Architectural Illustration with Watercolor

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you some important fundamentals to know for the correct capture of lights and shadows, a central part of the technique to approach this course.”

In this video lesson Gonzalo Ibáñez addresses the topic: Basics of light capture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Architectural Illustration with Watercolor. Discover perspective drawing techniques and learn how to capture light and shadow.

Partial transcription of the video

“Fundamentals to capture light Now I'll show you the fundamentals to capture light and shadow. Capturing light and shadow is important for painters to resolve very old themes, like capturing depth on a flat medium like a sheet. Light and shadow are even more important than color, in my opinion. The brain easily recognizes a mistake, more so than the color because we are used to seeing, around us, how light manifests itself on different materials, depths and weather conditions even. While light gives us the answer of what we're looking at, color tells us how we're seeing it. It's very importa...”

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Course summary for: Architectural Illustration with Watercolor

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (699)
• 13924 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (2h 47m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting