Urban Sketching with Concepts App

1. Intro: Hello, and welcome to another digital urban sketching course. My name is Teo, and I'm an artist, graphic designer, and urban sketcher who enjoys sketching outdoors on location. For this cost, the app we will be using is Concepts, which happens to be one of my favorite drawing apps to use when sketching outdoors. To follow along with this course, obviously, you will need the app concepts, which is available on the iPad, Android, and Windows tablets. You will need a tablet with official pen support, and by official pen support, I mean a pen that supports pressure sensitivity and palm rejection. In this course, I will show you my workflow when it comes to sketching, and I will also show you the tips and techniques that I use to sketch faster and more efficiently. While this course is suitable for beginners, it will be great if you already know the basic features of concepts and know how to use concepts. So if you are a total beginner, I highly recommend you check out the beginners course on drawing with concepts before you start this course because it's going to be easier for you to follow along if you already know how to use concepts. My goal for this course is to show you how easy it is to sketch with this app and also help you gain confidence when you are sketching outdoors on location and with confidence, your art, your sketches will just look better. Are several hands on tutors included in this course with reference photos provided for your practice purposes, and I highly recommend you submit your projects, your sketches online so that I can have a look and give you some critics on how to improve. Before we head over to the first lesson, I have a favor to ask of you. If you find this course useful, do leave this course a review so that other students can know about this course. All right, let's head over to the first lesson. 2. Tools needed: This first lesson, I want to show you the tools that you will need for this course. So you'll need the app concepts which is available on the iPad, Android and Windows tablets. Now, the version of concepts that's running on the iPad is not exactly the same as the version that's running on Android and Windows tablets. So the artworks that you create are not interchangeable, which is to say that you cannot export the file that you create on the iPad and open this file on the Android and Windows tablets. And some of the features that are available for the iPad version are not available with the Android version. But for this course, I will try to remember to use the features that are available on all the different platforms. Having a pen that supports pressure sensitivity and pump rejection is needed. With pressure sensitivity, this allows you to draw thin and thick lines, and this will make your sketches look way more interesting compared to drawing the same subject matter with consistent line width. And with pump rejection, you can rest your pump on the display while you are drawing, and this will not introduce any straight strokes. Now for concepts, you have to go inside the settings under interaction, scroll down to touch input, finger action and change or set the settings to pen Canvas. Now when I'm using my finger on the display, I will just pen the canvas. I will also not introduce any straight strokes. Not all tablets have official pen support. So if your tablet does not support the pen, then the types of pen you can use for drawing would be pens with the mash tip or the rubber tip. This is not a very precise pen for drawing. There are also pens with disk tip. And this is also not that precise for drawing, but they can be used for drawing. It's just that when you draw with pens like this, the line width will be consistent. You will not be able to get thin and thick lines like this, which are more expressive. Other items that are really useful for urban sketching will be a hat and a portable stew. And these are rather inexpensive items. So a portable stow will allow you to sit anywhere you like for sketching. 3. Gallery of my sketches: Me show you some of the sketches that I have drawn on location and talk about my style and also some of the stories behind the sketches. Now, when it comes to urban sketching, the story aspect is actually quite important. So with urban sketching, it's not just about the art. It would be great if you can incorporate some sort of story into the sketch that you brought. So for this particular sketch, it was actually drawn inside a Chinese mansion, which is more than 100-years-old. So we had a special invitation to sketch this place before it's being renovated. So we wanted to capture the original architecture before they put in the air conditioning and other concrete additions. So I use urban sketching to document places, and I was sketching with my friends who are from the urban sketches, Singapore Group. This was sketched at Tika Market. I wanted to capture the business of the wet market. Now, there are many stores selling fish. Let me show you the fish. So you don't really have to draw the fish to show the fish. Here I'm just using some ships to suggest the fish. And this sketch took me about 1.5 hours to draw and color. The sketching part is not that difficult. I mean, as you can see, it's quite detail. I mean, it's difficult, but it's not as difficult compared to coloring because there are so many things to color. Anyway, when you have more experience, you will be able to tackle such complicated scenes with ease. And I will show you how to draw such complicated scenes, how you should start scenes like that. So this is a more simplified version