Urban Sketching: Create Expressive Cityscapes
Drawing in the Finishing Touches
A course by eleanor doughty , Illustrator
About the video: Drawing in the Finishing Touches
Overview
“We are almost done! At this point, it's important to take a step back and look at what we have, and then decide what finishing touches the image needs, for example, to describe that place or tell a story.”
In this video lesson eleanor doughty addresses the topic: Drawing in the Finishing Touches, 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
“ Drawing in the Finishing Touches In this lesson, we'll go over some finishing touches to resolve all the unresolved areas of this picture. Now that we've drawn in enough people, cars, and other objects to populate the scene, we can fill in the areas around them to fully describe the light and the shadow in this San Francisco street scene. I'll do these last finishing touches mostly with these watercolor pencils, but I'll probably keep them as dry regular pencils and not add much water media to them. Now, I'll fill in the spaces around these people and cars to describe the textures of the ...”
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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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