Urban Sketching Syllabus
Read the Urban Sketching Syllabus to learn more about this Z Block Class
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Slide-folios
Example Student slide-folio
Slide-folio Assignment List-Link
Slide-folio Reflection
Resources
Urban Sketchers
Urban Sketcher Magazine-March 2022
Urban Sketching World -Beginner's Guide
Urban Sketchers Instagram
Urban Sketcher Magazine-March 2022
Urban Sketching World -Beginner's Guide
Urban Sketchers Instagram
Weekly Outline below:
WEEK 1-Composition Frames
Using a viewfinder for framing and composition
Step 1: Make a paper viewfinder with an index card or any firm paper (see the video tutorial below for steps). You do not have to use the floss like in the video.
Cheat tip: I use my phone camera as a viewfinder and will create simple compositions by zooming in. I use this image to help me sketch the main shapes and then use my observation to finish the drawing from life.
Step 2: Using a ruler and a pencil, map out 3-4 composition frames (like in the images below) on a piece of paper or in your sketchbook. Draw your frames before you attempt any drawing. Frames first!
Step 3: Either go outside or stay inside but hold up your viewfinder so you can see some simple compositions, or use your camera phone to zoom into interesting compositions. The viewfinder helps us just focus on the shapes and lines present in the chosen composition.
Step 4: Draw in pen if you have a pen OR draw in pencil and make the commitment not to erase. Draw slowly and if you make a mistake, embrace it and keep going.
Step 5: Add in some shaded areas so there's more of a balance of dark and light in each of your composition sketches. If you are using a pen for these drawings, make sure to use a sharpie to color in, as using the pen to fill in areas will dry it out really fast.
Cheat tip: I use my phone camera as a viewfinder and will create simple compositions by zooming in. I use this image to help me sketch the main shapes and then use my observation to finish the drawing from life.
Step 2: Using a ruler and a pencil, map out 3-4 composition frames (like in the images below) on a piece of paper or in your sketchbook. Draw your frames before you attempt any drawing. Frames first!
Step 3: Either go outside or stay inside but hold up your viewfinder so you can see some simple compositions, or use your camera phone to zoom into interesting compositions. The viewfinder helps us just focus on the shapes and lines present in the chosen composition.
Step 4: Draw in pen if you have a pen OR draw in pencil and make the commitment not to erase. Draw slowly and if you make a mistake, embrace it and keep going.
Step 5: Add in some shaded areas so there's more of a balance of dark and light in each of your composition sketches. If you are using a pen for these drawings, make sure to use a sharpie to color in, as using the pen to fill in areas will dry it out really fast.
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WEEK 2 & 3- SPACE: Foreground, Middle ground, Background
& VALUE: Hatching and Cross-hatching
Foreground/Middle ground/Background exercise
Materials needed: 3 different colored markers (1 color for foreground, 1 for middle ground, 1 for background)
Step 1: Watch the tutorial below demonstrating this drawing exercise
Step 2: Choose 3 different colored markers, one of each plane of space
Step 3: Use your phone to help you choose your composition, just like you did in last week's composition frames exercise.
TIP: Make sure you have an object or subject very close to you as the foreground. Sometimes it can be visually confusing if your foreground and middleground are too close together. Also, if you don't understand linear perspective, try to do less architectural forms as these can be very complicated.
Materials needed: 3 different colored markers (1 color for foreground, 1 for middle ground, 1 for background)
Step 1: Watch the tutorial below demonstrating this drawing exercise
Step 2: Choose 3 different colored markers, one of each plane of space
Step 3: Use your phone to help you choose your composition, just like you did in last week's composition frames exercise.
TIP: Make sure you have an object or subject very close to you as the foreground. Sometimes it can be visually confusing if your foreground and middleground are too close together. Also, if you don't understand linear perspective, try to do less architectural forms as these can be very complicated.
VALUES and SHADING / Hatching and Cross Hatching
What practice skills you should complete on a sketchbook page:
1. A 5 step value scale in pencil (if you've done this before, show me evidence please)
2. A gradient scale in pencil -no steps
3. A 5 step hatching value scale in pen
4. A gradient scale in pen using cross hatching in pen- no steps
1. A 5 step value scale in pencil (if you've done this before, show me evidence please)
2. A gradient scale in pencil -no steps
3. A 5 step hatching value scale in pen
4. A gradient scale in pen using cross hatching in pen- no steps
Drawing Assignment:
5. A drawing study showing value in graphite (pencil) with smooth gradient shading OR a pen with hatching/cross-hatching Resources for images: Hatching/Cross Hatching Met Museum-Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) Google Arts and Culture Smooth Pencil Shading: Met Museum-Greek collection Google Arts and Culture If you want me to print a zoom area for you, add your screenshot into this folder Artists who use crosshatching: Many printmakers, like famous Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada August Lamm Tommy Kane |
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Giorgio Morandi (Italian painter and printmaker)
WEEK 4 & 5: Watercolor
Link to the WATERCOLOR SKILL PRACTICE PAGE for more support
Beginner:
-2 value scales-7 steps (1 warm color, 1 cool color)
-Mark making-3 columns, 3 colors-showing a variety of marks and values
-2 value scales-7 steps (1 warm color, 1 cool color)
-Mark making-3 columns, 3 colors-showing a variety of marks and values
Intermediate:
-Mark making-3 columns, 3 colors-demonstrating a variety of marks and values
-Pattern showing color mixing and value variety-repeat a shape(geometric or organic) and fill it in with 1-3 colors showing a range of values
-Mark making-3 columns, 3 colors-demonstrating a variety of marks and values
-Pattern showing color mixing and value variety-repeat a shape(geometric or organic) and fill it in with 1-3 colors showing a range of values
Weekend HW
Choice 1: Drawing a tree from life. Choose a tree somewhere in your neighborhood where you can sit away from it to see the entire silhouette of the tree (maybe a tree across the street?)
Watch this first video as the artist explains different tree shapes and how to quickly hatch/cross-hatch shade them.
Tree demonstration video
If you want to add in a lot of detail into your tree, then watch this video below:
Advanced Tree demonstration video
Tree drawing resource-link
Choice 2: Draw a meal from life. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, at your house or out somewhere. Think about filling the page with the view of your table. Maybe it’s a subway sandwich, try to draw the paper wrapper the sandwich is sitting on. Maybe it’s a bowl of cereal for breakfast and a glass of OJ.
Watch this short video of Danny Gregory drawing breakfast:
https://youtu.be/8BGnqS6fF3A
Optional: Add watercolor on top of your pen drawing!
Watch this first video as the artist explains different tree shapes and how to quickly hatch/cross-hatch shade them.
Tree demonstration video
If you want to add in a lot of detail into your tree, then watch this video below:
Advanced Tree demonstration video
Tree drawing resource-link
Choice 2: Draw a meal from life. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, at your house or out somewhere. Think about filling the page with the view of your table. Maybe it’s a subway sandwich, try to draw the paper wrapper the sandwich is sitting on. Maybe it’s a bowl of cereal for breakfast and a glass of OJ.
Watch this short video of Danny Gregory drawing breakfast:
https://youtu.be/8BGnqS6fF3A
Optional: Add watercolor on top of your pen drawing!
helpful tutorials:
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Proportion and Sighting/ 1 & 2 Pt perspective
Value Pencil Demonstration |
Color pencil Demonstration |
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Sketchers to Inspire!
Each image will link you to an Urban Sketcher's instagram page