Subject: Travel sketching on location | Fun, fast techniques
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 01:39:58 -0800 (PST)

Capture the Energy & Excitement of Travel in Spontaneous Sketches | View Online

Capture the Energy & Excitement of Travel in Spontaneous Sketches
Whether you have just a few minutes to jot lines, or a half hour to make a small watercolor, learn to capture your surroundings in stunning, spontaneous sketches. Join me, professional artist Marc Taro Holmes, for my online Craftsy class, Travel Sketching in Mixed Media, and learn fun, fast and flexible techniques for sketching on location.

In this class, you'll learn expressive drawing techniques I've developed over years of traveling the world and sketching as I go. I'll guide you through everything from elegant, observational sketches in line, to bold silhouette drawings with a brush pen, watercolor sketching and layering techniques and more.
Along the way, you'll also pick up skills for visual storytelling, perspective drawing and more.

In our first lesson, we'll cover the basic, lightweight materials that will help you sketch successfully on the go. Next, I'll teach you how to create a single–line sketch quickly and easily. Before we move on, you'll see how to add darks to your work to create contrast and dimension.

We'll move on to techniques for using a brush pen to draw like a painter. I'll demonstrate this method as I depict a car by working in tone and shape. Once you're comfortable with these techniques, I'll help you use them to render more complex shapes and scenes in water–soluble ink.

Bring your line drawing to life as I teach you how to introduce watercolors to your travel sketches. We'll talk about how to add watercolors by breaking scenes into shapes, charging for smooth color transitions and using the wet–in–wet technique to build washes of soft, beautiful hues.

In our next lesson, I'll give you tips for using your sketchbooks to tell stories about your travels. We'll also talk about how to create a visual travel log of your journey by
thinking like a documentary filmmaker.

Reach a new level of sketching confidence as I teach you three strategies for making perspective sketches painless. You'll learn how to neutralize the angle of a scene or simplify the details to make it easier to draw. We'll also talk about how you can approximate perspective for scenes such as a city street.

Then, you'll build some essential skills for watercolor sketching. I'll give you tips that will help you visualize basic shapes and how they relate to each other. You'll see how adding paint to your negative space can make focal points stand out. We'll even discuss charging techniques for bringing a spectacular level of detail to your work.

In our final lesson, I'll show you how to layer watercolors to create sophisticated sketches. We'll talk about
planning a successful composition so you can add midtones on paint for an eye–catching effect. We'll also go over how to add beautiful details and finishing touches that will complement your painting.

Enroll in Travel Sketching in Mixed Media, and learn pen, ink and watercolor techniques for capturing your surroundings in foreign cities or on day trips close to home.

I'm a sketchbook artist and
plein–air painter who works in ink, watercolor and oils. Since 2009, I've been a correspondent for the international website of reportage artists, Urban Sketchers.

I'm also the author of The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location published by North Light Books. And for 15 years, I enjoyed a career as an art director and concept artist in the video game industry, working for studios such as Microsoft, Electronic Arts and Disney.

Sketch moments from your travels with mixed media techniques for creating compelling scenes quickly and beautifully.

Get started with Travel Sketching in Mixed Media for only $19.99

— that's 50% off! Just add the class to your cart to apply the discount.

Marc Taro Holmes | Craftsy Instructor

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