Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
Overlapping and Sweeping
A course by Inma Serrano , Illustrator
About the video: Overlapping and Sweeping
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll teach you some ways to represent motion and show you overlapping and sweeping exercises.”
In this video lesson Inma Serrano addresses the topic: Overlapping and Sweeping, 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
“Overlap and Sweep In this lesson we’ll continue looking at two ways of interpreting the movement of a figure in the street. We will call the first “overlap” and the second we will call “sweep.” To do so, we're going to use a video of a person walking that we recorded on the street. What we’ll actually do is place several positions of this movement on top of each other. That's why we call it overlapping. The positions that this boy takes on while walking, if we look closely, are always the same, the only thing that changes is the legs. So, let's draw it first in as simple a way as possible, ...”
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Course summary for: Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
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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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