Pictorial Sketchbook with Gouache
Decision making: explore the best option
A course by Maru Godas , Illustrator
About the video: Decision making: explore the best option
Overview
“In this lesson we will make the basic decisions that will shape our work. We will do it step by step so that you learn this process and apply it to your drawings. From the chosen location, we will make thumbnails of the composition, we will design the color palette and, with a slight line, we will fit the elements that we have chosen for our panorama into our notebook.”
In this video lesson Maru Godas addresses the topic: Decision making: explore the best option, 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
“Decision making: explore the best option Now is the time to start drawing, but first we'll do a few things that I recommend, when you tackle a large double-page. It's the decision making. The first is to choose the space. In the exercise that we'll do in this course I've chosen a square in Barcelona. It's not excessively monumental, but it's a place that's quite recognizable a typical place, where there's a square, many buildings, a lot of urban life, banks, and, you can see a city skyline, with recognizable elements, which is always good to have, as it's what makes the city. The rest are t...”
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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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