Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective
Warm Up Exercises
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: Warm Up Exercises
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to connect different elements together, comparing scale and angles. The main shapes will be drawn in black while the textures in grey or color fineliners. ”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Warm Up Exercises, 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
“Warming up exercises For this lesson, I brought some objects from home that I found in some flea markets. A dinosaur, a vintage plane, a View-Master, stereoscopic glasses that I collected when I was a kid. To explain it to you, I'll begin working the lines from the closest object to the ones behind. Now, let's draw. First of all, you have to identify the scale of the objects and how to compose them on the page. Here, the Triceratops is in the front, so I will start with the dinosaur and with the head of the dinosaur. Looking at the global composition, the head would be in the middle, on the...”
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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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