6 Days of Urban Sketching With Three Easy Steps

1. Welcome to the Class: Whenever I travel, I always make sure that I carry my sketchbook with myself. If I observe any building element which can be sketched and painted, I will start with a basic sketch and paint it with watercolors in an abstract manner. In this class, we are going on a journey to six days of urban sketching with three easy steps of painting. The three basic steps are sketching, inking, and painting, and we're going to use a minimal color palette using the medium of watercolors. Hey everybody, myself, Ruthwick Patel, I'm a self taught independent artist and an interior designer by profession. In this class, we're going to create six beautiful paintings based on urban sketching. The class is absolutely suited for beginners and also intermediate and advanced level artists can try it as someone who's very much passionate about teaching. My major focus is always to create classes for beginners who are trying to develop their skills on a regular basis. I personally love to explore different art mediums and styles and not stick to one particular thing. If you're joining me, you'll find a variety of classes that I create. We are going to start by understanding all the six class projects in detail. No need to worry at all. It includes three basic steps of creating. We're going to talk about all the art supplies that you will need for the entire class. Before starting with the class, we are going to understand the color palette that we're going to use. It is going to be a very minimal color palette. We're going to have a simple practice session in which we are going to understand the elements and how to paint them in detail. So we're going to have three simple steps, which basically includes basic sketching using a pencil, then applying some black ink to the entire sketch to create some depth and details. Then we're going to use the medium of watercolors to apply some beautiful colors to the entire sketch. Don't worry about perfection. Urban sketching is all about creating rough and random sketches and painting them with some beautiful colors all over. You're definitely going to enjoy the entire process of creating. By the end of the class, you'll be having six beautiful class projects based on urban sketching without any delay. Grab your art supplies and join me on this creative journey. 2. Details About the Class Projects: Hey everybody. So before we start with the class, let me give you all the details about the class projects that we're going to create. No need to worry at all. There are going to be some basic and simple painting techniques that we're going to include in all the six class projects that we're going to create. One thing that I would like to tell you all is that no need to worry about the output and painting it in the exact same way I'm painting. You can definitely explore, create your own composition of the paintings as well. Just enjoy the process, observe all the details carefully, and then you can follow on the class projects. So let me take you towards the class projects so that you can get an exact idea of what we're going to create in the entire class. As you can observe, I have placed all my six class projects on the desk surface. I'll be giving you the details one by one. Let me take the first class project. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I have named this particular class project as The Castle. You can observe that we have created this on a horizontal format. It's a simple six size watercolor paper. There is a basic sketch of the entire castle in the bottom portion and a huge structure in between as well. We will start with a basic sketch using a pencil, then we will apply black ink. There's a combination of green and blue color in this particular class project. Now let me take you towards the next class project, which is named as the dome. In this particular class project, you can observe that I have created it in a vertical format. There's going to be a beautiful structure, having a huge dome in between. You can observe a beautiful color combination and a nice abstract background as well. We're also going to add some nice text In every class project, you're free to write anything that is convenient to you. This particular class project is again, in a vertical format, and I have named it as a vintage house. You can observe all the details carefully. There is a beautiful house with a beautiful window and some beautiful abstract background. Then comes one of my favorite class project, which is a nice window. There is going to be a detailed window in the entire vertical format. There is going to be some nice plantation in the left hand portion, a beautiful fence, and an abstract background. No need to worry at all. There are going to be three simple steps in which we are going to create all the six class projects. Then comes another class project, which is the lantern. You can observe a beautiful lantern in the center portion. Again, this is in a vertical format, some beautiful leaves around and a basic structure in the background. In every class project, you can observe these beautiful random strokes, rough color patches. No need to worry about perfection in any of the class projects. Then comes the last class project, which is The Palace. In this particular class project, we have used the horizontal format. There is a beautiful color combination and an abstract background all over. There are going to be a lot of rough and random strokes that we're going to create using black ink. Then we're going to apply water colors in a very random manner. I would like to tell you all that. No need to worry about perfection also. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I have painted. You can create your own combination. You can create your own collection of these beautiful urban sketches as well. I hope that you got an exact idea of all the six class projects that we're going to create in this particular class. Now let us move towards the next part. 3. Art Supplies: Hey everybody. Before we start with the class, let me give you all the details about the art supplies that we are going to use. No need to worry at all in case you're missing out on any particular art supply. You'll find it very easily in any nearby local art store or you can go for any other good alternative as well. As you can observe, I have placed all my art supplies on the desk surface in a systematic manner. Let us understand all the art supplies one by one so that you can get an exact idea of what all art supplies you will need before starting with the class. The first art supply is a simple spray bottle that we're going to use to lose the watercolors and we're also going to use it to create a beautiful abstract background in the class projects. Then comes the next art supply, which is a simple glass container in which we are going to take some clear water. It basically helps us to clean the brushes and use water wherever required in the entire class project. Since we are going to use a simple pencil for basic sketching, that's why a simple eraser and a sharpener, it would be helpful to sharp the pencil and erase the sketch in case required. Then next up we have a simple tissue paper which we will use to dab the brushes to remove excess amount of water and color if required. It's always good to keep a tissue paper site by whenever you're painting. Now comes the most important part, which is the watercolors that we're going to use. No need to worry at all. It is going to be a very minimal color palette that we're going to use in all the six class projects. Let me give you the details. As you can observe, these are watercolor tubes. We have light green, deep green, cadmium orange, celine blue, teal and black. These are the basic colors that you will need. I have placed them in my simple color palette, where I have all the colors here and some mixing space as well. You can use a simple color palette as well. Also, no need to worry about getting the exact shade of the colors that I have showed you. You can go for any other good alternative as well. In fact, you can make your own color combination and create your own color palette as well. Then I have a simple masking tape right in front of you, which we are going to use to place the paper on the desk surface that it will not move while we are painting. Here is one of our class project which is in a vertical format. There is also going to be class project in a horizontal format as well. Let me give you the details of the watercolor paper. These are watercolor paper of size 6.300 GSM. You have to make sure that you use a 300 GSM watercolor paper because it will have a good thickness and you can apply heavy washes of color and water on it. Then comes the brush that we are going to use. It is really amazing that for the entire class, you will need a single brush, which is a round brush of size seven. Then next up I have two simple markers and a single pen which is going to be blue as you can observe, There is going to be a simple pen that I'm going to use to add some text in our class projects. You can use any other good alternative as well. It is completely fine. Then I have a simple calligraphy pen. It is basically a marker only, which is black. And it is having a thick tip. As you can observe, wherever we want a thick stroke of solid black color, we're going to use this particular pen. And then I have a simple marker from Faber Castle. And it is going to have a thin tip. As you can observe, you don't have to worry about the brand. It is completely fine. You can go for any other good alternative as well. Also, in case you want to use a different color pen rather than blue pen, it is completely fine. You're free to experiment. Then I have a simple pencil that we're going to use to draw a basic sketch before we start inking. Let me take you towards two of the class projects so that you can observe the way you're going to create one project in a horizontal format, another one in a vertical format. These are the basic art supplies that you will need to create all the six beautiful class projects. As I told you, no need to worry about getting the exact art supply that I'm having right now. You can go for any other good alternative as well, or you'll find it very easily in any nearby local art store. Now let us move towards the next part. 4. Color Palette: Hey everybody. Now let us understand the color palette that we're going to use. Before starting with the class projects, let me give you the details about the watercolor tubes that we're going to use. It's basically going to be a very minimal color palette. The first one is deep green, light green, cerreline blue, teal, cadmium orange, and black. These are basic six colors that we're going to use to create all the six class projects. No need to worry at all. In case you do not have the exact shade, you can go for any other good alternative as well. In fact, you can create your own color combination as well. In my practice sheet, I have just simply labeled all the colors. In the topmost portion, we're going to apply the colors one by one. I'll be using my round brush of size seven. Now the reason behind applying the colors to the paper is so that you can understand the exact application of the color onto the watercolor paper. You can observe in this particular class project, the combination of colors