Urban Illustration with Inking Techniques

Overview

“Now that the references are ready, it’s time to start the sketch. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to quickly rough your sketch with large shapes to establish the overall composition. ”

In this video lesson Heather Souliere addresses the topic: Sketching The Overall Shapes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Illustration with Inking Techniques. Use fineliners and ink washes to depict stunning scenes of your city .

Partial transcription of the video

“The first thing I do when starting off a new drawing is I figure out the border. I usually start by figuring out how large I want the drawing to be. For this drawing, I've decided to make it roughly 23 centimeters tall and about 14.5 centimeters wide. I've decided this because it fits on the page and it's the size of the display on the iPad, and I kind of like that. So what you need to figure out is how to leave roughly the same amount of space both on each side of your drawing and above and below your drawing. In this case, I've already done the math, and it's about 3.1 centimeters on each...”

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Course summary for: Urban Illustration with Inking Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 2184 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 30m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketchbook, Sketching