Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
A course by Inma Serrano , Illustrator
Learn to portray the passage of time and sketch your surroundings with in-situ drawing
Learn to portray the passage of time and sketch your surroundings with in-situ drawing
What if you could freeze time in your sketchbook? In this online course, illustrator Inma Serrano teaches you how to capture the beauty of fleeting moments during a walk through your city on paper.
Take to the streets with Inma and learn how to illustrate motion through gesture drawing. Break the rules by stretching the limits of perspective and explore your creativity to develop your personal style.
What will you learn in this online course?
15 lessons & 23 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (349)
- 6,734 students
- 15 lessons (2h 19m)
- 23 additional resources (7 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Sketch an everyday urban scene portraying the passage of time.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone interested in opening their mind to new forms of expression and drawing.
Requirements and materials
No prior knowledge is required.
As for materials, you need a notebook, coated watercolor paper (at least 300 GSM), and all the items you want to experiment with, such as watercolor pans, ink, colored pencils, pens or calibrated markers, watercolor pens, acrylic markers, etc.
Reviews
A course by Inma Serrano
Inma Serrano combines her job as a drawing teacher with professional illustration work, regularly collaborating on projects for the press and illustrating novels, stories, poems, and more. She's been sketching everyday urban life for more than 20 years, compiling her illustrations in sketchbooks that go wherever she does. Her notebooks of city sketches have traveled across Europe as part of exhibitions in England, France, Italy, and Portugal.
She's created illustrations for a range of publishers like Yacaré, Gustavo Gili, and Planeta, and her work has been published in La Vanguardia and through Oxfam Intermón. Inma passes on her love of art and illustration to her students as a secondary school teacher while sharing her passion with a broader audience through drawing workshops she holds around the world.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Warm-Up
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My Materials
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Graphic Language
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Humanize Architecture
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Visual Tours
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U3
Draw the Movement
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Human Calligraphy
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Sequence and Repetition
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Overlapping and Sweeping
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Other Ways to Draw the Passage of Time
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U4
Develop an Urban Illustration
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Choice of Point of View
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Composition, Colors, and Volumes
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Visual Tours: Application
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From Approach to Detail
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On-Site Drawing
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FP
Final project
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Urban Sketching: Capture Your City in Motion
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fpeu
Wonderful course. Helped me to lose my fear of drawing in the wild. Muchas Gracias! :)
eva
Estupendo curso, muy bien explicado.
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giuliamangione1
I really enjoyed this course. It's liberating and challenging at the same time to try and draw so carefree and without trying to be perfectionists. I think Irma is really good at pushing us to draw everywhere and all the time and not be afraid to make mistakes or ugly drawings: they are part of the process too.
bebert
C'est la première fois que je prends un cours en ligne. Je le trouve très bien construit. Utile pour se décomplexer, le premier travail sur soi à faire en dessin. J'aime le style d'Inma Serrano, très coloré, riche de techniques variées. Elle me donne envie de goûter à d'autres outils que mes Micron et ma palette d'aquarelles. L'idée des tâches de couleurs avant de dessiner n'est pas nouvelle mais parfaitement mise en scène.
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gisela_beliu
PlusTodo súper claro. Estaba muy insegura cuando comencé porque hace mucho que no dibujaba pero su humildad y sencillez me hicieron sentir tan cómoda para soltarme a la línea. Mis hijas pequeñas me acompañaron en los vídeos e hicieron maravillas. El material adjunto fue riquísimo! Muy útil. Las técnicas geniales.Gracias Inma!
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