Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson with Alex Hillkurtz, you'll explore different types of sketchbooks and tools for daily sketching. You'll find materials suited for travel or detailed work, from lightweight Artist Loft sketchbooks to durable Moleskine and Midori options. We'll also cover a variety of pens, pencils, watercolors, and gouache paints, helping you choose tools that enhance your creative process.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Essential Sketchbooks and Tools for Architectural Sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'm going to present all the materials that we'll be using in this course, and I'll go in the order that we'll be using them in throughout the course. We'll start with pencils. I like to use mechanical pencils. These give a very fine line. I have a few different ones for variety. I have different kinds of lead in each pencil, and then I have different kinds of ink pens, fountain pens, and fine liners, and finally some gel pens, and white china markers for making white marks. This is some waterproof ink. I can put this in my fountain pens using this little tool, which is a ca...”

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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (93)
• 8785 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting