Bucharest, Romania
Laurie Mouret
Self-taught, I discovered urban sketching around 2012, first by keeping a travel journal where I mixed drawings on location and from photos, then by deliberately looking for places to go and draw for the simple pleasure of drawing a place and people. I see urban sketching as a diary of the little moments that make up everyday life.
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Workshop Language: French (English, and Romanian and German for very basic questions)
When it comes to drawing people, many draw according to their idea of a person's characteristics, rather than really paying attention to what makes that person unique. My workshop aims to lay the foundations for good observation and analysis of what makes each person unique, and then to cover techniques for sketching the people around us in a recognizable way, with a clear and precise style.
Key skills:
- Define the key characteristics of the people you're drawing: analyze what makes a person unique (their posture, their clothing, their profile, their facial expression...) to know what to focus on when sketching.
- Draw patiently: subjects sometimes move a lot, and you can wait a few minutes until they return to the pose you started sketching. These intervals are perfect for sketching the elements around the subject, its environment, and thus having a sketch of a subject in context.
- Sketch clean, applied lines: draw each element in a single, clean line, without going back over it, even if the line isn't to your taste. Precision will come as observation sharpens.
Suggested material:
- Pen type brush pen or 0.8 MINIMUM (to force simplification)
- Sketchbook