that we are going to use together. One thing that you can keep in mind while using water colors is that the color that you apply initially onto the paper will definitely get one shade lighter. When it dries up, it basically decreases the saturation of the color. You have to create a nice combination of water and color together. Let us start with Celine Blue. In my color palette, you can observe I'm already having the colors. I'll just add a little bit of water to loose in the color. Now, once you think that you have created a nice combination of color and water together, just apply a small patch of the color just above the labeling that you have given. This basically also helps you to identify the color while you're creating the class project. You can take a reference from this particular practice sheet to get the exact idea of which color we are using right now. In case you do not want to go in that deep study, you can definitely use the basic terms as blue, red, green, et cetera. Now I'll be adding the second patch of the color which is steel. Just add a little bit of water in the color palette and apply a small patch of this particular color as well. You can observe it is having a little bit of variation than the first one. Whenever we use an artist grade of colors, in whichever medium you're working with, whether it is water color, et cetera, there are terms in detail. The colors will be named in a very complicated manner as well. But in case you do not want to make it that complex, you can definitely use simple terms like orange, green, blue, black, et cetera. In case you're using an artist's grade range only, then it is completely fine. You'll be easily able to figure it out. I'll be applying deep green color. I'll just create a small patch of this particular color as well. Then we have light green again. I'll be taking some water in the color palette, mix the colors well, try to create a nice combination of water and color together and apply a small patch. Then comes the last color, which is going to be the major color to create some nice depth and details in the entire painting. So I'll be taking some good solid black color, make a good combination of water and color together. And apply a small patch again, try to have a less amount of water so that we can get a highly saturated, solid black color. These are the six basic colors that we're going to use to create all the six class projects. Apart from this, we are going to sketch and create a nice black ink on the entire sketch. You can use a simple pencil to create these basic strokes to complete the entire sketch. Then I'll be using a simple thin marker to get a thin black stroke. And then in the last, we are going to use a thick calligraphy pen, which is a strong marker having a thick tip. I hope that you got an exact idea of the color palette. Now let us move towards the next part. 5. Lets Practice: Everybody. Now let us practice all the elements that you will need for the entire class. No need to worry at all. We are going to have a simple practice session which will be really helpful for you to have a prior knowledge of all the class projects. Let us start with a simple basic sketch. I have one of my class projects placed in the left hand portion. As you can observe, it's a simple lantern. I'll be using a simple pencil initially to create a basic sketch. I've started by creating a semicircular shape on the topmost portion. Then we have a simple structure of the entire lantern having verticals in between. And then you have to end it up by adding a small semicircular shape in the bottom portion as well. Then we're going to add a little light in the middle portion. You can simply follow these steps. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw a rough sketch in a very slow and steady manner. Try to apply rough and random strokes. Only no need to worry about perfection. You can observe carefully. I'm adding these little leaves in the surrounding of the entire lantern. This is how you have to just randomly create a rough sketch. No need to worry about perfection. Now we're going to ink the entire sketch. So I'll be using my marker. Initially, we are using a thin marker. Basically, just start from the topmost portion. I can give you a nice tip while sketching whenever you're inking or using a simple pencil Also while sketching, just try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it very much stiff, No need to worry about perfection. You can add minor details using the same marker. You can observe I'm adding these little vertical lines on the topmost portion and you can observe that I'm just moving my hand in a very free manner. Slowly, we are going to cover the entire pencil line. You can enhance the points where the lines are intersecting by applying some more pressure on it. I'm covering the bottom portion as well. I'll be adding the same vertical lines to add some minute details in the entire sketch. Whenever you're inking using a marker, no need to worry about getting a very rough and random stroke in case it is getting a little bit random in certain areas, it is completely fine. It can be the part of the entire urban sketching. I'll be covering the leaves as well, and I'm just finishing up with the light. We are done inking with a small tip of the marker. Now I'll be using my calligraphy pen, which is basically a thick marker only having a broader tip. You can observe that we get a nice solid black stroke to enhance the entire sketch. Basically, we are not going to apply the thick black stroke in the entire sketch. I'm just applying it in certain portions to enhance and create some nice depth and details in the entire sketch, I'm covering the bottom portion to apply this solid black color as well. Again, I'll be repeating the same steps that no need to hurry at all. Try to keep your hand very much loose and free and apply these strokes in a very random and natural way. Now let us apply water colors, which is a very amazing and satisfying part. I'll be using my round brush of pi seven. Apply a nice coat of water, and I'll be taking some cadmium orange initially. Make a good composition of color and water together and apply it in the center portion. We are just spreading some light element, you can observe it in the class project on the left hand side as well, I'll be taking some nice combination of deep green and light green together and we're going to apply it on the entire lantern. Use the tip of your round brush to paint in smaller area. You can observe very carefully that I'm moving my round brush in a very random and natural way only. Just be very much careful In smaller portion, just use the tip of your round brush. I'll be just blending the deep green and light green color with the cadmium orange as well. Now you can randomly apply the color in the surrounding portion of the leaves as well. In the background, you can observe that I have applied the color in a very random and natural manner. Only. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can just randomly apply the brush strokes as well. You can observe to enhance the leaves, I have applied the darker tone of green in the leaves and we're going to splatter some color. So add some water in color and just simply tap your finger randomly, splatter some color around the entire sketch. These are the three basic steps that we're going to use in all the six class projects. I hope that you got an exact idea of the practice sheet and the color palette. Now let us move towards the next part. 6. Lets Place the Paper: Everybody. So before we start painting, let us place the paper on the desk surface so that it will be comfortable for you to paint. If you observe the class projects carefully, We are going to have class project in a vertical format and there is also going to be a class project in an horizontal format as well. I'll be giving you a very easy and simple technique of how you can use a simple masking tape to place your watercolor paper on a position so that it will not move while you're painting. I'm going to use my six size watercolor paper, and it is 300 GSM. The GSM basically means the thickness of the paper so that you can apply heavy washes on it. Once we apply the masking tape, the paper will be stuck to the desk surface and it will not move while you're painting. You can place it in a vertical manner or in a horizontal manner. Now I'll be taking my masking tape and we're just going to take a small piece of it. Then you just have to convert it into a double sided tape. Just flip it over each other and you'll observe that it will have sticky part on both the sides. And simply place the piece on the watercolor paper. I'm going to place only two pieces because the paper size is a smaller one. In case you're using a bigger paper size, then you can place four pieces of the masking tape. Now simply flip the paper and apply some pressure using your fingers. And you'll observe that the paper will be stuck to the desk surface completely and it will not move while you're painting. It's a very simple and easy technique in case you want to place your paper completely to the desk surface. You can use this technique if you're comfortable with a loose paper that is completely fine. Now let us move towards the next part. 7. Painting 1 - The Castle: Everybody. So you're most welcome to the first class project, which is The Castle. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper placed on the desk surface and all the art supplies nearby so that we can access them in a comfortable manner. So I'll be using a simple pencil and we're going to start with a basic sketch. You can simply observe the way I'm using my pencil. You do not have to apply a lot of pressure on your pencil to get a dark sketch. We are just going to create a light sketch using this pencil, and then we are going to ink it using a black marker. You can observe I'm starting with a big structure which is a little bit off center onto the right inside. You can add these little vertical towers on the topmost portion. Slowly, I'll be adding two more building structures around it. It's a combination of horizontal and vertical lines together. There is no specific way of sketching it. You can simply follow the steps carefully. I'm adding these triangular shapes on the roof, and similarly, we're going to add vertical lines to create a nice big structure. You can observe that I'm adding multiple pencil strokes to create horizontal and vertical lines together. No need to worry about perfection. I'll be adding a simple house element on the right hand side, which is completely in an abstract form. No need to convert it into a complete structure. You can leave these strokes in between slowly. You can observe that it takes a nice look of a house in the right handside. Now we're going to add some minor details by just adding a simple vertical line on the topmost surface of the big structure. Then I'll be adding two little windows in between. It is going to be pointed on the topmost portion. It's a combination of two slant lines and some horizontal lines together. You can also add these little small windows in between the structure. No need to draw the sketch in the exact same way I'm drawing right now in case you want to create your own composition and there might be a little bit of difference also, it is completely fine. Now I'll be adding few more structure to the entire castle. I'm just adding these dome shaped, smaller structure on the left hand side. Slowly, you can observe it carefully. Again, it's a combination of two curves together, some horizontal and vertical lines, and you can connect it with the initial structure. Now similarly, we're going to add another roof element which is a little bit similar to the house which we drew initially. I'll be adding these slant lines. The pencil line basically acts as a reference point where you can apply the marker afterwards. In case your pencil sketch is not that much perfect, it is completely fine. You can make it better while you're applying blacking to it, since it is an abstract form of painting. No need to worry about perfection as well. I'll be adding these little slant lines to the first house that we sketched as well. Now the basic sketch is ready. Let us apply some black ink to the entire sketch so that it looks a little bit more aesthetic and attractive. Also, it will create a nice contrast with the solid white surface in the background. Adding an outline using a marker is going to be a very satisfying step. You just have to follow the pencil line and no need to worry about covering the entire pencil line completely. You can add few more extra strokes also if you want to, whenever you're applying an outline using a marker, always make sure that you do not hurry. Try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff. Also, one thing that you can observe carefully is that wherever there is an intersection of lines or two lines are joining together, there is a small black dot that you can observe. It will happen automatically only, and it looks really nice. When we apply some beautiful watercolors, this basically creates some nice depth and details to the entire sketch. You can observe that I'm following the horizontal and vertical lines together. Now, there is no pencil line for reference, but I'm going to add these little details. Adding these rectangular shapes in this particular area using the marker directly. Also, when it comes to tiny details, always make sure that you use the tip of your marker carefully, as you can observe. Slowly, I'm moving towards the entire structure that we have sketched on the left hand side as well. There are going to be elements where I have not applied the pencil line. You can add the details according to your convenience as well. It's just a combination of horizontal and vertical lines together. You can fill in some solid black color in the internal details as well. Just simply follow the steps and carefully follow the pencil line as well. Wherever you want to add some extra details using your marker, it is completely fine. We are almost done covering the entire sketch using this beautiful black marker. You can observe that I'm adding a few more details by adding these little rectangular shapes in between for these smaller windows. Also, you can just simply apply this small black patch. And then we have these detailed windows where you can apply some double lines. Then I'll be adding the solid black line to the house that we have sketched in the right hand side as well. If you observe carefully, there is a nice black dot on the ends of the lines. It basically creates a lot of details and depth to the entire sketch. Right now, you can observe a beautiful contrast of the black color with the solid white background that we have for the watercolor paper. One thing that I would like to tell you all is that right now you're observing the screen and maybe painting or sketching it with me. Whenever you're observing a real structure and you're sketching and painting on the live location, the experience is completely different. But right now, you can definitely observe the techniques of sketching and painting. This will help you a lot whenever you're visiting any live location and you observe any beautiful structure that you want to sketch or paint. Now let us add some water colors. The colors that you will need for this particular project is light green, deep green, and black. No need to worry at all in case you have a simple shade of green that will also work completely fine. I'll be using my round rush of size seven and in my color palette, I'll be taking a good combination of light green and dark green together. Make a good composition of water and color together. Start applying it on the bigger structure initially. No need to worry at all. In case you leave any space in between. It is completely fine since it's an abstract form of painting. Wherever you want to get a darker shade of the color, just make sure that you have less amount of water and more color in your brush. In case you find that your brush is having axis amount of water in your brush, just simply dab it onto the tissue paper so that axis amount of water will be removed and you'll be having a nice saturated color. You can observe the way I'm moving my brush. I'm using the tip of my brush to apply the color in smaller portions. Now I'll be taking some good amount of dark green color and I'll be applying it in the structures that we have created on either sides of the bigger tower. No need to worry about the solid black patch that we have applied using the marker. It will not spread easily now. Similarly, I'll be painting the second structure as well. Wherever you want to create some nice depth to the entire building structure, you can take some darker tone of the color and you can dab your brush onto the tissue paper to remove axis amount of water so that you can get a darker saturated color. I'll be applying the color to the roof of the house structure that we have created. In the right hand side, you can simply apply a small patch of the color and create these slant lines using your brush directly. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can apply the color in your own manner as well. You can also carefully observe that I have left some white spaces in between and it looks really nice and abstract whenever you are taking up urban sketching and live location, specially to create some darker tone in the right hand side of the entire house structure, I have applied some deep green in between. Now I'll be painting the remaining structure as well. If you observe carefully on the topmost portion of the tower, I applied a darker tone of the color. And then you can add some water to spread the color automatically. The best part about water colors is that you do not have to worry about perfection. You can randomly apply the color and water together and it will spread automatically and you'll get a very unpredictable output. Right now, you can observe a combination of light green and deep green together, which is basically a darker tone of green in case you want to use a monotonous color. And it's going to be a simple green color that is completely fine. Now again, I applied some darker tone of the color and then added some water and you can observe a beautiful gradient effect in the entire structure. Also, at the same time, I left some white space in between, which looks really nice when the entire color dries up. You can observe carefully how easy it is to apply water color to the entire basic sketch that we created. Trust me, it's a very satisfying part to create some shadow effect in this particular structure. I'm taking some deep green. I'm just adding a highly saturated, darker green color in the bottom portion of the building structure so that it creates some nice depth and details to the entire sketch. In case you're not that much confident enough to apply the watercolors directly towards your detailed sketch. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. I painted the entire roof in the left hand side as well, and I left some white spaces in between, knowingly only. And it creates some nice abstract form to the entire building structure. The best part about water colors is that it gives you a nice, unpredictable output. You can add a darker tone afterwards as well. It is completely fine. Now I'll be using my thick marker, which is having a thick tip of solid black color, which is basically a calligraphy pen. You can use any other good alternative as well, which is having a thick tip and can give you a nice solid black color in a darker and thicker manner. We are not going to cover the entire outline of the entire building structure, we are just going to apply this solid black line in certain portions. Once we apply water colors, the outline gets a little bit dull and the saturation of solid black color that we using a thin marker will definitely decrease. That's why I'm using a thicker marker this time. And we're going to just make some nice depth and details to the entire sketch by applying the lines in certain areas only you don't have to cover the entire outline of the building structure. Also, remember, whenever you are using a thick marker, also just try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff to increase the saturation of the solid black color that we have applied in the windows. You can use the same marker and add multiple strokes to make a solid black patch a little bit more saturated in the slant line. Also, you can observe that the saturation of the black line will increase and it creates some more abstract effect to the entire sketch. Trust me on this, it is a very random and natural way of applying these thick lines of solid black color as well. No need to worry about applying it in the same way I'm applying right now. You can just do it in a very random and natural way. Now let us create some nice abstract effect in the background, which is basically the sky area. I'll be taking some nice combination of tark green, which is deep green and light green together. Add a little bit of water. Simply tap your finger onto the brush and splatter some color in the background area in case your color is getting splattered on the building structure. That is also fine. Now simply take your spray bottle and spray some water in the background. In case you do not have a spray bottle, you can directly apply water using your brush directly in the background area. You'll observe that the color will automatically spread in the background area. Now simply take your clean brush, add a little bit of water, and just blend the colors together in the background area. No need to worry about perfection. You can already observe that the color is getting spreaded in a very abstract manner. You can also observe that the dots get a little bit less saturated when we apply some water to the entire background. Now in order to make it look a little bit more aesthetic and attractive, you can take some more color, add a little bit of water, and simply tap your finger onto the brush, and you can splatter some more color in the background area. The color basically gets onto the paper in the form of these little dots, which is having variation in sizes. You can observe a beautiful combination of the background color and the entire building structure. In case you want to add a little bit of more color in the area that is completely white, you can take some more color from the color palette and mix it and blend it with the entire background. I'll be using a simple pencil to add these little strokes in a very random and natural manner. No need to worry about applying these strokes in the exact same way I have applied. You can create your own combination and apply it in a very random manner to make it look a little bit more attractive. You can add your name or any positive quote in case you want to add to the entire painting. I'm just writing my name and urban sketching in the side. Also in a vertical format, you can add your name or any tag line that you want to add to the entire painting. It can be any positive at also, you can write it according to your convenience, whatever you're comfortable with. I'll be taking some nice teal and eruline blue. And we're going to enhance the entire building structure by adding these little patches of the color. We're not going to cover the entire building structure. I'm just applying it in certain portions to make a good contrast with the green color that we have applied. I'm using my same round brush of size seven. You can observe that I'm just adding it in certain portions, in a very small area by adding these little patches, it's a combination of teal and Celine blue together. In case you do not have the exact shade of the color, it is completely fine. You can use a simple blue color as well. I'll be adding a little bit of water and simply tapping my finger onto the brush to splatter some blue color as well. We are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. It's a combination of a beautiful sketch and watercolors together. We have also added a little bit of text in the entire painting. I hope that you enjoyed the class project. Now let us move towards the next painting. 