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The Basics of Urban Sketching
Learn how to sketch the world that you see around you
Created byPeter Jochems
Last updated 7/2021
English
What you'll learn
- Students can learn how to capture the world around them in watercolour and fine liner on paper.
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Course content
28 sections • 85 lectures • 13h 53m total length
Requirements
- This course is suitable for beginners and advanced students.
Description
The Basics of Urban Sketching
Urban sketching is a fun activity. In this course you will learn, step by step, how to use pencil, fine liner and watercolor to sketch the world that you see around you.
How to use linear perspective to structure your sketches, how to measure proportions properly, how to create depth in a sketch. These are just a few of the topics that are covered in this comprehensive course.
Here is a list of topics in this course
- How to sketch
- seeing simples shapes in things
- How to measure proportions
- How to use textures in your sketches
- One and two point perspective
- Guidance for drawing people
- How to create depth in a sketch
- How to approach complex structures in a sketch
- How to use fine liner and watercolor
- A bit of Art-History to put it in a broader context
The locations that we visit to sketch
The locations that we will visit in this course are Antwerp, Delft, Dordrecht and Breda, cities in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Overall structure of the course
The course is built up from
- Tutorials explaining how things work,
- Demonstration videos, that you can draw along with
- Immersive videos so you can experience urban sketching on location while you're at home.
Who this course is for:
- The course is aimed at students who would like to learn how to draw and paint the world around them, on location or from photos.