Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences
A course by David Morales H.Architect and Illustrator
A course by David Morales H., Architect and Illustrator
Learn to use your sketchbook as an illustrated journal by exploring ink drawing with the cross-hatching technique
Ever wanted to illustrate your everyday experiences in a notebook? Transform your sketchbook into a time capsule with the capacity to store a never-ending amount of experiences and start illustrating everything around you under the expert guidance of architect and illustrator David Morales.
In this course, David teaches you to draw using the cross-hatching technique. Learn how to find inspiration from your everyday surroundings, encapsulating experiences and memories in your notebook by way of ink cross-hatching. Turn your notebook into a journal bursting with life.
What will you learn in this online course?
20 lessons & 27 downloads
Vital notebook concepts
6 minutes, 14 seconds
Materials and types of notebooks
8 minutes, 19 seconds
Crosshatching exploration
17 minutes, 22 seconds
Looking for inspiration in everyday objects
6 minutes, 13 seconds
Inked 1
14 minutes, 19 seconds
Series of small objects
18 minutes, 40 seconds
What's included in this course?
Start the course by getting to know architect David Morales, who talks about what the creations in his notebooks mean to him, his daily drawing routine, and where he normally finds inspiration.
Discover what a life sketchbook really is, what materials you need to illustrate in it every day and look at what the cross-hatching technique consists of by getting straight into a little warm-up exercise.
Find out how to draw from observation and by getting inspiration from everyday objects. Learn to convert your drawings to ink by cross-hatching with graphic pens.
Then, go one step further by illustrating scenes with family or pets, using a grid and working with vertical lines and the background color of the composition.
Next, get started on drawing places in your notebook. David talks about perspective, the rule of thirds, and using cross-hatching to create different tones, textures, and depth in your drawings.
Finally, look at how to add the final touches to your illustration, make your personal mark on it, and share drawings with your community. Now you can use all you've learned and illustrate your everyday life in your artist's sketchbook!
What is this course's project?
Create a daily journal in which you can illustrate your experiences over 30 days.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone interested in drawing, whether you have experience or not, and who wants to create notebooks full of unforgettable memories.
Requirements and materials
To take this course it isn't essential to have previous experience, just the desire to express yourself creatively in your everyday life.
In terms of materials, you need a notebook, a pencil, and graphic pens (technical pens).
Reviews
- 7 days ago
Un excelente curso para aprender el achurado, los valores y sombras, 100% recomendado.
- 1 month ago
Muy completo el curso
- 1 month ago
Very informative class
- 1 month ago
Grelts course
- 1 month ago
Cours extrèmement instructif et très agréable
In 2018, he started an art project called ""One Day One Drawing"" in which he depicts his surroundings, family, and concerns on a daily basis. He has also created book covers for the publishing house Planeta, Spain and for Taller Talante, Colombia.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Presentation
- Influences
- U2
The vital notebook
- Vital notebook concepts
- Materials and types of notebooks
- Crosshatching exploration
- U3
Inspiration and drawing
- Looking for inspiration in everyday objects
- Observation from relationships
- Inked 1
- Inked 2
- Series of small objects
- U4
Everyday scenes
- Familiar scenes
- Using Crosshatching Technique 1
- Crosshatching 2
- Color and vertical lines
- U5
The landscape that surrounds us
- Landscape and architecture
- Framing and rule of thirds
- Light and shadow 1
- Light and shadow 2
- Stamps and souvenirs
- Share
- FP
Final project
- Illustrated Diary: Fill Your Sketchbook with Experiences
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FAQs
You’ll learn crosshatching techniques, composition, architectural perspective, and how to capture everyday scenes in an illustrated sketchbook, plus how to personalize your work and share it on social media.
Yes, this course is designed for those who already have basic drawing skills and want to deepen their knowledge in techniques like crosshatching and advanced composition in illustrated sketchbooks.
You’ll need an A5 notebook or similar, a pencil (Blackwing recommended), calibrated markers, pens, optional watercolors, and stamps for details. It’s best to choose paper suited to the techniques you’ll be using.
You’ll learn to create shadows, volume, and texture by layering lines in different directions, using calibrated markers and pens to achieve tonal effects and depth.
Yes, the course covers drawing buildings and urban scenes as well as everyday architecture using perspective and observation techniques.
Yes, you’ll learn strategies for posting your sketches on Instagram and other platforms, plus tips for documenting and numbering your work to encourage daily practice.
Yes, the course includes creating life journals and travel sketchbooks, teaching you how to document experiences and everyday objects through drawing and writing.