8. Painting 2 - The Lantern: Everybody, you're most welcome to the second painting, which is the lantern. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper. This time we're going to draw the sketch in a vertical format. I'm starting by drawing a simple horizontal line and two slant lines in opposite directions. Then we're going to convert them into these rectangular shapes. Now just create one vertical line and attach it with the slant lines that we have created initially. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and try to create a basic sketch. Also, no need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. There might be a little bit of difference and it is absolutely fine. Slowly, we have drawn the entire topmost portion of the entire lantern. Now I will slowly draw the body of the entire lantern. These are simple vertical lines which are coming a little bit closer to each other since the structure is a little bit smaller in the bottom portion. And then you have to again connect it with horizontal and slant lines on either sides, convert it into these small rectangular shapes. You can double the lines for the vertical lines that we have drawn so that it gives a nice depth to the entire structure. There is going to be a small light in the center portion. You can just draw an oval shape, connect it with a cylindrical shape in between. Now in the bottom portion, the structure is very simple. You just have to draw these small semicircular shapes and just attach it with one vertical line. There is going to be some basic, simple building element in the background. It's a simple combination of horizontal and vertical lines together. No need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. You can create your own composition as well. Now I'm going to draw some abstract leaves that are going to be a part of the entire composition. You can just draw a random line in this way and connect it with these leaves which are having variation in sizes. In case you want to change the position of the leaves and draw it according to your convenience, it is completely fine. Now let us start giving a noise blacking to the entire sketch. I'll be using my marker, which is black, and I'm going to apply it onto the pencil line. No need to hurry at all. Whenever you're giving an outline, you just have to be very much careful and try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff. The entire step is very easy and simple. You just have to follow the pencil line. Also, apart from the pencil line, we can add few more details using black marker. It is completely fine. The pencil sketch basically gives us a basic structure of the entire sketch. And then we add these beautiful details and depth to the entire sketch. By adding the beautiful black marker, you can observe the way I'm applying the strokes in the entire sketch. You can also observe the way there is a nice black dot which is forming on the intersection of the entire lines or wherever two lines are meeting. It basically gives a nice aesthetic to the entire sketch as well. You can already observe a beautiful contrast with the white background and the blank inc that we're applying right now. Similarly, we are going to apply the black ink in the background portion as well. Again, you just have to apply the horizontal and vertical lines. And you can use the same marker to apply the outline for the leaves as well. You can observe that I'm leaving the lines in between only not giving it in a complete manner. You can use this technique whenever you are converting any particular sketch into an abstract manner. Now using the same marker, we can add few nice details to the entire sketch. You can add these little horizontal lines in the entire structure. We can also just create a nice solid patch for the body of the entire lantern. It creates a nice solid black patch, which will be really nice. In contrast, when we apply the watercolors as well, whenever you're traveling and you visit any new place, you will definitely observe these beautiful details. In urban sketching, lantern is a part of lighting. Wherever you find a beautiful lamppost or any lighting, you will observe that it is well detailed and it looks really nice. You can just take out your sketchbook and start sketching it on the live location as well. Right now, you're observing the way I'm sketching and drawing the entire sketch. But whenever you are visiting to a particular location and you are doing it on the live location, whenever you're observing a beautiful element and you're sketching it on the spot. There's a different fun in that the water colors that we are going to use are deep green, light green, cadmium, orange, and black. I'll be using my same round brush of size seven. I have taken some good amount of water and just a thin coat of water we are applying initially near the light element. Then we are going to take some good amount of cadmium orange in the brush. In case you find that the color is highly saturated, you can take some good amount of water and you'll observe the color will spread automatically. There is a highly saturated color near the light, and then you can apply some water around. Wherever you want to have a highly saturated color, you just have to make sure that you have less amount of water and more color. Wherever you want to spread the color and decrease the saturation, just apply some good amount of water, you'll observe that the saturation of the color will decrease automatically. Now I'll be making a good combination of deep green and light green together and mix it well in the color palette. Make a good composition of color and water together. Wherever you want a darker tone, try to have less amount of water and dab your brush onto the tissue paper you can observe. We have got a beautiful contrast with the cadmium orange color that we have applied initially. Similarly, I'll be applying the green color in the bottom structure as well. I wanted a darker tone in the left hand portion. I have taken some good amount of deep green there. The best part about watercolors is that you can apply it in a very random and natural manner. No need to worry about perfection in abstract painting, of course. Similarly, I have applied the color in the vertical structure of the entire lantern as well. You can already observe a beautiful contrast of the entire outline that we created using black ink and the watercolors that we have applied right now. One thing that I can tell you about watercolors is that you have to make sure that the saturated color that you observe while you're applying the color will be definitely one shade lighter when the entire painting dries. You can accordingly set the amount of water and color together Now in order to create a beautiful abstract background in a very random and natural way, only just apply the color in this beautiful, random way. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can easily follow the steps. I'm just applying the combination of deep green and light green color together in the outer portion, apart from the lantern. Wherever you want to have a nice darker tone of color, just take less amount of water and apply the color patch. And whenever you want to spread it in a nice way, just apply some more water around it and the color will automatically spread. The entire process is really very much satisfying, and you'll love to do this also in case you're not that much confident enough to apply the watercolors directly towards your final sketch, and you do not want to spoil your beautiful black sketch as well. Then what you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while applying the watercolors. And the chances of making mistakes will also be very less to increase the saturation of the color in the lantern as well. I'm applying another coat using some darker tones of deep green and light green together. As I told you, this is also a beautiful part about water colors, that you can apply multiple layers of the colors as well. The reason behind not completing the entire outline for the leaves is that we want to highlight the entire lantern and keep the background a little bit lighter. That's why I have not completed the entire outline and I have just applied it in a very random and natural way. Now to enhance the leaves, you can just make a good combination of cadmium orange. You can also take deep green and light green together. You can mix and match different colors together, create your own composition. You're definitely free to explore right now. You can observe that I have painted the leaves and I'm using the tip of my round rush basically to paint. In this smaller portion, I have also applied a nice lighter shade of cadmium orange, having more amount of water and less color. And you can observe beautiful light shade leaves on the right hand side. Let me tell you a beautiful thing about urban sketching that you can right now observe that there is no specific way of applying colors. Whenever you're done with the entire sketch, you can observe the way I'm randomly moving my brush. And you'll definitely enjoy this particular process. Now I have taken a good combination of deep green and light green together and simply tap your finger onto the brush to splatter the color in the entire painting in a very random and natural way only. Just do not splatter the color inside the lantern and just spray some water around. You can directly apply water using your brush as well. In case you do not have a spray bottle, you will observe that the color will automatically spread in the surroundings. You can already observe a very natural spreading of the color in the entire surface of the paper. You can take some more color using your brush and you can apply it in this random way. Just simply dab your brush to the paper surface and the color will automatically spread. The entire step is very much satisfying whenever you want to create a beautiful