Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective
Linework
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: Linework
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how I build a curvilinear perspective in a very intuitive way. I start with black fine liner by the closest element, my foreground. This first element will be my scale of the composition. I only describe the main shapes of the buildings in black. For the textures, patterns, or secondary details, I will use a grey or ochre fineliner. I encourage you to add storytelling to your sketch, including people, speech bubbles, soundtrack, and descriptions. You have to pay attention to what is going on while you are sketching.”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Linework, 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
“Line work Now I'll show you the line work. I always start with the ink pen, the fineliner, starting from the closer part, the foreground, and going step by step to the background. So, you will see that this distortion will just work itself without any guideline to create this curvilinear perspective. So let's start. The closest part here in this landscape is definitely my hands and my sketchbook, what I get in front, and then the terrace, I can see all the terrace from one side to the other, so this will be my first part of the drawing on the lower part. It's better to spend 4 or 5 minutes ...”
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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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