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Skills You’ll Learn
1, 2, and 3-Point Perspectives
Learn about the three different types of perspective and how to use them when drawing your own urban sketches.
Using Pens
Learn how to use various types of pens, from how to draw lines to how to add special finishing touches.
Using Watercolors
Learn about controlling concentration with watercolors, and using a brush and watercolors to realistically depict scenes.
Drawing People
Learn about the structure of the human body and how to use simple shapes to add life to your urban sketches.
Getting a Balanced Composition
Learn how to analyze scenes around you and use what you see to plan a drawing.
Drawing an Interior
Learn everything about drawing interiors, from how to depict indoor lighting to the ceiling, walls, and floor.
Hello, I’m Hyeongmi Ham
I create the background illustrations of animation movies and tv shows. I don't remember exactly how I got into urban sketching, but I think it was when I started looking and drawing photos I took on vacations. Since then, I have captured many small moments of my daily life, and my sketchbook is filled with precious memories.
Urban Sketching
Most people like to document their travels, usually in the form of a photo or a souvenir. Be different. Urban sketching is the perfect medium to capture breathtaking sights and emotions you feel in those special moments.
STEP 1. The Sketch
I’ll start by teaching you about the sketching process. Learn about 1,2, and 3-point perspective, and how to use it to sketch scenes. Just sketch the places where your feet reach, the things that catch your eyes. Each scene will come together, and it will be like a movie.
STEP 2. The Colors
Next you’ll learn how to fill in colors, one by one using watercolors. Learn about colors in creating value scales, and controlling the concentration of the paint. I’ll show you how colors can help you portray light and shadows, and create an illustration with all the small details.
STEP 3. The Background
Give your illustrations depth. Although drawing in perspective will help make your illustration look 3D, adding background colors and elements will make your urban sketches have depth. Learn how to use aerial perspective to add elements into your background.
STEP 4. The Composition
Composition can change the entire atmosphere of your illustrations. I’ll teach you how to place each element onto the page to create a balanced work of art that catches the eyes.
STEP 5. The People
Adding people can also bring a whole new look to your urban sketches. I’ll show you how to use simple shapes to sketch people, then use those shapes to draw figures in various poses. Then add people to your drawings to give them another interesting element and change the atmosphere.
Interior Sketches
Drawing an interior uses different techniques than your normal urban sketches. Even the ceiling, walls, and floor should be drawn differently. Learn how to use these new techniques to capture the warm interiors of cafes or hotels that you often encounter on your travels.
It Doesn’t Have to be Perfect
When I first started drawing, I worried about messing up and making mistakes so I couldn't draw properly. Because I spent so much time fixing mistakes and hesitating, it took a lot of time just to draw one illustration. I think many people struggle with the same thing. It took me a lot of time to overcome this fear, but the best way was to finish the drawing even if there are mistakes. After completing the illustration, small mistakes are not noticeable.
Sketching doesn't have to be perfectly refined. So draw freely. Capture the scenes that catch your eye.
- Below tools will be used during the class. You can also order the All-in-one package to elevate the learning experience. (The tools are picked together with the creator for the classmates.)
- Mungyo 12 Color Watercolor Palette with a 12-Half pan
- Hanemule Watercolor Book A5
- Liner 0.1, 0.5
- Signor White Pen 0.7
- Gekkoso Water brush (M/L)
- Watercolor Container
- Gekkoso Watercolor (Chrome Yellow Light, Scarlet, Chrome Red, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, chrome Green Deep, chrome Green Light, Yellow Ochre, Vandyke Brow)
📩 Packages are subject to change and students will be fully informed in such changes.
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Creator
Ham hyeongmi
Hello, I’m Hyeongmi Ham, an artist that captures any place your feet touch and your eyes see in my sketchbook.
I want to capture everyday moments with my sketchbook and pen.
For me, urban sketching is like capturing a scene from a movie because it stops a pretty moment in motion with one work of art. I wanted to freely draw those landscapes in a sketchbook. And I want to share my little hobby in the same way you watch good movies with your friends.
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