Article · Doodlewash
Shape-First For A Quick Urban Sketch
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2020
About this lesson
Urban sketcher Suhita Shirodkar demonstrates a shape-first approach to sketching a moving street scene, painting large simplified shapes first in wet-in-wet color before adding shadow shapes and line work.
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