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Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching

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Overview

Learn how to draw from life—in an urban setting. Will Kemp shows how to draw buildings, street scenes, cafés, and people, as well as the bustling movement of cities and towns.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Sketching the Everyday
  • Capturing movement and change in the urban landscape
  • Pencils, inks, pens, and sketchpads
  • Watercolor and acrylic marker pens
  • Urban sketching vs. landscape sketching
  • The casual observer vs. the epic documentary maker
2. Structure, Mark Making, and Choosing the Right Materials
  • Thinking in straight lines: One building at a time
  • Light and shadow
  • Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pencil sketch
  • Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pen sketch
  • Matching materials and marks to your subject: Color
  • Challenge: How much detail is enough?
  • Solution: Will sketches a harbor scene
3. Architecture, Perspective, and Making Depth Work
  • Cityscapes, rooftops, and panoramas
  • Twilight and nightlight
  • Early morning light
  • Capturing a panoramic
  • Perspective: 1 point and 2 point
  • Challenge: Sketch realistic windows and doors
  • Solution: Will sketches a building
4. Cafes, People, and Movement
  • Cafes, bars, and restaurant scenes: A single figure
  • People: Groups and scale
  • Cafes, bars, and restaurant scenes: Groups
  • Challenge: Sketch people and movement
  • Solution: Will sketches a street busker
5. Monuments and Street Furniture
  • Monuments
  • Natural elements in the city
  • Lampposts, telegraph poles, and benches
6. Bringing It All Together
  • Challenge: Bringing it all together
  • Solution: Bringing it all together in sketching
  • Solution: Bringing it all together in watercolor
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Will Kemp

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