Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
Human Calligraphy
A course by Inma Serrano , Illustrator
About the video: Human Calligraphy
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you a quick and easy way to represent the figure. I have called it "human calligraphy".”
In this video lesson Inma Serrano addresses the topic: Human Calligraphy, 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
“Human Calligraphy In this lesson, we're going to try to draw figures passing by us on the streets. We'll try to do this quickly and then integrate them into our drawing. I call this way of drawing people human calligraphy because it resembles Japanese calligraphy with the strokes I create when drawing this way. I'm going to take a brush pen make the movement I would normally make with my hand when I draw people this way. Neither my shoulder nor my arm moves, only my hand, and we'll make a very simple gesture when drawing. The fewer strokes we make, the faster we can do this. It's about comp...”
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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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