Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
Composition, Colors, and Volumes
A course by Inma Serrano , Illustrator
About the video: Composition, Colors, and Volumes
Overview
“Now, it's time to start working on the course project. I will explain to you how to distribute the masses of color and the volumes in the different planes of the drawing.”
In this video lesson Inma Serrano addresses the topic: Composition, Colors, and Volumes, 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
“Composition, Colors, and Volumes In this lesson, you will learn how to place the elements on the page. Now that we've seen how to select the composition, which ones we have discarded and which ones we have chosen, now we will place the patches of color on the paper, and with that, we will distribute the composition. We start with the human figure, which we have seated in the foreground on the right. Here we will distribute the first patch of color, which will correspond to the figure. Behind the figure we will remove the second patch of color, which will correspond to the buildings in the b...”
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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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