abstract background. Now right now you're observing a beautiful green color, but it will be definitely one shade lighter when the entire background rise. That's why I'm taking some good saturated color, having less amount of water of deep green. I'm just applying it in this random manner. Also, you can splatter it around and you'll observe a nice bouquet effect in the entire background as well. I'm just applying some more color on the right hand side by just taking some good amount of light green and deep green together. These beautiful dots, which are getting blurred will also replicate some beautiful leaves which are far away from the lantern in the background, you can observe that we are almost done creating a beautiful abstract background. And the lantern is also done with the entire watercolors. To replicate some beautiful flowers, just take some good amount of cadmium orange, a brush in this random manner. Now, as you can observe that we are done applying water colors to the entire sketch. And once we apply the water colors, the black color that we applied using our thin marker, we'll definitely get a little bit less saturated in order to make the sketch look a little bit more attractive. And in contrast with the background color, what we are going to do is that I'll be taking my thick marker, which is basically a calligraphy pen. It is having a thick black tip, and we're going to enhance the solid black lines. We are not going to cover the entire outline of the basic sketch, but we're going to apply it in certain portions only. This particular step will be definitely increasing the saturation of the solid black color. And your entire sketch will look a little bit more vibrant. The entire lantern will get a nice depth. If you observe carefully, I'm applying the marker in a very random way, only there is no specific way of applying it using the tip of my marker. I will also enhance the light element in the center portion. I'll be telling you the same thing, even if you're working with a thick marker, always try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it very much stiff. Apply multiple strokes to get a rough and random line rather than getting a perfect line. Also, in case you are not that much confident enough to reapply the thick marker towards your entire painting, what you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. I'll be adding a nice text using my blue pen, which is lantern and abstract. You can write any positive quote or any text you want to add towards your entire painting. It is completely fine and up to you. Now, let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe the entire painting carefully. I hope that you enjoyed this particular class project and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next class project. 9. Painting 3 - The Palace: Everybody, you're most welcome to the third painting, which I have named as The Palace. In this particular painting, we are drawing the sketch in the horizontal format. I'm starting from the topmost portion by creating a triangulated structure. I'll be using my simple pencil and we are going to create a rough sketch initially. Then by following two vertical lines on either side, we are going to complete the entire structure. Now I'm going to add these two slant lines on either sides. And then you can follow it by adding a rectangular shape on the bottom portion. No need to hurry at all. The three basic steps basically includes a basic pencil sketch that we're drawing right now. Now after that, we're going to apply black ink to the entire sketch and then water colors. If you observe carefully, it's a combination of horizontal and vertical lines together in case you want to create your own composition of the entire building structure, it is completely fine. You can just follow the basic steps. At times, we can directly sketch using a black marker also, but the pencil line acts as a basic reference for you to follow the lines and create your sketch in a perfect manner. Also, at times, in case there are certain mistakes, you can definitely erase them using a simple eraser. Now, in order to add some minute details, I'll be adding these circular shapes in between some little rectangular shapes. You can add these little windows by having a semicircular shape on the topmost portion. Now, apart from the main structure that we have drawn right now, we're going to add a nice dome, which is a part of the entire palace. You can just add a huge semicircular shape beside the first structure, and then connect these curved lines. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw it in a very slow and steady manner. Try to keep your hand very much loose and free whenever you're sketching. Now on the topmost portion of the entire dome, we're going to add a little semicircular shape as well. You can connect it with two vertical lines. I'm just doubling the curved lines that I have drawn to add some nice details to the entire dome structure. The best part about urban sketching, or I can say abstract sketching, is that even if you are drawing the sketch on the live location, it is not at all compulsory that your sketch has to be completely same as the building structure that you are seeing. Similarly, if you're following the steps that I'm doing right now, and if you are in case sketching it with me, no need to worry at all in case there are minor differences between your sketch and mine. It is completely fine because it is an abstract sketching. We are done with the basic sketch using a pencil. Now let us add a nice black line using our black marker. It is having a thin tip. It's a very simple and easy technique. You just have to follow the pencil line apart from the pencil line in case you want to add additional details to the entire sketch. That is also completely fine if you observe carefully, the entire black line basically enhances your entire sketch. It creates a beautiful contrast with the solid white background of the paper. A nice tip that I can give you while you are giving an outline to any particular sketch is try to hold your black pen or marker, whatever art supply that you're using to give an outline to the entire sketch in a very free and loose manner. No need to make your hand very much stiff and don't be afraid of getting random and rough strokes in your entire sketch. It is a part of abstract sketching. Uh, now, wherever we have minute details like small windows and little structure elements in the entire building, what you can do is you can add a solid black patch in this particular portion. This will help you to create a nice contrast in the entire sketch, even after we apply the watercolors. Also, we are almost done adding an outline to the entire structure on the left hand portion. Now slowly, I'll be moving towards the right hand side where we have this huge dome. There are double lines of pencils. You can follow them carefully. You can even add minute details using your marker directly. Now in the bottom portion, we have these huge vertical lines that you can follow. Also, in case you're not that much confident enough to apply the marker directly towards your pencil sketch, what you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper and then you can come towards your final sketching. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less. Now, if you observe in the entire palace, where we have this huge dome structure, I have added few minor details directly through my marker. I'll be taking my thick marker now, which is basically a calligraphy pen only, and I'll be adding these solid black patches in between. We are not going to apply the thick marker to the entire sketch that we have created using the pencil just in certain portion where we want to create some nice shadow effect. This basically helps us to give a nice depth and detail to the entire sketch. Now the watercolors that we're going to use are deep green, light green, cadmium, orange, and black. Using all the four colors together, we are going to complete the watercolor painting. I've taken some clear water and applied it in a very random way near the huge structure. Now take a good combination of deep green and light green together and apply the color in the building portion. In the topmost portion, you'll observe that the color spreads automatically. No need to worry about that. It is a part of the abstract painting that we are creating right now. Wherever you want to spread the color, you have to take some good amount of water and apply its patch near the saturated color. And you'll observe that the color will automatically spread. Whenever you want to have a highly saturated color, try to have less amount of water and more color. This will give you a highly pigmented and saturated color. Now I have taken some cadmium orange and combined it with the deep green that we have applied on the topmost portion. The colors are right now, wet. You'll observe a nice combination of both the colors together. They will automatically blend. You can observe a beautiful combination of both the colors right now. In case you want to create your own combination of the colors, it is completely fine. I've taken a highly saturated cadmium orange color, applied it on the right hand portion of the building structure. Then I'm taking some good amount of water, and I have applied a nice patch in a very random way. Only you will observe that the color spreads automatically. There are also certain white spaces left in between, and it is completely fine. It looks really nice and classic. Wherever you want to increase the saturation of the color, you can definitely reapply another layer of water colors. Try to have less amount of water and more color. In case you find that there is more amount of water in your brush, just simply dab it onto the tissue paper. That's why it is important to keep a tissue paper nearby. Now let us paint the huge dome on the right hand side. I have applied a thin coat of water in a random way. You'll also observe the marker line getting spreaded and it looks really nice. I'll be taking some deep green and light green together. Apply it on the palace surface and you'll observe that the color will spread automatically. Again, I have applied the color patch in a very random way only. You will also observe the spread of the color in the background in a very natural way. Now, let us add some cadmium orange here as well. You just have to take it in your round brush of size seven and combine it with the green color that we have applied initially. One thing that I can tell you about water colors is that the saturation of the color that you're observing right now when the colors are wet, will be one shade lighter When the color dries up accordingly, you have to create a combination and composition of water and color together. Wherever you want to have a nice saturated color, just try to have less amount of water and more color. I've added a nice dark green patch on the right hand side apart from the dome structure, which creates a beautiful contrast. Now take some deep green and light green together and tap your finger onto the brush. You'll observe that the color will splatter on the background. Try to splatter the color around the palace surface and simply spray some water around. Now in case you do not have a spray bottle, you can directly spread the colors using your brush as well. I'll be taking some cadmium orange and I'll be applying it on the corner. There is already water in the background, or I can say the paper surface. The color will spread automatically and it will get a nice blend with the green color as well. You can simply add some water and randomly move your brush to make a nice abstract background. You can already observe a beautiful contrast of the entire palace with the solid white background of the paper. I'm just taking some cadmium orange and I'm applying a darker tone of the color on the right hand side. Try to have less amount of water and more color. If you want to spread the color, you can take some water from the container to create some more depth. I have added some black, and I'm just splattering the color around. Now let us add some beautiful text to the entire sketch that we have created. I'm writing urban sketching. On the topmost portion, you can write any positive quote or any text that you want to add to your painting. We are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. You can observe how using three basic steps, sketching, inking, and painting, we have created this beautiful urban painting. I hope that you enjoyed this particular painting. Now let us move towards the next class project. 