of a sketch. It's of this lady at the fruit stall. This is without the line art, which still looks kind of recognizable, and this is just a line art. Sometimes when the scene is very busy and complicated, it may be better to just focus on a smaller area and focus on a specific subject so that it's easier to draw. This was drawn on the train while I was commuting on the train, so it was a long commute, so I had the time to actually draw. And some of the colors were added on the train and some colors were added back at home. When sketching on trains, try to avoid eye contact so that people will not know that you are looking at them or staring at them and try not to tilt your head up and down that obviously. Otherwise, people will be wondering what you are doing and they will look at what you are drawing. Actually don't mind people looking at my sketches because I'm used to that already. I've been urban sketching since 2009 with my friends. So over the years, I have gained confidence to sketch outdoors. And not just that, I have also gained confidence to let people look at my sketch. And sometimes when people look at what I'm drawing, we may strike up certain conversations, and that may reveal more information about the place or the subject matter that I am drawing. Have two styles for drawing. One is the pencil style with pastel coloring, which is this style that you see here. That's actually a sketch of this corridor where I am at right now. It looks like a Mundane sketch, but it's still quite fun to draw and it really helps me remember this place more vividly because I spent more than an hour sitting here and sketching. This is my pencil and pastel style, and this is my ink and flat coloring style. You can see the coloring is just created with shapes. I am not very particular about coloring within the lines, you can see the color spill out of the line. Sometimes I don't even color. Cite the lines and it's okay because my style is the sketchy style. What is more important is, are you able to capture the essence of the scene? Are you able to tell the story that you want to tell? This is how the line art looks without the colors. Now, the line art should look good without the colors. The colors are just icing on top of the cake. So if your line art does not look good, adding colors later on may not help your sketch. Here's another pencil and pastle sketch. So I was sketching at this place where there is a pond with many turtles, and I wanted to capture what's happening. So what's happening is there are families who brought their kids along to feed the turtles. So we have many people in the scene in the background and we have this lady with a kid in the foreground that is feeding the turtles. This sketch, as you can see, is very loose and sketchy, but at a glance, you can see what's happening. This is how it looks without the colors. And this is how it looks with the colors. One quick way to make your sketches look more lively is to add people in your scene. And if you can add people doing something, if you can add action poses in your scene, it's automatically going to make your scene look more lively. So for example, with this sketch of this skate park, now, I was actually sketching in the afternoon and it was quite hot. So there were no skaters at this skate park yet. But I spent like 1 hour to draw, and it was towards the evening where the kids actually came to play. So there was this kid on his roller blades, and there were other kids on skateboards and also roller blades. So by adding people in your scene, it's just going to make your scene look more lively. Other way to make your scene look more lively is to add some plants, especially if you are drawing architecture or buildings where there are many solid shapes or straight lines. It's good to add some plants because these are organic shapes that are just going to make the scene look more lively. Another way to make your sketch look more lively is to add colors and the color w that you get with concepts is really great. What I mean by that is you can choose colors that work well together very easily compared to color wheels or color palettes from other drawing apps. For some reason it's just easier to pick colors from this color wheel and use them and have the colors look harmonious together. For this sketch, I actually started by sketching this part here. So these are some old shop houses here in Singapore, but it's going to be quite boring if I just draw the shop houses. So I also wanted to capture what's happening. So in this case, we were invited to sketch inside this gallery that overlooks the shophuses across the street. So I wanted to capture the activity. So we have sketchers who are seated just behind the window sketching the shop houses. So at a glance, immediately, to someone who's looking at this sketch, he or she will be able to tell what's happening. This was sketched at the Hong Kong airport while waiting for my plane back to Singapore, and I have used colored lines for drawing in addition to the black lines, and I have also used colored lines to create the title for this sketch. This are some of my friends that I met while I was in Hong Kong. I don't always have the time to color all my sketches. So sometimes I just have black and white. Line art. Oh, okay, I had some colored vehicles here for this sketch. The more you sketch, the more memories you will create and some of these memories will remain with you for the rest of your life. And that is what I really like about urban sketching. So it's not just about creating art, it's about creating memories and when you are sketching with