Tag: Building Sketch
Greek Island Travel Sketches of Street Scenes using Ink and Watercolour to Fine-Tune a Travel Sketching Style
Scouring the internet for iconic but not twee photographs that I can use as reference to practice some ink and wash Greek Island postcard sketches using loose lines and watercolour.
Street Scene Sketches in Toulouse
Even though I had a week at the USk symposium in Toulouse, I only got around to sketching three buildings. The rest of the time I sketched people, and attended workshops.
Toulouse Urban Sketcher’s Symposium Workshop with Richard Briggs – Unfolding Visions
My second workshop at the Toulouse Urban Sketcher’s Symposium with Richard Briggs which was all about sketching narrow street views. We did warm up exercises using continuous line to capture shapes, outlines, and edges.
Loose Urban Sketch of a Local Street Scene
Urban sketch of a building in Conceição de Tavira Urban Sketching a Street Scene On the way back home from…
Sketching a Toulouse Street Scene to experiment with tonal shading, saturation, and line weight to emphasis depth and focal point
A step by step approach to adding tonal shading, adjusting saturation, and emphasising lines to add depth to a Toulouse street scene sketch, and create a strong focal point.
Loose Building Sketch in Santa Luzia and a Critique of it
Sketch of a building and street scene in Santa Luzia next to Tavira. Used loose Ink lines and watercolour application to create a dynamic sketch. And evaluated what aspects of the sketch worked, and what improvements I could make to future building sketches.
Urban Sketching Street Scenes in Tavira
Urban Sketching day out in Tavira sketching Tavira Public Gardens. Take a deep dive into how I planned the composition using the L-shaped layout, and how to create dynamic skies. I also sketched one of the town’s many churches and tested how to use water-soluble ink to create shadow area.
How to Create A Vignette when Urban Sketching Buildings
I use the definition of a vignette from well-known urban sketchers to figure out how to improve my building sketches. I evaluate a recent vignette urban sketch of a church that wasn’t successful, and a couple of other urban sketches that were.
DTIYS Compilation November 29th
A roundup of the Draw This In Your Style challenges I attempted this week including a couple of floral adorned buildings.
Loose Sketching in London
Putting Perdo Lureiro’s sketching tips into practice on a couple of sketches I did during my trip to London. Loose ink and watercolour sketches of Borough Market and Tower Bridge. Leaving out more than I put in.
Tavira-area Scenes in Ink and Watercolour
A collection of my ink and watercolour sketches of Tavira and the surrounding areas in the East Algarve in Portugal.
Day 41-45 of The 100 Day Project
45 days into my 100 day Project and I’m putting what I’ve learnt so far, into my 15-minute building sketches.
Day 31-40 of The 100 Day Project
40 days into my 100 day Project and I’m putting what I’ve learnt so far, into my 15-minute building sketches.
Day 11-15 of The 100 Day Project
15 days into my 100 day Project and I’m learning how to improve my 15-minute building sketches.
Day 1-5 of The 100 Day Project
5 days into my 100 day Project and I’m learning how to improve my 15-minute building sketches.
Random Urban Sketches to end the year
It doesn’t matter what subject or object you draw. It’s all good practice. Here’s a random selection of mine.
Street Scene – Conceicao
I painted the same scene in two styles—Wobbly urban sketch and precise studio sketch.
Travel Sketches from my Workaway Trip to Cambodia
A collection of travel sketches from Cambodia that I did a couple of years after the trip, using photos I took during our Workaway adventures. Ink sketches of buildings, people, beaches, and
