Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective
What We Will Do in the Course?
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: What We Will Do in the Course?
Overview
“In this lesson, I will describe my relationship with the Urban Sketchers community, but also my singular approach to sketchbooking. ”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: What We Will Do in the Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective. Rediscover your surroundings by creating watercolor sketches of people, places, and fisheye perspectives.
Partial transcription of the video
“What we will do on the course Here, I will invite you to become an urban sketcher. I discovered this community in 2008 when its founder, Gabriel Campanario, invited me to participate in a collective blog. At that time it was just a blog like the one I was already carrying, but I discovered a great community of sketchers all around the world. On the first day of its launching, I posted my very first sketch, a sketch of Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona with short captions about who built the house and at what time. At the end of his first day on the platform, some sketchers had posted...”
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Course summary for: Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Lapin
A course by Lapin
Lapin is an urban sketcher based in Barcelona, Spain. As a young boy, he remembers accompanying his father—an airplane technician—to his workplace to draw planes and imagine their stories. His three passions remain the same to this day: aviation, paleontology, and drawing.
In 18 years, he has filled over 200 sketchbooks, published 30 books, and was named the official air and space painter for the French Army in 2019. He’s a member of the Urban Sketching Community since 2008 and teaches Illustration Masters students at Elisava in Barcelona, as well as his own urban sketching workshops. His clients include the French Army, Air France, the City of Barcelona, Le Parisien Magazine, PlayStation, Heineken, Marks & Spencer, Aigle, Peugeot, Porsche, and Formula One.
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