friends, you're just having a lot of fun. And some of the stories behind the sketches may not be that obvious to people who are looking at your sketch, but those sketches will still have meaning to you. For example, this is a sketch of a bus stop in Hong Kong. So I was waiting for my friend. To go somewhere else to sketch while sketching this. As you sketch more often, you will create more memories, and some of these memories will remain with you for the rest of your life. This is why I enjoy urban sketching so much because sometimes it's not about creating the art. It's about creating this memory that you can remember. When sketching with my friends, I can remember the good times when sketching under hot weather, I can remember the heat and also the noise. Now, some of the stories behind the sketches may not be that obvious when you're looking at the sketch. For example, this is just a mundane sketch of a bus stop in Hong Kong. So it looks like there is no story, but the story is I was waiting for my friend to join me to go somewhere else to sketch. So that's the story behind this mundane sketch. Creating memories using urban sketching is so much better compared to using a camera to take photos because when you're sketching a location for half an hour or an hour or 2 hours, you will be able to remember the scene way more vividly compared to just spending half a second to press the shutter button on a camera. These are just some of the sketches that I have drawn over the years. I have used digital sketching to create a visual journal of my trips when I'm overseas and I have drawn my baby girl who was born in 2022. And this is her four months later with longer hair. I love all these sketches because they have meaning to me, and this is what urban sketching is about. It's about the art, the story behind sketches and sometimes the company that you have, the friends that you sketch with. 4. Useful settings in Concepts app: Come back. In this lesson, I want to show you some of the settings that are used to create a more fluid workflow. This is the homepage of concepts, and you can actually create folders. Here I have the urban sketching folder with all my urban sketches, and these are some of the sketches. Created by my daughter. I also have some sketches for renovation design because I'm currently moving to a new place. I'm using concepts to help me design the new place. Yeah, definitely create some folders to sort the different types of sketches or artworks that you have to create with this app. The first thing I want to show you is how to create a template file with all the tools that you use frequently. So all you have to do is tap here, create a new drawing. Let me just turn off the grid here. Now, there are eight tools you can save in this two wheel or two bar. So I'm going to save a tool here in this first slot. I'm going to tap it once, twice to call this dialogue box, and I'm going to scroll down to one of the purchased brushes that I have. It's called Watercolor B four, which is the brush that I will be using for this course. If you do not have this brush, it's alright. Just go with dynamic pen, which does the same thing except for watercolor brush, there is texture. For the second tool, just tap on it again and I'm going to choose a field brush. And for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth tools, I will use the same field brush. So go ahead and choose whichever tool you like and put them all into the two wheel. So I've already saved all the tools that are used frequently here. So let me show you what I have. This is the brush tool for drawing. I have also created this field two with this skin tone color. I have another field to with this brown color. This allows me to switch to drawing with the line. And switch to color and back to the line and switch colors very easily, very quickly. So these are the tools and colors that are used most frequently, and now I'm going to delete everything here and go back to the gallery. So now you can see there is an empty file, and this will be the template file. So next time, when you create a new drawing, you don't just tap here to create the new drawing. And if you do tap here to create a new drawing, it will actually load your previous brushes. But if you want that set of tools that you have created yourself, just tap here, duplicate and open that file, and that file will open with all the tools that you have already saved. You can see here I have two template files, one is the ink template, and one is the pencil template. Let me show you what this pencil template is. So if I want to create or draw with the pencil and past style, I will create a duplicate of this template, the pencil template, and just start with this. Now you can see I have all the tools that I have already saved. This is actually really convenient, instead of just starting with a blank file that loads the brushes and tools that you previously used, but cannot remember what they are. Next, let's go into the settings here and under interaction, scroll down to touch input finger action. So I have finger action set to pen canvas. So now when I use my finger, it will just move the canvas. I will not be able to draw or introduce any straight strokes when my finger or palm is on the display. Another good shortcut for the finger is to select. So if you use the select, if you set select to finger, you can use your finger to select things easily. And you can still pen around. Like this, that when you use your finger, it's the select tool. You can choose other tools that you commonly use and set it to your finger. Now, under pressure sensitivity, more