Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
Graphic Language
A course by Inma Serrano , Illustrator
About the video: Graphic Language
Overview
“Next, I'll show you how personal line can set the style. In addition, I will share with you some practices to try to discover your own graphic language.”
In this video lesson Inma Serrano addresses the topic: Graphic Language, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion. Learn to portray the passage of time and sketch your surroundings with in-situ drawing.
Partial transcription of the video
“Graphic Language In this lesson we’ll see how the graphic language and lines identify the personality of the artist and can help create personal style. To start, we'll look at some materials you can use that I like and that identify the line with its very own language. In this image by Hokusai, one of my favorite Japanese artists, is a teacher. You see how the line that is so clean and expressive is combined many times in the female body with an area that’s very clean, and in the area where the animal and the background are it is combined with a much more daring line and more expressive. Th...”
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Course summary for: Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Inma Serrano
A course by Inma Serrano
Inma Serrano combines her job as a drawing teacher with professional illustration work, regularly collaborating on projects for the press and illustrating novels, stories, poems, and more. She's been sketching everyday urban life for more than 20 years, compiling her illustrations in sketchbooks that go wherever she does. Her notebooks of city sketches have traveled across Europe as part of exhibitions in England, France, Italy, and Portugal.
She's created illustrations for a range of publishers like Yacaré, Gustavo Gili, and Planeta, and her work has been published in La Vanguardia and through Oxfam Intermón. Inma passes on her love of art and illustration to her students as a secondary school teacher while sharing her passion with a broader audience through drawing workshops she holds around the world.
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