Artistic Architectural Drawing with Ink
Populating the Image
A course by Luke Adam Hawker , Artist
About the video: Populating the Image
Overview
“In this lesson, I will help you to develop your drawing to a point where it can be fully accepted as a cityscape. Populating the drawing will give a real sense of scale and breathe life into your piece. We will add figures to the image to create a clear indication of the height of the buildings. I will offer guidance on how to conform to realistic proportions. ”
In this video lesson Luke Adam Hawker addresses the topic: Populating the Image, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Architectural Drawing with Ink. Learn to create fictional landscapes through observational drawing, focusing on perspective, lighting, and shading.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll simply be adding people to our scene. So it's the final step, but it really brings everything together. in the scene. So. Let's start. Because this is a really large scale building, the people are gonna be extra tiny. So have a look at these houses. The doors are here. So they're going to be not much bigger than those are going to be just a bit smaller than those door shapes. So then just we literally vertical. So the people can be all over the scene. It's really up to you where you place them. So I'm going to inhabit the majority of the scene. So I'm going to start wi...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Architectural Drawing with Ink
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Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration

Luke Adam Hawker
A course by Luke Adam Hawker
Luke Adam Hawker is a professional artist based in Surrey, England. Growing up, he was always drawing and went on to study interior architecture at Nottingham Trent University. After graduating, he began his design career in London, alongside selling limited edition prints at markets and galleries.
In 2015, he left his job as an interior designer to focus on his own work and has since collaborated with clients including Annabels London, Soho House, Article 25, and Penhaligons Fragrance. Luke’s drawing of Big Ben was selected to be a permanent part of the Parliamentary Art Collection, and he also published a graphic novel, Together, which sold over 130K copies worldwide and became a Sunday Times Best Seller.
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