Travel Sketching in a Cafe

Name: Travel Sketching in a Cafe
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Illustrating Food & Drink in Watercolor and Pencil

Created byAmy Stewart

Last updated 12/2020

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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 sections • 21 lectures • 2h 10m total length

Introduction2:32
Learn to sketch food and drink quickly and simply in cafes, capturing meals, drinks, and everyday moments with ink and watercolor, using quick perspective tricks and photo references.
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.

Watercolor Tips12:25
Cheers! A Quick Watercolor Demo2:12
Drawing Tips7:54
Circles & Ellipses6:14
Learn how circles turn into ellipses in perspective, using a plate, pizza, and jar to show how viewing angle changes top and bottom ellipses, and why bottom cannot be flat.
Measuring Cups & Saucers4:23
If you'd like to print out any of these images and try out what I'm doing, you can grab them from the resources in the next section. For instance, this coffee cup image is in the Resources for the Coffee video, lecture 11, and so on. But you can also use your own photos for this class, and I encourage you to do that so you're drawing the cups and dishes that are familiar to you.
Drawing Cups & Saucers8:30
Food Shapes2:30
Travel sketching in a cafe explores food shapes categorized as circular, random, and box. It teaches drawing ellipses for circular items and box-like forms for wedge shapes to simplify drawing.
Drawing Food as Boxes14:24
Explore drawing food by turning familiar shapes into boxes and cubes, using vertical and parallel lines to build perspective, and practice with sandwiches, butter, and cake.

Coffee2:43
Negroni5:13
Learn how to sketch a negroni in watercolor, focusing on glass shapes, ice cubes, citrus garnishes, and color layering to capture light through liquid.
Martini Glass2:59
Agave Pina5:34
Travel sketching in a cafe captures a render of agave pina: a glass with gray-blue highlights, pencil ice, and a green sage and jalapeño garnish with the tequila pineapple recipe.
Cappuccino7:38
Croissant8:29
Pizza8:07
Sketch a pizza on a cafe table. Outline the paper to set space, draw a light guide line for the crust, and add color and shadows to imply depth.
Sandwich9:27
Cherry Pie5:31
Explore travel sketching in a cafe by painting a slice of pie, focusing on angles, crust, and a layered palette to capture cherries, highlights, and a wine color.
Frose All Day6:21
Practice quick travel sketching by painting a frozen rosé drink, exploring pinks and oranges, glass highlights, garnishes, and perspective to capture the moment playfully.

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

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 8min

Food & Drink Basics8 lectures • 59min

Let's Eat! (And Drink)10 lectures • 1hr 2min

Final Thoughts1 lecture • 2min

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