From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
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Urban sketching vs. landscape sketching
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
Urban sketching vs. landscape sketching
(gentle violin music) - Highlighting a few key differences between your approach to sketching a landscape and urban sketching can really help to strengthen your drawings. And the first element to really be aware of is figures. In urban sketching you can use figures to your advantage in your drawings. And because we know the scale of a human figure, then your sketch always sits in relationship to this scale, so adding figures into your drawings can be the easiest way to get an idea of the scale of the scene that you're drawing and the atmosphere of the city. The next element is the composition and the perspective. And landscape compositions will usually work best within a landscape format. So you can get a really nice sense of calming space, horizontal lines, and a really pleasing flow. And often you're looking for gentle angled diagonal lines that just lead the viewer's eye into the scene. in urban sketches the framework of your drawings are usually based on vertical lines, and the…
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