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Architectural Illustration: Capture a City’s Personality

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Overview

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Depict a cityscape using digital and analog techniques to find your own illustration style
  • Introduction
  • Preparation
  • Digital Work
  • Applications
  • Final project
Have you ever felt moved while walking through a city, and compelled to express how it makes you feel? This feeling of serendipity can be difficult to communicate in words, but according to artist and architect Carlo Stanga, it is much easier to transmit through an illustration of the place itself.

Architectural illustration is a wonderful way to connect with the mysterious attraction to an urban space, and in this course, you will discover renowned architectural illustrator Carlo Stanga’s methodology, that combines both analog and digital methods, to discover your own visual language and depict an urban space that is special to you.

Syllabus

  • Presentation (About Me)
  • Influences
  • What We Will Do on the Course
  • How to Choose Your City
  • Study the City: Find the City’s Personality / Identity
  • Open-Air Sketch
  • Photograph and Sketch: Buildings and Architecture
  • Photograph and Sketch: People and Objects
  • Fantastic Elements
  • Tracing Our Illustrations With Ink Using the Lightbox
  • Scanning and Combining All the Elements 1
  • Scanning and Combining All the Elements 2
  • Scanning and Combining All the Elements 3
  • Scanning and Combining All the Elements 4
  • Color and the Importance of Contrast 1
  • Color and the Importance of Contrast 2
  • Color and the Importance of Contrast 3
  • Transparency
  • Shadows 1
  • Shadows 2
  • Shadows 3
  • Consideration About Your Finished Illustration
  • Your Specialization and Creating Your Portfolio
  • Architectural Illustration: Capture a City’s Personality

Taught by

Carlo Stanga

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