House sketching tutorial for beginners
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2022
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Urban sketching, house sketching or travel journaling is rightly having a moment, but how do you get started? Perhaps someone has asked you to draw a portrait of their house - where do you start? In this short film, I show you how I would sketch my home in pen and wash. It's not perfect, the lines are wonky, but does it capture the feel of the place? The question is, does it feel like home?
I am drawing in a Moleskine A5 sketch book, but you can use any paper or book you like. Just remember if you plan to add some watercolour it must be able to stand up to it. I start off with a Uniball Eye pen and then use a fineliner 0.2mm. But again, use what you have. If you plan to put any water on top, make sure it is waterproof. A splash of colour applied with a waterbrush, is as close to how I would be painting 'out in the wild'. If I were sitting outside, rather than in my studio, I would keep all equipment to a minimum and just use what I had to hand. I also show you how you could use grey watercolour brush pens if you want to add tone and shadow. The ones I am using are the WHSmith version of the famous Tombow pen. You don't need them - again just use what you have.
We will work in layers, making sure each is dry in between and in total it took about 25 minutes. The photo I worked from is in the community tab of my channel. Please feel free to use it if you want and tag me @lizchaderton on social media if you share the results, as I'd love to see what you do!
This is the follow up to my sketch of my neighbour's house from months ago (where does time go?). You can see it here: • How to begin urban ske...
If you fancy making a sketch book, here are some ideas: • How to make a watercol... or • How to make a watercol...
If you want to know about the dual tip watercolour brush pens, take a look here: • Tombow or WHSmith Dual...
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If you are interested in more in depth training, I have a great line and wash course over at www.lizchadertonstudio.co.uk and have written a book too 'Line and wash painting' published by The Crowood Press ISBN: 9781785009914. And don't forget I have a lovely Facebook group to share ideas, art and tips - do join us: / 694706731930461
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you really took out the intimidation from sketching and wash! Thanks (:
I'm so glad!
Your voice is so calming and soothing that I started drifting off just a bit, I was enjoying this so much that it calmed me down so much, I needed that! Thank you! ❤️🫵
I'm so glad! I listen to my voice and it sounds boring to me, so ‘calm’ is lovely
Thank u so much for sketching this out in real time. I’m a beginner and this really helps me! 👍🏽
Glad it was helpful!
Beautiful 🙏
thank you so much 😊
Like and subscribed. Great encouragement and techniques.
Welcome and thanks for subscribing
Nicely done, Liz....keep using the best paper you can....I do and it's more fun....shading can easily be done with a light w/c wash of dark color.
agreed that decent paper makes a huge difference. But equally, I am keen people don’t put off having a go just because they don’t have the ‘right’ stuff 😊
Really like your comments and technique. 8:30 am
thank you!
Great tutorial thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Happy New Year Liz! Thank you for your great tutorials. Definitely having a go at this. All best wishes for 2023.
Same to you! look forward to seeing what you do
Wishing you an excellent 2023 with lots of fun times, much joy and good health. Loved the pace and inspiration (as always) for showing how to create character with urban sketching. Looking forward to seeing what you produce this year! Thank you for all your time and hard work in giving us all such delight and instruction in 2022. Have a good week and take care.
Thank you so much Cate! Happy new year to you too!
Thanks for that, especially adding the pens into the picture, it really made the little extras into it
Glad you liked it!
this sketch makes clear what very fond feelings you have towards your house! the second round of pen marks added so much character and interest. this makes me want to paint my own house. thanks so much for a wonderful demonstration.
I do love our house!
Hi Liz, very new subscriber here 😁 I'm thinking of giving urban sketching a go. Hopped on the youtube and found your channel. Love your content! Thank you for sharing. Have a nice day.
welcome! urban sketching is such fun. I can be easier with others, so look on Facebook for a local sketch group to motivate you
I can't believe someone would criticize you for using a certain brand of sketch book, or ANYTHING> Ignore them. THAKK you for dmaking these videos for FREE> You rock!!!!
you are very kind! thank you 😁 And I don’t take criticism to heart and sometimes it is true…
Great tune!,, thank you for your time and energy to help us! Happy new year!,
Happy new year!
You’ve created another terrific video. Thank you. I can watch your videos over & over again. Such great approachable instruction done in a fun manner. I’m looking forward to the next episode!
That’s so nice to hear. Thank you!
Thank you very much for this tutorial!!! ❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
Thank you Liz for sharing your sketching this really helps me as a beginner
You are so welcome!
Happy New Year. Thank you for all the tips. Looking forward to 2023 videos.
Happy new year!
Happy New Year Liz and thank you for this wonderful demo. I always get mind boggled by perspective when trying to draw buildings but you make it look so easy. Lovely house.
glad you enjoyed it. Am hoping to do a ‘how to measure and draw’ film in the next few weeks which I hope will be useful!
Thanks for sharing this Liz. I'm just starting out and find your style very inspiring.