specifically pressure response, I have this set to around 15 to 100%. If I set it to zero to 100%, let me show you what's going to happen. Let me choose the dynamic pen. The line sometimes can be too thin. So I prefer to draw with a thicker line. So if you find that your lines are too thin, you can actually go into the settings interaction and change the pressure response so that your line is not going to be too thin. Or if you find the lines too thick, you can also adjust the upper and the upper limit for this. Under the settings, you can also customize shortcuts for two finger, three finger or four finger tap. So by default, two finger will undo. And if I remember correctly, three finger will redo, but I have customized three finger to show the layers palette and four fingers to hide the interface. So if I tap with four fingers, the UI is gone and tap again and this brings back the UI. Depending on the pen you use, you may be able to customize more features. For example, if your pen has a side button, you can actually go into the settings and set what that side button can do. So you can set it to undo or select or erase. For the Apple pencil, there is this double tap shortcut which you can customize. And for the Apple Pencil P, there is also the squeeze shortcut which you can also customize. Feature I use quite often that is available on the iPad version of concepts, but it's not available with the Android and Windows version is this color palette below the wheel. This is actually a dynamic palette. If I tap on different colors, you can see the colors update, and you can choose what colors appear here. For example, if I tap on the center here and tap on this star, this will bring up the palettes. Some palettes have fixed colors and some dynamic colors where the colors will update depending on which color you select. For fixed colors, I have the vibrator, vibrant watercolor palette, and new palette. This new palette is created with colors that I commonly use. I have skin tone colors because I like to draw people, so I have color for lighter skin tone and darker skin tone. And for dynamic palette, I'm using shades. So let's say I have a box, and this box is red in color. So if I want to shade this side of the box with this dynamic palette, I can just choose a darker color and just pin the side of the box in a darker shade. So this is really useful because this can help you save a lot of time. But unfortunately, this feature is not available with the Android and Windows version of concepts yet. So switch between different palettes, you just swipe left or right. So without the dynamic palette, if I want to maybe make this color lighter, I will have to go into the color wheel to choose a lighter color. Which is fine. It's just that the dynamic palette can help you work faster. Those are the settings that are used frequently. Now, there are other settings that you can use to customize the workspace or interaction or finger gestures. So just take some time to go through the settings, and who knows? Maybe you can find a good shortcut that can make your sketching workflow more efficient. 5. Useful drawing tips: Lesson, I want to show you the techniques and shortcuts that are used frequently with concepts. The nice thing about concepts is this is a vector sketching app. So you can actually move things around very easily by selecting the things. So understanding the selection tool is very important. Let's say I want to move this box under the text here. So just tap on the selection, the arrow two. If it's not there, just tap the 22 times and choose the arrow two from the dialog box. So once the arrow tool appears, there will be this pop up that appears below. You can choose the item picker, which means you have to pick that item, or you can choose a lasso that allows you to draw over things to create a selection loop, which is what I usually do. So let's say I want to select this box and move it around, maybe move it to the right side. You can see that it doesn't move the shadow for the box. So let's undo, and that's because the shadow is on a different layer. So if you want to move everything, Make sure you tap here when you are in the selection mode to select all layers. Now when you select this, you can move the line and the shadow and every other thing on all the layers and just move it around. The next technique is lock and erase. By the way, when you're watching this, you can also practice along to get yourself familiar with all these techniques. So I'm going to draw a box here. And I want to draw another box behind. So, you know, what okay. Let's say I have some lines overshooting the first box, so I want to erase the lines. You can select the eraser tool or the slide two, and erase this. And when it comes to this particular area here, it's kind of difficult to erase this part here. So there are a few ways you can use to erase this more easily. The first way is to erase this part here. And then use the selection tool to select this and delete it. So this is one easy way. The other way is to lock the line that you want to keep. So I want to erase this line, and I want to keep this line. So use the selection tool, select the line that you want to keep. And tap on this lock button here. So now this line is locked. So when you erase this line now, you can erase over the locked line, and this is not going to affect the lock line. So this is basically how you can draw things of fast and when you need to erase things, you can select the precise object you want to erase and erase it perfectly. Rock and erase is extremely useful, especially when you are drawing