Modern Urban Sketching Techniques with Mixed Media
Choosing composition and motif
A course by Jenny Adam , Product Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Choosing composition and motif
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you the rules of composition that can help you create an image that will direct the viewer's eye the way you want it to be. We will also talk together about choosing a suitable motif.”
In this video lesson Jenny Adam addresses the topic: Choosing composition and motif, 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
“Composition and Choosing Subjects In this lesson, I'll show you how I deal with subject choice and composition. I'd like to come back to the sketch from the beginning, the tower in Stralsund. You can see in this drawing that it was there to express something else, But the composition itself isn't very exciting. The tower stands so isolated somehow in the middle of the page. The composition didn't end up very attractive. I find thumbnails, or vignettes, very helpful for composition. The idea is to develop little mini-sketches on your page and try out different themes and rules of composition...”
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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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