From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching

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Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pencil sketch

Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pencil sketch

From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching

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Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pencil sketch

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- Now we've learnt the importance of vertical lines that form a simple framework to your sketches. We can add the same principles to a more complicated scene. For this scene, I wanted to keep a softness and character to the buildings and reflect the more romantic feel of the lanes. So, I'm going to be using a light pencil and a cream watercolor paper that's got this lovely, smooth finish to it, and this is known as a hot pressed watercolor paper. Because the paper has got this lovely cream hue, which for this particular view, matches the cream color that has been painted onto the building here, and also it matches other areas within the view down the street. I mean, this means that already, just by having the paper this color, I'm one step closer to being able to capture this scene. And the pencil's going to be perfect for all this lovely texture here on the side of the building in the brickwork, and there's quite a lot of nice, subtle shades of lights and darks. It hasn't just got…

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