overlapping subjects. So sometimes when I'm drawing something, I realize I have to draw another thing in front of all the things that I have already drawn. For example, if I want to draw a chair here and there is a box behind. I need to delete part of the box. So I have to select the lines that I want to keep, lock them, select and lock. And then switch to the eraser two to erase. So this allows me to erase the lines so easily. By the way, now that some of the lines are locked, if you want to select the chair, for example, you realize that you cannot select the locked lines. So when you are selecting, you can choose to select locked object. I'll just toggle this option off. Or what I usually do is tap on the layer where the line is, where the locked objects are, tap on the arrow button, and there will be this pop up here. Oops. Okay, there will be this pop up here and tap unlocked. So all the items on that layer will be unlocked. The next technique I want to show you is select and stretch. Because concepts is a vector drawing or sketching app, each line that you draw is actually an object. So you can select the lines individually. Let's say you want to make this line longer, there are two ways to go about that. You can select the line, delete and redraw the line to make it longer. Or you can select the line and stretch it like this. And sometimes you may need to rotate the line as well. Now sometimes when you stretch the line, you may notice the line becomes thicker, and that is because there is this skill option that is enabled. So if you want to scale or stretch the line and retain the consistent width, make sure it's stretch. Make sure the option is stretched. This will allow you to stretch it consistently. So this is very useful when you realize that you have drawn something and you feel like this line should touch the top and bottom. So this line is too short, so you can select this line and just stretch it. Or if you feel like this line is too long, you can select it again and stretch it. The next thing you have to know is how auto layer selection works. And this is very important. So if you look at the layers palette, there will be this sorting option. It's either automatic or manual, and each time you touch the layer, it will switch from automatic to manual. So I have it at automatic right now. So what this does is when you draw a line, in this case, if you draw a box here, the lines will go onto the pen layer because that's the to that I am using. And if I choose the field two, the field color will go to the field layer. In this case, it's below the line art, so this allows me to color beneath the line art. So if I have to draw something on top, the line art is above the field layer. Now, if you set the sorting to manual and you have your line art and you want to color. Now, when you color this now, Notice the shape, the color is going on top of the line. That's because if you want to add the color below the line, you now have to manually because it's manual, you now have to manually select the layer beneath first before you color. So each time you add color and you want to switch to drawing and you want to color, you want to draw, you have to select the layer manually. But if you have this set to automatic, you can draw And when you color, let's say, I want to color again, the layer selection will switch automatically for you. Let's say, I'll switch back to the line to draw, and I want to switch to color this gray. Again, the layer selection will switch automatically for you. So this allows you to switch between tools and coloring very quickly and the the tool that you use will always go onto the correct layer. The last tip that I have for you is after you have completed your sketch, always create a new layer and leave it empty. In this case, I'm also going to call this layer empty. So next time, when you open your drawing or your sketch, and you accidentally, you know, add some line somewhere, and you realize that, oh, okay, there are some straight strokes. Now, you can delete all these straight strokes very easily because they are on the empty layer. So just select the empty layer, tap on arrow tool to select all the items or objects on that layer and tap the delete button. So all the straight strokes will be gone. If you do not have this empty layer and you open your file and you accidentally left some straight strokes on your artwork, now you have to manually go in and select the straight strokes to delete them if you actually can spot the straight strokes. Having the empty layer just makes it so much easier to delete straight strokes. These are the five techniques or tips or shortcuts that are used all the time. Later on during the hands on exercises, I may show you more tips. 6. Workflow: This lesson, we will draw something really simple so that we can get ourselves familiarized with the concepts drawing workflow. Now, if you already know how to use concepts, you can skip this lesson and go on to the next lesson because this lesson is for the total beginner. Let's draw some potted plants for this exercise, and you can download the reference photo provided we are drawing plans because I don't want you to be that particular about accuracy. Because I want you to focus on the workflow. This is the same workflow that I used to create detailed sketches like this. So if you have created a template earlier, now is the time to duplicate the template. If you did not create a template, just tap on the new drawing button. So I'm going to duplicate this template that I have with all the tools that I use frequently. So I'll be using this brush, which is the