Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook

Overview

“In this lesson I will teach you some notions on how to draw by inventing: cities, fantastic elements, landscapes, visions, distant islands. I will take inspiration from the drawings made during the exercises of the previous unit, starting from that of the stick.”

In this video lesson Claudio Patanè addresses the topic: Improvised Drawing: The Twig, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook. Learn to create, arrange, and bind an artistic journal to depict your daily travels through words, drawings, and objects.

Partial transcription of the video

“Improvised Illustration: The Twig In this lesson, I'll teach you how to use improvised illustration, applying the drawings from the previous exercises. What is an improvised illustration? It's an illustration that starts with a layer of watercolor freely applied on the blank sheet of paper. After that, using tools like pencil or pen, you draw from that confusion, from those halos created by the water, from that transformation, to create the architecture, the views, the islands, the landscapes, the invented cities, the invisible cities, and so on. Let's start drawing, using our twig as a ref...”

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Course summary for: Mixed-Media Travel Sketchbook

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (74)
• 2336 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (3h 17m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Painting, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Watercolor Painting