10. Painting 4 - The Window: Everybody, you're most welcome to the fourth painting, which is the window. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper and in this particular class predict we are drawing in a vertical format. There's going to be a beautiful, elegant window and we are starting with a basic rough sketch using a pencil. I've drawn two rectangular shapes having some space in between. And we're going to connect it by drawing a simple semicircular shape. I've drawn one semicircular shape. On the top of that you can draw a small rectangular shape. Then I have repeated the curves on either sides. This is basically considered as the frame structure of the entire window, which is on the topmost portion. Now we're going to add vertical lines on either sides to complete the entire framework of the window. No need to hurry at all. Try to draw the basic sketch in a very slow and steady manner. Whenever you try to draw a rough sketch, always try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff. I've added two more rectangular shapes on the bottom portion, and then I'm adding two vertical lines. As you can observe, we are almost done creating the outline of the entire window, which is basically the out frame structure. I have added these little rectangular shapes on the bottom portion to enhance the details. Now I'll be adding the window, which is going to be in a rectangular format. And then you can divide it into two different parts by adding a simple vertical line in between. Then I'm adding few minor details, by adding a circular shape on the topmost portion, you can observe that it's a basic sketch and you don't have to worry about perfection. Wherever you want to add minute details, you can add these little horizontal and vertical lines together. Whenever you observe any building structure you want to draw it, always start with basic lines to create its basic structure. No need to worry about perfection. And drawing it in the exact same way you're observing it. There can be minor difference and it is completely fine. No need to worry about that. I've added a fence element in the right hand portion and I'll be adding few plantations or you can consider it as small bushes on the left hand portion which is moving towards the topmost portion as well. You can just create some nice bushy texture and add these rough random lines. You can also add tiny little leaves also. Now let us start applying some beautiful black outline to the entire basic sketch that we have created using pencil, you just have to follow the pencil line. Also, where we have not applied the pencil, you can add minute details using your black marker directly. Also, you can add small black patches wherever you want to create some shadow effect and depth to the entire sketch. The first step is basically creating a simple pencil sketch, and then now we are doing the second step, which is inking the entire sketch. The reason behind applying a solid black outline to the entire sketch is that it will create a nice depth and details to the entire sketch. Your sketch will have a beautiful contrast with the solid white background of the watercolor paper. It will also help you a lot to observe the sketch carefully while you're applying watercolors. Now, in the left hand portion, if you observe carefully, I have not given the outline completely. I have just randomly apply the strokes using my marker. As I told you that it is an abstract way of sketching, No need to worry about perfection. I'll be adding these minute details in the entire sketch by creating these rectangular shapes in between. One thing that I would like to suggest to you all is that whenever you are using a pencil or a marker, just try to keep your hand very much loose and free while you're applying it to your sketch. No need to make your hand stiff. Just move it freely and apply these strokes. Now I'm slowly moving towards the main window element to add some nice solid black line. You can just reapply some more vertical and horizontal strokes to make the solid black patch look a little bit more thicker. In the bottom portion, we have few minor details that are small, rectangular shapes that we can create. The benefit of using a thin marker right now is about creating minute details. In order to get thick black patches, we are going to use a thicker marker now. Similarly, I'll be creating the outline of the fence element that we have in the right hand side as well. You can create these tiny little black dots in the intersection of the lines. That will look really nice when we apply the watercolors. I'll be using my thick marker, which is basically a calligraphy pen, which is having a thick tip. And we're going to add these solid black lines, which are a little bit thicker. We are not going to apply this thick marker on the entire outline of the sketch. We are just going to apply it randomly in certain portions only where we have this beautiful bushy effect, which is basically some nice plantation in the left hand portion there, we are going to create these solid black patches in certain areas to create some nice depth and shadow effect. Now let us start with the water colors as well. We are going to use deep green, cadmium orange, light green, and black for the entire painting. No need to worry at all in case you want to use your own color palette and play with the colors and create your own variation. It is completely fine. You can explore and experiment according to your convenience. I've taken some clear water in my roundbrush of size seven. Apply a nice coat of water on the entire building structure. Of course, in a very random and natural way, only no specific way of applying it. Now I have taken some good saturated cadmium orange, having less amount of water, and just apply it on the window structure and the details that we have applied on the topmost portion. Now simultaneously, you have to take some nice deep green and light green together. Apply to the remaining structure of the window. No need to worry at all in case your color goes out of the line. It is completely fine. It's an abstract form of painting, so no need to take it that much seriously. In fact, you can randomly just keep your brush out of the line and create this nice abstract background. Also, one thing that you can keep in mind is wherever you want to have a highly saturated color, try to have more amount of color and less water in your brush. Wherever you want to have a lighter shade of color, or you want the color to spread in a very random and natural way, try to have more amount of water and less color slowly. You can observe that in the outer frame of the entire window, I have taken a darker tone of green and we have applied it very naturally. Only wherever you find that there is a smaller portion to paint, you can use the tip of your round brush and you can apply it in the smaller portion to paint it carefully in case you're not that much confident enough to apply the watercolors directly towards your ininged sketch. What you can do is you can practice it on a rough scrape of paper initially, and then you can come towards your final painting. This will help you a lot to develop confidence while painting, and the chances of making mistakes will be very less now. Similarly, we want to create some abstract background in the left hand portion where we have created these beautiful bushes. I'm just taking some water from the container. Apply a thin coat of water in a very random way. Only now there is already water present. You can take some nice light green and dark green together. Apply it in the bushes. You will observe that the colors will automatically spread in the background. You can even use the tip of your round brush to paint these little leaves around. One thing that I would like to tell you all is that no need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can create your own composition of the entire structure as well. You can play with the color combination. You can explore and paint it according to your convenience. It is completely fine. In fact, it would be really great if you experiment with the building structure and the color combination. You can simply follow the techniques of sketching and painting. We are almost done applying the water colors to the entire sketch. Now let us increase the saturation of certain colors to create some nice depth and details to the entire painting. For that, you need to have less amount of water and more color in your brush. In case you find that there is axis amount of water in your brush, you can simply dab your brush onto the tissue paper and remove axis amount of water from it. Now I've taken some good deep green and light green together. And simply tap your finger onto the brush to splatter some color around the entire window in a very random way. Only then you can use your spray bottle and spray some water around in case you do not have a spray bottle, you can directly use your brush having some water in it. We are just basically creating an abstract background around the window so that it gives a nice classic look to the entire urban sketch that we have created. No need to hurry at all. Take your time and try to create this beautiful abstract effect. You can take some more color from the color palette to increase the saturation of the color as well. You can simply dab your brush onto the background and you'll observe a beautiful spread of the color. You can also splatter the color again by simply papping your finger onto the brush. And I'm repeating myself, no need to worry about getting the exact same output or painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. There will be a minor difference between your painting and mine and it is completely fine, so no need to worry about that. In fact, your abstract effect will also vary and it is completely okay. I've taken some good amount of saturated cadmium orange, having less amount of water in it. And I'm just reapplying it in certain portion to increase its saturation, to basically create some nice depth and details to the entire painting. Now let us add some text to the sketch. I'm writing abstract and urban sketching, You can write any positive quote or any text that you find convenient. It is completely fine. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Using three easy steps, we have created this beautiful painting. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. Now let us move towards the next class project. 11. Painting 5 - The Dome: Hey, hey buddy. You're most welcome to the fifth painting which is the dome. As you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper and in this particular class project, it is going to be in a vertical format. We are starting from the topmost portion, draw a simple vertical line and two small semicircular shape just below that. Then we are going to have a huge dome, which is going to be, again, a semicircular shape. Below that, I'm going to draw a simple horizontal line, which is going to replicate a nice building structure. You can just convert it into a rectangular shape, and on either side you can have two small rectangles as well. Now I'll be connecting it with vertical lines, which is a part of the entire building structure. Then we have a nice house element. In the bottom portion, there is going to be this simple triangular shape. And you can just give it a double line and then connect it with a small horizontal line. Then we're going to add these little vertical lines to add some minute details to the entire sketch. Whenever you're drawing a sketch using a pencil, no need to hurry at all. Try to keep your hand very much loose and free and just simply convert these horizontal and vertical lines together to form a simple building structure in case you're not that much confident enough to draw a sketch directly using your marker. It is always good to carry a simple pencil and create a basic sketch using it. Now below the house element, I have added this nice semicircular door and added few vertical lines inside it so that we can add some minute details. It is not at all compulsory for you to draw the entire sketch in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. You can create your own composition of the entire sketch as well. I have added few minor details in the entire dome structure as well. Whenever you try to create an initial sketch using a pencil, always try to make sure that it is very much light and rough. We are almost done with the entire sketch. Now we are going to apply the black marker. I'll be taking my marker with a thin tip, and we're going to start with the topmost portion. No need to hurry at all. Just simply follow the pencil line. It is not at all compulsory that you cannot add additional strokes using your marker. You can definitely add few more strokes. Don't worry about drawing it in the exact same way I'm drawing right now. Also, you'll find it very satisfying to add these beautiful black lines to the entire sketch. It is one of the most satisfying part. The best part about urban sketching is that whenever you visit any particular location or you find any interesting building element, you can simply observe it carefully and start sketching it out. You just don't have to worry about perfection and no need to worry about drawing it in the exact same way the structure is looking. There can be minor differences and it is completely fine. Trust me right now, you might be observing the way I'm drawing and you must be even drawing with me. But when you try to draw it in a live location where you find a beautiful building element, you observe it carefully and try to draw it on the location there's a different piece. And satisfaction in that at times. You can also take out your cell phones, take good pictures of that particular element or the entire building, then you can use the picture as reference and draw it later. You can create a variation in the entire sketch. You can play with the composition of the building elements. You can also create your own color combination as well, in order to add minute details. I have added these little vertical lines in the dome structure where you have these tiny, rectangular shapes, a small circular shape, and a small dome element in the left hand side as well. Now similarly, we'll be adding the marker to the house that we have sketched in the bottom portion. You can carefully observe that I have added vertical lines in the roof of the house as well, and it looks really nice. You can apply multiple strokes using your marker as well. Now, there is a simple door element in the center portion. Again, there is a combination of horizontal and vertical lines together that you can observe carefully whenever you are applying an outline using a marker, always make sure that your hand is very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff. If you observe carefully, there are these little tiny black dots where the lines are intersecting or at the end of the lines, which looks really nice when we apply the water colors as well. Now, in order to add minute details in the house as well, I have drawn these little rectangular shapes in between. We're almost done inking the entire sketch that we created using a pencil. I'll be using my thick marker, which is basically a calligraphy pen only. But using this, we can apply thick, black strokes. No need to worry at all. We are not going to cover the entire sketch using this thick marker. We're just going to apply it in certain portions. It basically helps us to get some nice depth and details to the entire sketch. You can observe carefully that I'm applying the marker in certain areas only. No need to worry at all in case you do not have a thick marker. You can definitely use your thin marker. Apply multiple strokes to get this nice thick black patch wherever you want to create some beautiful depth and details. You can carefully observe that I have added some nice depth in the entire door as well. Right now, you can observe a beautiful contrast of the entire sketch with the white paper in the background. The colors that we are going to use are crimson, deep green, cadmium orange, and light green. Now, once we are done with the entire sketch, we're going to apply water colors to the entire sketch in a very random and rough manner. I have taken some water from the container. I'll be using my round brush of size seven. And I'm starting from the topmost portion, applying a beautiful patch of water slowly coming towards the internal portion of the entire building structure. It's a part of abstract painting, so no need to worry about perfection. The color might spread and it moves out of the line as well, and it is completely fine. I'm starting by taking a good combination of light green and deep green together. And we are just applying it in the internal portion of the dome while working with water colors. You can just keep in mind that wherever you want a dark saturated color, try to have less amount of water and more color. So I'll be taking some cadmium, orange, and crimson together and just apply it in the walls of the entire dome. And let the color flow into the house element in the bottom portion as well, in a very random and natural manner. No need to worry about applying the color in the exact same way I'm applying right now. You can create your own composition and you can apply it in a very random and natural way. It is completely fine if you observe carefully, there might be some white spaces left in the entire sketch, and it is completely okay. It will look really nice and classic when the entire watercolor dries. If you want a light saturated color, what you have to do is that try to have more amount of water and less color, and you'll observe that the color will spread automatically. Using this easy and simple technique to increase water and decrease water in the pigment, you can play with the variation in the shade of the entire color. The color will get lighter when you add more amount of water, and it will get more saturated and darker if you have less amount of water in your brush. In order to make the entire door look a little bit darker, I have applied crimson and cadmium orange together to make a nice darker tone of color and applied it in the entire door. You can add a little bit of black as well right now. You can also observe that the marker gets a little bit spreaded because we have used a little bit of water. So it will automatically give us a nice depth and detail to the entire painting. Also, if you observe carefully on the top right corner, there is a very random natural patch of water that is being done. It is a part of abstract painting. No need to worry about your painting to get spoiled. You can definitely cover it up by adding more colors in the background. I'll be just taking a good combination of deep green and light green together and we are going to just tap our finger onto the brush splatter some color around the entire building structure, and spray some water using your spray bottle in case you do not have a spray bottle, you can use your brush directly as well. Now, once we have applied some water in the background, you can take some more color in your brush and apply it in a very random manner. You'll observe that the color will spread automatically slowly. You'll observe a nice blend of both the colors together. This basically creates a nice abstract background with the building structure. It is completely fine. Your abstract background might vary from mine, and it might be a little bit different and it is completely okay. In fact, in case you want to experiment with the color combination in the background, it is completely fine. You can again tap your finger onto the brush patter some color in the background. You're free to explore and experiment. This is how you can combine these beautiful colors together and make a good combination of abstract background. I'm taking some cadmium orange, and you can also take some crimson if you want to. And add these little patches in the background. Since the paper is wet right now, so the color will spread automatically and you'll get a beautiful blend of both the colors together. We are done with the entire painting. Let us add some beautiful text to the entire painting to make it look a little bit more aesthetic and attractive. You can use any positive text or quote you want to write. I'm just writing abstract urban sketching. We are done with the entire painting. Let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting and got to learn something new. You can use three basic steps to create this beautiful painting. Now let us move towards the next class project. 