Foundations of Drawing: Urban Sketching

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Genre: Video Tutorial / Drawing, Design

You don't need to drive out to the country to draw from life. From an artistic point of view, urban settings have just as much appeal. This Foundations of Drawing course shows how observing everyday life can give you an eye-opening appreciation for cities and towns and their surroundings (from the view out of a bus window to a half-built construction site). Will Kemp, founder of the Will Kemp Art School, demonstrates how to create frameworks for successful sketches using freehand vertical lines, perspective, and tonal blocks. Lessons follow a logical progression, from sketching static buildings and monuments to capturing the movement of individual figures and bustling crowds. The course will enable artists to practice their drawing skills and create fast, bold urban sketches with pencils, pens, or watercolors—whatever tools they have on hand.

Topics include:

Choosing your materials

Building structure into your drawing

Sketching architecture

Capturing panoramic views of a city

Drawing people in cafes

Sketching movement

Bringing it all together in a start-to-finish drawing

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Introduction

2m 17s

Welcome

1m 55s

Using the exercise files

22s

1. Sketching the Everyday

19m 35s

Capturing movement and change in the urban landscape

1m 57s

Pencils, inks, pens, and sketchpads

5m 31s

Watercolor and acrylic marker pens

3m 48s

Urban sketching vs. landscape sketching

3m 16s

The casual observer vs. the epic documentary maker

5m 3s

2. Structure, Mark Making, and Choosing the Right Materials

47m 28s

Thinking in straight lines: One building at a time

7m 58s

Light and shadow

10m 9s

Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pencil sketch

11m 54s

Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pen sketch

5m 54s

Matching materials and marks to your subject: Color

6m 3s

Challenge: How much detail is enough?

1m 21s

Solution: Will sketches a harbor scene

4m 9s

3. Architecture, Perspective, and Making Depth Work

47m 7s

Cityscapes, rooftops, and panoramas

5m 40s

Twilight and nightlight

10m 36s

Early morning light

7m 55s

Capturing a panoramic

5m 18s

Perspective: 1 point and 2 point

5m 11s

Challenge: Sketch realistic windows and doors

1m 30s

Solution: Will sketches a building

10m 57s