Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes
Adding Movement with Water-Soluble Ink
A course by eleanor doughty , Illustrator
About the video: Adding Movement with Water-Soluble Ink
Overview
“The important things are already down on paper. The next step will be adding moving objects to give the scenery the feeling of being alive.”
In this video lesson eleanor doughty addresses the topic: Adding Movement with Water-Soluble Ink, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes. Learn to create a lively and dynamic illustration of an urban scene using pencil, ink, marker, and watercolor to capture its mood and energy.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Adding Movement with Water-Soluble Ink In this lesson, I'll show you how to use water-soluble materials to add objects that are moving. At this point, I would not recommend using new colors, stay with the color scheme that we've already had. In this case, for me, yellows, ochres, blues, and greens. You can also add neutrals but don't stray outside of this color scheme. In this case, the objects that are moving are mainly people and cars, so I'll use the video reference to start populating the scene here. Like urban sketching, you can't rely on people or anything standing still and posing ...”
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Course summary for: Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Ink Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook, Sketching, Watercolor Painting
eleanor doughty
A course by eleanor doughty
Eleanor Doughty is an illustrator, painter, and teacher who specializes in urban sketching. After exploring the creative world while growing up near Washington DC, she studied communication arts with a focus on illustration at Virginia Commonwealth University, which led to collaborations in the editorial field. Combining her love for travel and drawing, she discovered her niche as a freelance location illustrator.
Using mixed media to create expressive sketches of urban scenes, Eleanor embraces a gestural approach to convey the vibe and energy of a place whimsically and authentically. She has collaborated with magazines and newspapers such as VICE, The Seattle Times, Lion’s Roar, and The Boston Globe, as well as companies like Hilton Hotels, Penguin Random House, and Kroger.
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