watercolor before brush. If you do not have this brush, just use dynamic pen, which will react with pressure. So let's draw the pot. So this is the pot. Now, when drawing, try to, you know, draw what you see, not what you think you see because this is about urban sketching, we should draw what we see. And when drawing, try to close up the shapes or the lines properly. So try not to have gaps like this and also try not to have lines that overshoot like this. If you draw a box, try not to have lines that overshoot. Like this, it's not going to look nice. Close up the lines properly like this and do not leave gaps, do not have the lines overshoot. It's going to make your drawings look so much neater and read more clearly. Let me select the arrow two oops, select the arrow two and delete this. Next, we will draw the leaves which are overlapping the pot. Now, there are two ways you can draw the leaves. So you can draw it on the same layer as the pot, or you can create a new layer and draw the leaves on top of the pot. If you draw the leaves on the same layer as the pot, you will have to erase the part of the pot later. So just choose whichever is easier for you. So in this case, I think it's easier for me to just create a new layer on top. So that is easier for me to erase the pot later, which is on a separate layer. So let's just draw the leaves, draw it fast and loose. For this sketch, you don't actually need, you know, the reference photo. So now you can see the lines overlapping the pot. Yeah. Try to, you know, draw what you see instead of what you think you see because urban sketching is about drawing what you see. So spend some time to follow how the leaves me, how the leaves actually bend. The more time you spend observing the subject that you're drawing, the more accurate your sketch will be. And the less cartoony your sketch will look. Okay, I'm going to use my artistic license to maybe add some additional leaves. Okay, so this looks really good. So now to delete the pot, we need to select the layer with the pot. Just select the eraser and just delete. Make sure the eraser tool is deleting or erasing the active layer. Do not erase all because if you erase all, it's going to erase all the layers. So we want to erase the active layer. This is easier to delete compared to selecting all the lines, locking the lines, and then deleting the pots. I think this looks pretty good. Yeah, maybe I can add let me switch to the leaves layer and maybe add some leaves that are behind. So when you have lines like this, this is a so called T section, a T section like this. It shows that one object is in front of another object. So it will clearly show the overlap. And that is what we want when sketching. We want to have that sense of depth. So we want overlapping objects. Okay. So details, additional details on the leaves. So if you're using a pen that supports pressure sensitivity, you can just vary the pressure to get thin or thick lines. It's going to make your sketches look way more interesting. Okay, so now I think this is almost done, and now I want to merge the layer with the leaves with the pot. So I can just press this button here. Sorry, this layer here, and this pop up will appear and press this down arrow, and this will merch down. So now we have the leaves and the pot on the same layer. And now we can color the pot. Or maybe we can add some details to the pot. I mean, I want to see the interior of the pot. This maybe some additional texture this, I think it looks now doesn't look that great. So I will leave the texture to calory. So right now I have the salting set to menu because earlier on, I know, created a new layer for the leaves. So now I want to set it back to automatic. When I select this field brush, which which looks like red to me, I want to brown a brown color. This field layer is created automatically. If this field layer is created above the pen layer, make sure to drag it down. And when you drag the layer down, the salting will change to manual, so you have to set it back to automatic again. Now, all this thing with sting automatic and manual will become second nature as you practice more. Right now, it may seem confusing, but after you use concepts for a while, you will notice this sorting is actually very convenient. So now I can use this color to color the pot. And since the field layer is below the pen layer, when I am coloring, I am adding colors below the line art. Yeah. Okay, I'm not going to color so perfectly, so I'm going to just, you know, have some colors spill out of the line. I'm going to make certain parts lighter or a different color. So you can use the dynamic color palette if you have the dynamic color palette. If you're using the Android or Windows version of this app, unfortunately, there's no dynamic palette, so you have to go into the color palette to choose different colors. So I'm just adding some textures to the pot, just to create more textures. For this area here, which is really dark, I'm just going to go with this very dark brown and see how it looks. I think it looks okay. Looks fine. Okay. And now we can color the leaves. So let me just select this color, which is black now. Let me make it green. I'm not sure which green I want to use. Maybe this green. Does it look good? Okay, this looks good. I'm going to select another field brush and have a yellow green. This looks yellow. Now I can use this green to color the leaf here. And just well, spend some time to color. So I'm not again, very precise with my coloring. I'm having some of the colors spill out because sometimes when I'm sketching, I'm drawing really fast, it's