12. Painting 6 - Vintage House: Everybody, you're most welcome to the last painting, which is the vintage House. So as you can observe, I'm ready with my watercolor paper, and again, it is going to be in a vertical format. We are going to start by using our simple pencil, and it's going to be a vintage house. There is going to be a triangulated roof on the topmost portion. Just draw simple two slant lines connecting together in a triangular shape. And then you can double the lines, draw a simple horizontal line in between, and then two vertical lines on either sides. There is going to be a huge window in the center portion, which you can create as a frame as well. You can double the lines in horizontal and vertical manner. No need to hurry at all whenever you are drawing using a pencil, always try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to make it stiff in case you want to create your own composition of the entire house. It is completely fine. I've added these little horizontal lines in the roof structure to add some minor details. Then there is going to be a huge rectangular shape, which is the foundation of the entire house. And these little rectangular shapes which are connected to it, forming a beautiful fence of the entire house. To create some aesthetics and elements in the entire painting, I'm adding these little bushes as you can observe. It's a simple random line that we have created. Then there's going to be a roof connected to the entire house. You can just create these slant lines together. I'll be adding a little chimney on the topmost portion. You can observe that we have almost created a beautiful house structure. I have also added a little bit of plantation in the right hand side of the house as well. In a very random and natural way. Only you can do that particular step according to your convenience. Now we are adding these little vertical lines in the bottom portion to enhance some details. We are almost done with the basic sketch. You can add these little bushes of plants in the bottom portion if you want to. Now, once you're done with the entire sketch, let us use our marker to apply black line to the entire sketch. Again, I'm starting from the topmost portion. It is a very simple and easy step. You just have to follow the pencil line. No need to worry at all in case you add certain additional strokes rather than the pencil line. It is absolutely fine. In fact, you can add minor details using your marker directly. Also, no need to hurry at all. And I repeat the same step that try to keep your hand very much loose and free. Whenever you are using a pencil or a marker to apply an outline. Basically you can observe that I'm adding these little vertical lines to add minute details to the entire sketch as well. If you observe carefully, you'll be observing that there are these little black dots forming in the end of the lines or wherever the lines are intersecting, which looks really nice when you apply the water colors. Now in the roof, I'm adding these little horizontal lines to add some minute details. It basically creates some nice aesthetics. And the entire painting looks a little bit more in detail. Now let us add the outline to the entire house element as well. I'm starting with the walls. You can add double lines as well near the plantation, you just have to randomly apply the line in this format in case your marker line does not follow the pencil line. It is absolutely fine. You can add multiple strokes and create an abstract outline. I'm adding these horizontal and vertical lines in the fence as well. Now, I'll be adding the outline to the window element as well. It's a simple double line where we are adding these horizontal and vertical lines together. It basically creates the entire framework of the entire window. You can observe that I'm adding two vertical lines to complete the walls of the house. You can add these little vertical lines to add few more details in the entire house structure. Then we have these little details in the bottom portion as well. You can also add these little bushy structure in the bottom portion. Just randomly apply your marker in this manner. Now to add some more depth and details to the entire sketch, I'm using my calligraphy pen, which is basically a thick black marker. You just have to apply these solid black patches in a very random and natural way. You're not going to cover the entire outline using this thick marker. You just have to apply it in certain areas. I'm also enhancing the frame of the entire window slowly. I'll be moving towards the left hand side. You can carefully observe that as you apply this thick, solid black line to the entire sketch, the sketch will automatically get enhanced. We are also going to add these little solid black patches in the bush that we have sketched in the left hand portion as well. Now you can observe a beautiful contrast of the entire sketch with the solid white background that we have of the watercolor paper. I have also added these little black patches in the bottom portion and in the fence element. Even if you're working with a thick marker, always try to keep your hand very much loose and free. No need to hurry at all. In case your marker line does not follow the pencil line, it is absolutely fine. Now let us talk about the watercolors that we're going to use. The watercolors that we're going to use for this particular painting is deep green, light green, cadmium orange, and black. In case you want to create your own color combination for the entire sketch, it is absolutely fine. I'm starting by taking some good amount of saturated cadmium orange. I started from the topmost portion. You can observe that the color is also going out of the line, and it is absolutely fine. It is a part of urban sketching and abstract painting. Basically, I'm randomly applying the color in certain areas. One thing that you can keep in mind while using water colors is that whenever you want to have a highly saturated color, try to have less amount of water and more color. This will give you a nice pigmented and saturated color. Wherever you want a lighter tone, try to have more water and less color. Now I'll be taking a combination of deep green and light green together and start applying it in the remaining portion of the entire house. No need to hurry at all. Take your time. Mix the colors. Well, try to make a good combination of color and water together. Use the tip of your round brush to paint in smaller area. And wherever you want to have a lighter saturated color, try to use more amount of color. We have almost applied the water color in the entire house. Now I'll be adding some color to the remaining building structure as well. You can randomly apply some green patches in the bottom portion. As you can observe, it's a very random and natural way of applying color. No need to worry about painting it in the exact same way I'm painting right now. You can create your own combination of colors. You can apply the color in your own random way. You can observe that. I'm also leaving some white spaces in between. And it is absolutely fine. It basically makes the entire painting look a little bit more classic. I took some nice amount of deep green and light green together and applied it on the remaining roof, leaving some white spaces in between. Then in the walls also, I have applied the same color and I have left the window portion completely white. There is this nice bushy element. You can paint that green as well. You can create variation in color by just increasing and decreasing the saturation of the color. I'm just taking some good amount of water which is having a little bit of green in it and I'm just applying it in the sky area. Basically the remaining portion of the building structure, you can observe that the marker also gets a little bit spreaded when we apply some water. Again, you can take some good amount of deep green and light green together. Apply these little patches in the surrounding. We have the watercolor paper completely wet right now in the background. You can take some deep green and light green together. Tap your finger onto the brush and splatter some color around the background area. Use your spray bottle and spray some water around the drops that we have applied to the background. In case you do not have a spray bottle, you can directly spread them using your brush. Try to have some good amount of water in your brush and just try to blend the colors together. You'll observe that the dots will also get spreaded in the entire background. Now let me tell you one thing. That it is absolutely fine if your abstract background is completely different than mine. In fact, you can experiment and explore according to your convenience, since the background is completely wet right now. You can also splatter some more color and you'll observe that the dots looks really nice. Now, I'll be taking some cadmium orange also, and I'm just plattering that color as well. It creates a nice contrast with the green color. Now you can observe a beautiful combination of an abstract background and the entire vintage house that we have painted. Now, in order to increase the saturation of the window color, which is having a beautiful cadmium orange color, try to have less amount of water and more color. You'll observe a nice vibrant color and apply it on the entire window. Use the tip of your round brush to paint in this smaller portion. No need to worry at all in case there are certain spaces left in between. It is absolutely fine. You can also add this particular color in certain areas which are completely white to enhance the details of the entire vintage house. Now, in order to make a good contrast in the frames of the window, I'm taking a little bit of black and I'm just using the tip of my rounder, having less water in it. Just apply it to the entire frame and you'll observe a beautiful contrast of the frame with the window color. Once we apply the water colors, you'll observe that the solid black line that we applied using the marker and the thicker marker will get a little bit less saturated. I'll be taking my thick marker again and I'll be reapplying the strokes so that the black color will get a little bit more enhanced and it will get resaturated again. Similarly, you can use this thick marker to add minute details in the bushes and the smaller rectangular structure that we have added to the entire vintage house. Simply use the tip of your marker, no need to keep your hand very much stiff. Try to keep it very much loose and free. You can also apply the marker in the fence as well. Now let us add some text to the entire painting. I'm writing abstract urban sketching. You can write any positive or any text line that you like. We are done with the entire painting. Now let me take you a little bit closer so that you can observe all the details carefully. Using three basic steps, we have completed the entire painting. I hope that you enjoyed creating this particular painting. This is the last class project. Now let us move towards the next part. 13. Class Conclusion: Urban sketching is a very interesting topic in art. Whenever you're traveling or going to a different location where you find some interesting building elements, you can observe them carefully and try to replicate it in your sketchbook. No need to worry about perfection. You just have to create some random natural lines. Try to make a good combination of pencil lines, sketch pens and watercolors together, and create some beautiful abstract paintings. One thing that I always tell my students is never to be afraid of making mistakes. It is a part of learning. Always try to maintain an art journal in which you can practice on a regular basis and keep a record of your artwork. I would be very excited to see all of your class projects. Do add your projects to the project gallery. Feel free to ask any questions or doubts you have related to the class. It would be really great if you leave a review for the class as it encourages me a lot and my class can reach many more students like you. You are free to explore and experiment with the class projects at the end. I would like to say keep learning, keep practicing. Thank you so much for joining my class and happy painting.