Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective
Perspective
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: Perspective
Overview
“In this lesson, I will explain different concept of perspective representations, from classic perspective to curvilinear perspective, a revolutionary way to capture all the space around you as seen through a fisheye. ”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Perspective, 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
“Perspective In this lesson, we'll talk about perspective, but not a very classical one. What I developed over the years is a more intuitive way to represent a space as we witness it, to get a very wide angle, a kind of fisheye perspective. The heritage we have from the Renaissance works only for a very short, wide-angled vision. Let me explain it. The regular perspective with one, two or three vanishing points only works for subjects that are seen through a thirty-angle vision field, like this. This kind of representation does not allow you to represent what is around you. What I like to sh...”
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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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