very difficult for me to color within the shapes all the time. And for this app concepts, there is no field bucket tool, so I cannot just click on this enclosed area and have the green feel the area. I have to, you know, redraw the shape. And now I can switch to the yellow color to maybe create some highlights. And I can also maybe add darker green. Let's see if it works. Okay. This works. So I can add a darker green to create some shadows. For example, this part here, it's underneath. So that will be darker. Yeah. So it's good to create some areas of highlight and also shadows in your sketch so that there is contrast. If everything is just a single color, it's going to look kind of flat. Okay. We have this white area here that I did not color. So I'm going to tap hole so that I can use the eye dropper or color picker. Now, if you type hole and the color picker does not appear, you may have to, you know, tap the option here, the pop up option. So this looks good. Let me tape hole and maybe change to a different color. Yeah, so let me just add some texture to it maybe I can use this color to color the back. This looks fine. Yeah. You can go ahead and draw the wooden support. If I go ahead and draw the wooden spot by using the pent. Notice, as I select the pent, the layer actually switch to the pen or the watercolor layer. Now I can draw the support that this pot is on. This is just my artistic impression of the support. And if I want to color this, I just tap maybe this color, change it to brown. And once I select the field to, the layer automatically switches to the field layer. So now I can use this to color the field layer. If I feel like I need more details with this, I select the pen tool or the watercolor brush tool and just add more details, and this will be drawn on the correct layer. Now if I turn off the colors, you can see it looks like this. If I turn off the line art, it looks like. If you feel like you have to delete some lines, just use the selection tool and delete the lines. Yeah. If you are selecting the lines and you also select the colors, just make sure you are selecting the correct layer. I want to select the lines on the current layer, so I have bit set to active layer. Yeah. So let me switch back to the pento and maybe rod like this. Now, let's say I want to add some shadows for the pot and also the support. So the downside of concepts is there is no multiply layer. There's no blending mode. So to add shadows, you actually have to choose a color. You cannot choose gray and overlay onto color. So let me select this color and set to a darker shed so that I can draw oh, sorry, I'm using the wrong tool. I should select the field tool, use eyedropper to select this color and then choose a darker shed for this color. Okay, so this is the darker side. So once you add shadows like this, the scene immediately looks more three dimensional. I can also add shadows for this pot, so I have to choose a darker version of this color. Let's choose this and see if it looks fine. I think it looks okay. Yeah, it looks fine. I can also add some shadows beneath the leaves just to give it more contrast. Yeah, so that the leaves appear to be floating in space above the pot. Yeah, it looks good. Yeah. So without blending mode, if I want to change this wooden color to maybe purple color, I will also have to change all the shadows. I have to choose, you know, darker purple for the shadows. But if there is blending mode, which this app doesn't have, I can just choose the brown and change it to purple, and all the shadows will up automatically. Yeah, so that's one downside when it comes to painting darker shadows with concepts. So far, there are only two layers. So let me just add another layer for the shadow on the ground. And for that, I want to have this gray color. And I'm going to tap here to rename this layer called maybe ground. And now I can add this shadow here like this. Hey, maybe we can have some shadows from the plant one that looks like this. Okay. So with multiple layers, if you want to turn off certain layers, maybe you just don't want the shadows behind, you can just turn it off. Now with concepts, if you want to focus on a specific layer, you can double tap and it will focus on that specific layer while turning the visibility off for the other layers. All right, so that's pretty much it for this warm up sketch, which you can see is quite simple. In the next lesson, we will draw something more complicated and something more challenging. Oh, I almost forgot to write the date and write the place as well if needed. And don't forget to create the empty layer above and also change the file name. I'm just going to call this 2024 or 624d plant. The reason why I name my files with the year followed by month and day so that I can sort my sketches chronologically because for some reason, with concepts, when you open a file or a sketch that you have created a long time ago and you close it the date here will be updated to the latest date. This is not the creation date. Also if you create a duplicate, the duplicate creation tip will be based on the duplicate or the template file. With the numbers, the year in front of the filename, this allows me to sort the files chronologically. 7. Looking for things to sketch: Come to Chinatown Singapore. Let's walk around and see if there are any interesting things to sketch. And I just realized I forgot to bring my cat. When you're out sketching at a place that you have never been to be careful. Always be aware of your surroundings. Be aware of traffic, people, pick pockets. Yeah. Be careful when you're crossing the street. