Sketching Street Scenes in Ink and Watercolor
Learn how to draw lively street scenes using one-point perspective and measuring techniques. Add details, shadows, and depth with ink and watercolor. Capture the essence of different locations like New York, France, and Italy. Perfect for beginning and intermediate artists.
What you’ll learn
- How to use one-point perspective and other measuring techniques to draw street scenes
- How to add details such as cars, people, trees, and lampposts
- How to add shadows and depth with ink and watercolor
- How to use watercolor to show light and texture
The best part of travel sketching is capturing lively, bustling street scenes, whether it’s a big city like New York or a small village in Europe.
To do that quickly and accurately, it helps to have a grasp of the basics of perspective.
In this class, we’ll work on simple one-point perspective with New York as our model.
Then we’ll go to France and look at a village scene where those rules of perspective have to be tweaked to handle a sloping, winding road and a jumble of buildings that are lined up in a row.
Finally, we’ll go to Italy and work on adding just enough detail to really capture all the elements that make a scene so compelling.
Using pencil, ink, and watercolor, we’ll work on:
Perspective
Light and shadow
Varying line weights
Differences in color and shading in the foreground and background
What details to focus on, what to simplify, and what to leave out entirely
By the end of this class, you’ll have all the skills you need to incorporate lively street scenes into your sketchbook practice, when you travel and also in your own neighborhood.
Who this course is for:
- Beginning and intermediate artists
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