Vibrant Urban Illustration with Gouache Paint
Adding Details 1
A course by Mike Thomas , Travel Artist and Urban Sketcher
About the video: Adding Details 1
Overview
“Now that the interior is set up, let’s focus on the details that catch your attention and include them in your artwork to create life, depth, details, and humour to make the most of your artwork and bring it to life! ”
In this video lesson Mike Thomas addresses the topic: Adding Details 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vibrant Urban Illustration with Gouache Paint. Transform the shapes, shadows, and colors of the world around you into vibrant artwork that captures the energy of a scene using gouache paint.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Adding Details In this lesson, with our foundation down, we can work in some detail and add some life to our artwork. I'll start by using a round brush. It's a bit small, a size 4. It's more your traditional paintbrush, what you think of when you imagine an artist. I'll start working in some darker tones, I feel, trying to create some depth to our artwork. This where I'll go a bit more saturated in the colour, not muting it or washing it out. I'll need a little more blue to add to this purple we've made... to get the consistency right. We were working in washes initially and started to bu...”
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Course summary for: Vibrant Urban Illustration with Gouache Paint
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Category
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Areas
Architectural Illustration, Gouache Painting, Painting, Sketching

Mike Thomas
A course by Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas is an artist and tutor with over 10 years’ experience as a graphic designer. He lives and works in London and the South East of the UK. After spending the majority of childhood painting and drawing, Mike studied art at high school before enrolling in arts college, and earning a BA in Creative Arts from University. After graduating, Mike moved to London to pursue a career in graphic design.
Since then, Mike has worked with brands including Arsenal FC and Bonhams Auctioneers, and his work has been featured at exhibitions including Royal Tunbridge Wells Art Society Summer Exhibition (2022), South East Open Art Studio (2022), and the Art Escape Exhibition (2020). Mike also shares his work with 14K followers on Instagram.
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