Location
Calle las Damas
Instructors
Miguel Herranz
Swasky
Workshop description
Not every subject on the scene has the same importance for you. The success of a sketch is not only a question of composition or framing, it involves some way of guiding the viewer through the drawing, underlining and emphasizing some subjects and leaving the others as just an atmosphere for the whole environment. In our workshop, we would show you the different ways we follow to achieve that goal.
Learning goals
Our first aim is to give participants some immediate and simple ways to experiment that the same scene can be very different depending on the different points of attention, and on the way these points are emphasized.
Once they have experimented these possibilities, our second objective is to help them decide the points of attention and how to establish that hierarchy graphically.
Workshop flow
First part
Experiment (1 hour.) Every participant will receive a pack of 4-5 copies of a very loose sketch of the environment in which we will make the workshop. The drawing represented will be a very simple and flat scheme of the area. On this step we don’t want to lose time on the first rough of the drawing, we want to make the students pass straight to the further step: underlining.
Participants will receive a list of 4-5 concepts concepts (for example: monument, cars, people at the bar, main building, trees) and another list of 4-5 techniques (line thickness, coloring just with black masses, coloring with black and 2 levels of grey, 3 colors no matter which, full color). The participants will make a correspondence between one point on the first list with one point on the second, then apply this to each one of the copies received.
2nd Part
Making decisions (2 hours.) On the second part the students will make 1-2 drawings starting from a white sheet and focusing on making decisions about the main points of interest and the way this points must be underlined.
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| By Swasky |
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| By Swasky |
"Since I got involved in the Urban Sketchers movement, things that have happened to me have been wonderful. I started again drawing more and more, and I rediscovered why I draw when I was I child."—Swasky
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| By Miguel Herranz |
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| By Miguel Herranz |
"I love mostly the line, which I use to make with a calligraphic fountain pen. Then I use to put simple coloring with watercolor. I love to write about the scene I draw, text is very important for me."—Miguel Herranz
