Modern Urban Sketching Techniques with Mixed Media
Negative shape and shadow shape
A course by Jenny Adam , Product Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Negative shape and shadow shape
Overview
“In addition to the geometric shapes, I like these two exercises to represent what I have seen in a very simplified manner and to capture organic surfaces.”
In this video lesson Jenny Adam addresses the topic: Negative shape and shadow shape, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modern Urban Sketching Techniques with Mixed Media. Immortalize urban street scenes and capture the flair of your favorite city with different painting techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Negative Shape and Shadow Shape Geometric shapes provide a good urban subject to capture. However, as soon as you encounter organic shapes such as trees, or human figures, it gets more complicated. I like to use blind and contour drawing for this. With blind drawing, you look only at your subject, and not at the page that you're drawing on. This is a great exercise to train your hand-eye coordination, and the results are often very free and playful. Contour drawing is about capturing your subject with an imaginary outline and simply drawing around it. I use both of these playful drawing tec...”
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Course summary for: Modern Urban Sketching Techniques with Mixed Media
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Ink Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration
Jenny Adam
A course by Jenny Adam
Jenny Adam comes from a family of artists and has been painting and drawing since she can remember. After finishing her studies, she threw herself into product design and, in 2018, won the iF DESIGN AWARD for her work. She started urban sketching as a hobby, but quickly perfected her skills in the technique. Later, she began teaching drawing classes and workshops, as well as organizing exhibitions, which led her to receive more and more illustration commissions. Jenny regularly participates in urban sketching events and is co-founder of an association of urban sketchers, which celebrated their first meeting in Germany in 2015.
For her, urban drawing is a form of visual expression that allows her to simultaneously draw inspiration from her surroundings. Her artistic influences include German painter Käthe Kollwitz, American painter Elizabeth Peyton, illustrator Benoît Guillaume, and painter Fairfield Porter. Jenny works primarily as an illustrator for her newspaper and magazine clients. From her studio in Hamburg, she creates work for clients from all over Europe. She has also collaborated with mejor companies like Lufthansa, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, and Alnatura, among others.
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