Pictorial Sketchbook with Gouache
Life on the street: reduced palette and layers 1
A course by Maru Godas , Illustrator
About the video: Life on the street: reduced palette and layers 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will advance a little more in basic gouache techniques, using examples from your urban environment, such as shops or buildings. We will do a simple exercise working with layers and using only three colors.”
In this video lesson Maru Godas addresses the topic: Life on the street: reduced palette and layers 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pictorial Sketchbook with Gouache. Explore new creative languages to work into your sketchbook and apply them to your illustrations and urban sketches.
Partial transcription of the video
“Life on the streets: reduced palette and layers In this lesson I'll show you new gouache techniques. One thing we'll discuss is the use of a reduced palette. Although we've seen it before, we'll delve a bit more into it, and discuss some tricks for working in layers. I'll tell you something. I travelled to Chicago and had to take very little weight, as I had a long journey a lot of workshops and take a lot of material. For me it was a challenge, as I love taking lots of tubes, working with lots of materials, to take exactly the colors I needed that would work, that I liked and were few in n...”
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Course summary for: Pictorial Sketchbook with Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Maru Godas
A course by Maru Godas
Maru Godàs studied graphic design at the IDEP school and at the Llotja de Barcelona. From that moment on, her career focused mainly on projects for various publishers, such as RBA, Cruïlla, Planeta, and Salvat, among others. Her true passion has always been illustration and, after discovering the Urban Sketchers collective, she took to the streets with a sketchbook in search of inspiration.
Since then, she has published several books with her work and illustrations in magazines for various big names such as La Caixa, La Vanguardia, and RACC. She currently combines her commissions with teaching, leading workshops and courses on urban sketching and illustration around the world. She enjoys sharing her discoveries with her students and, above all, encouraging them to try new things.
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