Tag: Building Sketch
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
