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willkempartschool.com/how-to-paint-an-acrylic-still-life-painting/urban-sketching-for-beginners
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.
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This Urban Sketching Course shows how observing everyday life can give an eye-opening appreciation for city/townscapes 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 free-hand 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
What you will learn:
How to choose materials for drawing city scenes
How to sketch buildings
How to draw people
How to capture movement in drawings
willkempartschool.com/how-to-paint-an-acrylic-still-life-painting/urban-sketching-for-beginners
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
This Urban Sketching Course shows how observing everyday life can give an eye-opening appreciation for city/townscapes 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 free-hand 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
What you will learn:
How to choose materials for drawing city scenes
How to sketch buildings
How to draw people
How to capture movement in drawings
