Project 5 – Urban Buildings
I was very excited for Project 5 to come as I like doodling houses. There is something about simple shapes forming cute houses and I like to skip any perspective or proportions just for fun. I tend to imagine what sort of people would live there and what life they would have, as there is a story behind every house..
This week project was split into 2 main parts and one further idea:
![sketch of building in tokyo](https://katvyletalstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Sa5-main-1024x1024.jpg)
Part1 & 2 – Downtown Tokyo
The photo for this exercise was provided by @non_sugar25. Part 1 was creating a building skeleton in 3 point perspective with ink directly without any initial pencil sketch.
Part 2 was focusing on filling the ink sketch with watercolours. I used Inktense pan paint for the first time on this which I shouldn’t have. I was not familiar with paints and colour mixing was close to a nightmare. Note to myself – always but always do some simple warm up exercises to get to know paints you are planning to use.
Part 3 – Bonus: More Urban Sketching
There were four additional photos of various houses to choose from for the extra practise. I decided to experiment with Royal Talens Designers gouache for the Pink House and Rembrandt watercolours for the rest. The white house was the best as I could barely see anything but still wanted to put far too many details there.
![sketches of three houses](https://katvyletalstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Sa5-bonus-1024x1024.jpg)
This week summary
- when dealing with perspective, it is a good idea to do a very simple sketch of the overall shape in pencil and then in ink
- watercolour makes ink work look muddy as pigment covers the ink. It is much better to do coloring first and then add ink work to preserve the blackness of ink
- using the “Artistic license” and tweaking the reality showing in photos is more fun
- is good to have a colour pallette in mind up front
- first sketch was meant to be done in a very loose style – this is not for me as I don’t like it and every time I look at it I see chaos and mess (funny enough, my hubby likes it the best)
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