Textures for Urban Sketches: Easy Techniques to Add Realism and Material Feel!

1. Introduction: Add Realistic Textures to Your Urban Sketches: Hi. This is Ugana from wwyello.com. I welcome you in my new mini class on adding textures to your urban sketches. I have a teaching degree and I work as a professional and illustrator for the last ten years. In my free time, I love traveling and sketching. And in my teaching, I like breaking complex things down and make them really accessible and simple. This class continues my series on urban sketching, feel free to check out that one as well. I will leave the link in the notes. Join me in this fun and easy class, and at the end, you will learn how to add this sense of material to your own sketches. See you there. 2. Your Class Project: Sketching Three Simple Textures: In this class, we will learn how to draw three different textures, bricks, the roof tiles, and concrete or sandstone. Your class project is to draw three simple texture squares, applying your new knowledge. Feel free to use any inking tools. Ideally, if your tool has a variable line weight, such as ink brushes, brush pens, et cetera. I will be using my Procreate on my iPad Pro and my own ink brush which I will share with you in the class resources below. 3. Drawing Textures: Bricks, Roof Tiles, and Concrete: How do we draw textures? Let's use this brick building as an example. What I definitely don't want to do and I don't want you to do it is to draw brick by brick like this, counting every single square and overdoing it. This is too time consuming and it doesn't look good because it's destructive for the viewer's eye. So one thing I want to consider is the light. In this example, it comes from the top left and I draw a few bricks here and there, just a few groups of bricks like this. Some lines I don't finish maybe here. A hint of texture is enough for our audience to get the impression what it's a brick wall to put it in other way. I don't want to be too wordy when telling a story. I don't want to be too literate. So I just mark with very some texture there and which is enough for me. On the right, depending on your light, but in my case on the right, I go a bit more detailed and on the left, I could just leave it clear or just do a few hints like that. Now let's try another texture. Let's look at these roof tiles. Again, we really don't want to go at every tile, close every line, and just spend a lot of time on this unnecessary detailed roof. No. The light comes from the top. I squint my eyes and basically, this roof is just this is rough line. I will draw a couple of horizontal lines. Maybe even thinner, marking these rows of the tiles. Then You see what's happening. I am marking the texture of individual elements, but I don't draw each element, more like giving the hint but there is something, some specific material going on here. Maybe ano line. This one could be darker because less light coming here. So here it is the roof texture without overspending hours and hours on drawing every individual tile. Second thing to remember is the R of the lines. So the lines within the silhouette, let's say this is our building. The texture within the silhouette of the building will always be lighter. Do not overdo it, do not make it too bold. Otherwise, it will be arguing with the main object and with important elements like windows, doors, roof. Here in a sour brick building. And the last but not least, the rule which I call less is more. Less is more. Let's say we're drawing more minimalistic texture, which is a rough stone wall or a concrete wall, and we still want to specify what something is there and the texture is important to us. I would just do a few hints, not even lines, but let's do the window for comparison here. Or window. So I just draw a few little hints, dots. This texture reminds me of sand grains. So I kind of bring it up into my sketch. It's nice if we distribute it unevenly to create this organic look. So I don't draw it like the perfect lines of dots equally distributed on the surface. I would rather draw a few groups of dots here and there. And they all look different to create sense of the rhythm and of the natural flow of the things. Like this. So I have a little homework for you. Draw three little squares like that and fill it up with the textures. One will be bricks, second will be tonee and the third one will be roof tiles. I look forward to see what you come up with. See you in the next class. And 4. Outro: Share Your Sketches and Keep Creating!: Thank you for spending this time with me. I love hanging with other sketchers, and please high five yourself for learning something new today. I hope you will share your artworks and the comments because I'm so curious to see them, and please rate and review this class because this is truly so important and see you in my next classes. Bye.