Urban Sketching: Express Your World in a New Perspective
Storytelling
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
About the video: Storytelling
Overview
“Avoid doing some pretty postcards of the places you visit. You must tell your personal experience and feel about the situation.”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Storytelling, 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
“Storytelling Now we will talk about the importance of storytelling. It's one of the main points of the manifesto of Urban Sketchers, telling the story of your drawing. We will try to avoid the typical postcards to tell your own point of view. All the annotations you add to the drawing will give away a lot more about your mood and how you felt there. For example, during this week in Domestika I did a few drawings of what was happening in between the course. This is at a lunch with all the team. You see how many people are needed to make this. Between two dishes, I had to eat quite quickly, I...”
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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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