Pictorial Sketchbook with Gouache
Bringing your scene to life: lines and details 1
A course by Maru Godas , Illustrator
About the video: Bringing your scene to life: lines and details 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will finish the urban scene, we will add the line elements with colored pencils, graphite and black pencil. We will paint the small details, street furniture, building lines ... even the characters that will give life to your drawing.”
In this video lesson Maru Godas addresses the topic: Bringing your scene to life: lines and details 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
“Bring your scene to life: lines and details Okay, we've left the gouache base dry a bit and now we'll do another type of work, with lines. We'll add the top layer. The pencil works really well on dry gouache. We add another sensation that I mentioned earlier of texture, city texture, with buildings, roofs, antennas... We don't understand what they are, but they give that sensation in a panoramic when it's quite far. We'll try to recreate that sensation with coloring pencils and with the random blotches, that are now dry. It's important to see that I've chosen a range of colors that appear i...”
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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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