become drainting!

Painting areas and drawing lines. In this order. From the approximate to the more exact. From the overall impression to the detail. Each in the technique best suited. Your pictures will become better, the thrill of making something grows, the combination of both inspires.

Be it urban sketching, sketchbook, comic, or illustration, Felix Scheinberger awakens your love of creating in short chapters with helpful impulses and valuable practical tips. And he paves a new, more accessible way to a better picture.

Felix Scheinberger knows what he is talking about!

Until the Renaissance, people had mixed the techniques intuitively. Then came a proper picture boom, frescoes were produced in job-sharing »production lines«. And the separation of the working stages was born. The sketch as preparatory work, filling in later. The pre-sketch with cheap instrument, the paints were expensive. Sometimes, habits persist until someone comes along and calls out a revolution. Then the scales fall from the eyes- and the advantages of the alliance of painting and drawing become crystal clear. The paint brings light, emotion and density to the paper. Clarity and structure come from the drawing.

Felix Scheinberger is known for his useful practical tips…

As a professor in Muenster, he passes his knowledge on successfully, and he tries out new techniques such as drainting. As an illustrator, he is in demand and booked worldwide. As an author, Felix Scheinberger is known for his useful practical tips.

In his books, everything comes together: his own relentless drawing and sketching, his intense experience in teaching and the feedback of his worldwide fan base. Drainting does not contain grey theory, but much colorful practice.

How is this book distinguishable from its »sibling titles « Dare to Keep a Sketchbook and Urban Watercolor Sketching?

The good news first: There is barely any overlapping between the titles. You can get all three of them.

Dare to Keep a Sketchbook takes you by the hand. Takes away the fear of the white page. Passes on the thrill of drawing and shows how to turn your sketchbook into your best friend and permanent companion. It is about drawing on the go and outside, about your attitude towards drawing, and also getting over inner weaknesses.

Urban Watercolor Sketching is a solid introduction to the technique of aquarelle painting. It is based on Dare to Keep A Sketchbook, and it goes far beyond Drainting in questions of watercolor.

Drainting combines the techniques, it guides you towards a good picture in the most simple and promising way.

In case you are already successfully working with Drainting, you won’t need Dare to Keep a Sketchbook, Urban Watercolor Sketching will nonetheless help you further. If you already own Urban Watercolor Sketching and Dare to Keep a Sketchbook, Drainting will still give you much new input.

We view these three books as »book siblings «: each one has its individual strengths, their parents (Felix and his creativity) are the same. The fourth Scheinberger book Illustration differs from the other three. Here, many other illustrators do not get to speak, but to illustrate. And Felix sheds a light on the economical, legal, and organizational aspects of life as an illustrator next to the techniques. It is thus rather intended for (emergent) professionals than for getting involved with creativity for the first time.

Features and design

In order to make the relation of the titles visible, we bound all four of them in half-linen. From there begins the individuality in cover material and paper, features and details. And no, not every copy of  Drainting is not hand-colored by the author. He continues to do so for Urban Watercolor Sketching but that’s enough…

Drainting
The Art of Combining Drawing and Painting
160 pages with innumerable colorful images
size 21 x 24 cm
3^rd edition
thread-stitched half-linen and silver cover
with fancy-linen-lined spine in bright orange and bi-colored embossing

Drainting- the new alliance of drawing and painting!