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Watercolor Urban Illustration: Portray your City

Offered By: Domestika

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Perspective Drawing Courses Sketching Courses

Course Description

Overview

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Master fineliner and watercolor to create captivating shop front illustrations. Learn perspective, shading and breathe life into your artwork.
  • Introduction
  • Getting Ready to Make an Illustration
  • Painting a Shopfront
  • The Final Details
  • Final project
Discover the enchanting world of urban watercolor illustration in this online course guided by Astrid, also known as Urban Anna. Urban life is teeming with hidden beauty, and through watercolors and fine liners, you'll learn to transform the mundane into the magical. This course is your ticket to unveiling the vibrant, artistic soul within you, even if you've never picked up a paintbrush before.

In this online course, you will explore the fundamentals of urban illustration, perspective, and shading. Astrid will reveal her unique techniques for working with watercolors, including the art of painting bricks and pavement. Together, you'll select a charming bookshop as your final project and bring it to life with expressive brushstrokes and vibrant colors.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • The Materials
  • Why Urban Illustration Never Gets Boring
  • Perspective and Shading
  • Working with Watercolor
  • Painting Brickwork and Pavement
  • Choosing a Shopfront
  • The Sketch Phase
  • Drawing with Fineliner
  • The Coloring Stage: Layering and Larger Surfaces 1
  • The Coloring Stage: Layering and Larger Surfaces 2
  • The Coloring Stage: Brickwall and Details
  • Finishing Touches
  • What’s Next?
  • Watercolor Urban Illustration: Portray your City

Taught by

Urban Anna

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