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Travel Sketching in a Cafe
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239 students

Travel Sketching in a Cafe

Illustrating Food & Drink in Watercolor and Pencil
Created byAmy Stewart
Last updated 12/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How to draw basic food and drink shapes using perspective and simple geometry
  • How to draw details once the major shapes are established
  • How to use watercolor to quickly bring drawings to life when sketching at the table
  • How to add your own writing and other accents to your sketchbook

Course content

4 sections21 lectures2h 10m total length
  • Introduction2:32
  • Supplies5:02

    The supply list is attached. You're welcome to work from your own photos, and I'd encourage you to do that because you'd be working with cups and plates and food and drink that's familiar to you. But if you'd like to use my photos, they're included as resources in Lectures 11-19 below.

Requirements

  • Beginning art skills

Description

One of the best parts of traveling is trying a different cuisine. And the fact is, when you’re traveling, you do end up spending a lot of time in restaurants.

That means that your travel sketchbook is the perfect place for drawing food and drink! It’s also a fun way to pass the time in a café.

And it’s not just for travel—drawing your drink, or drawing your dinner, is a great practice for everyday sketching.

In this class, I’m going to show you how to capture food and drink in real time, at the table.

That means we’ll be learning techniques to work quickly in pencil and watercolor.

We’ll practice basic geometrical shapes so you’ll already know how to draw a glass or a plate accurately before you even start.

We’ll learn about a few colors that are especially useful for drawing food and drink.

And we’ll learn a style of drawing in pencil that is whimsical and also personal to you.

This style is quick and informal, but it’s everything you need to know to capture memorable meals and those little everyday moments at the kitchen table.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginning and intermediate artists