Thank you. The best advice I can give is practice, practice, practice 😊
Very helpful, no stress fun sketching! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This has really inspired me Liz - thank you so much! It gives me the freedom top not worry so much about getting the drawing perfect, which as a total beginner I am not very good at some I'm looking forward to your "how to draw and measure" film!
perfection is really over rated 😳
Dear Liz, This is brilliant. I love your loose and splashy style. I’ll try this myself!
thank you! Hope you have fun with it
Beautiful!
thank you!
❤❤❤
Thank you!
Lovely Liz. Very Inspirational. Doing my house now.
Wonderful! would love to see it!
I really enjoyed seeing you work on this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your house! 😊
I'm so glad!
This is wonderful. I can't wait to try this one as well. Happy New Year!
Happy new year! would love to see what you do!
Beautiful!!
Thank you! 😊
This was lovely to watch. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi just found your videos had to say just love them what I’ve seen.
Glad you like them!
Really enjoy your video's. Thank you and Happy New Year!
Happy new year! And thank you
Hello! I am new here. Good job 👍 keep it up
Thanks and welcome
Thank you for sharing your work, Liz. I think it would be great if you showed the reference constantly as the viewers would be able to see and learn how you simplify certain details and what lines you keep and what you leave out. ☺️
Thank you for the suggestion. It's tricky as some people find it distracting and some like it! I get both comments. I always put the photo on the community page in case people want a go.
@@LizChadertonArt Thank you.
nice work, loose and relaxed.....
Many thanks!
I really like the way that turned out. Very nice👍🏻🙂
Thank you! 😊
I always say “sticky out bits” too Liz 😄. Lovely painting.
I have a good friend who is an architect, so I always feel a little guilty!
@@LizChadertonArt My husband is a carpenter but somehow he always seems to know what I mean even though I’ve heard him use the correct terminology loads of times.
@@elainetyrrell4669 that’s a good sign. He must be great with clients
Hi Liz, thank you for a great tutorial. Just for the person who crtisised your purchase, I bought a moleskien on Amazon pretty cheaply.
Ooh, I'd forgotten about that!! What's expensive to one person is cheap to another, so I have learnt that I cannot keep everyone happy 😀
Oh so true, Liz 😄@@LizChadertonArt
I live in a mind-bogglingly beautiful medieval hill town in central Italy, jammed with gorgeous 13th c. stone buildings and I haven't yet worked up the nerve to get out into town and the little stair-streets and draw it. Maybe I should try doing a few from photos first. Don't know why I'm scared to try.
Invite me over and I will come sketching with you 😆 Seriously, can you find a sketching buddy? start in a cafe, with your back to the wall. chose a comfy spot where people can’t look over your shoulder even if it’s not the best view. It sounds amazing.
As a beginner this is very helpful. It’d be great if you could put the photo in the corner so we could see it whilst you’re sketching. No idea how you do that!😁🤷🏼♀️
Thanks for the feedback. I do in some films, the trouble is it can obscure the sketch. I always put the reference photo on the community tab of my channel so you can download it to use.
Hello Liz, I really love your sketch colouring and all.
I have a question for you , what do you think makes the difference in having a drawing look like yours instead of having one that seems to be drawn by a five years old child?
I am a very beginner but I don't understand what is missing for me to achieve something that looks a bit more like an adult drawing.
Thank you for your help 🙏
Wrong message to wrong person Apologies Liz ! I enjoyed your work , many thanks!
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It's funny because a Moleskine Sketchbook is actually pretty inexpensive. And the paper is very lightweight, warps with watercolor and most artists don't use them anymore. They are very inexpensive. Look at the perfect Sketchbook by etchr for instance. These people need to just bite the bullet and realize that better quality the paper the better their sketches will look. And most of all the easier it will be for them to complete their process. Be brave. Be bold.
I agree wholeheartedly, and funnily enough I did a review of Etchr watercolour sketchbook a few weeks back. Personally I like to make my own….
Because I’m new at all of this, esp, I’m no c omfortable with a high price sketch book like etchr, for fear of ruining a page, moleskin is not cheap for someone like me, cheaper o Canson is a good practice paper, even copy paper for warm up. Just a different point of view I guess?
@@mollygilfillan6551 The quality of your paper makes a big difference to the outcome if using watercolour. If you try watercolour on copy paper it will cockle really badly. Having said that, I encourage people to use whatever they have and not to put off painting because they haven’t got a certain supply. Canson will work perfectly for this type of urban sketching. Making your own book works out cheaper than buying and is very satisfying
There is nothing that ruins your work faster than crap paper and a moleskin notebook is inexpensive and handy🙄🤓
agreed, paper makes a big difference, but I don’t want to put people off having a go waiting to get the ‘perfect’ book 😊
I did this with you watching and I loved it learned lots so thank you Liz 😊 I will tag you on insta so you can see my sketch
ooh, I look forward to seeing that!