Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
Humanize Architecture
A course by Inma Serrano , Illustrator
About the video: Humanize Architecture
Overview
“Now, I will explain to you how to approach the drawing of buildings without using the traditional perspective and how to lose the fear of architectural drawing.”
In this video lesson Inma Serrano addresses the topic: Humanize Architecture, 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
“Humanizing Architecture In this lesson, we'll study ways to approach architectural drawing without resorting to traditional perspective methods. In architectural drawing, the traditional perspective techniques are very powerful tools to work with, but they often prevent us from approaching architectural drawing in a different, more playful, and less academic way. We're going to work on architectural drawing starting with patches of color and then continue with the linework. When I explain architectural drawing, I often use the idea that buildings look like animals or people. They have eyes,...”
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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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