From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
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Capturing movement and change in the urban landscape
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
Capturing movement and change in the urban landscape
- Have you ever promised yourself you're going to take your sketchbook out with you and get sketching, but you don't? Or you actually bring the sketchbook with you, but then it still gets stuck in your bag, and you never actually put pen to paper when you're out on location? Or maybe you've been sketching for a while, but you're just drawn to buildings and static objects, and you really want to add life and energy into your drawings, but you're not sure how to approach sketching people. Every time you struggle to capture the gesture of a figure, you find yourself abandoning the fluid mobs, and falling back to the measured drawing skills you already know, making it much more complex and detailed than it needs to be. And by that time, your subject gets up and moves away, or walks past you quickly. But you can get past this in your drawing. I want to show you how you can embrace those wobbly lines in your sketches, and loosening your style will still get to that stage where you've got…
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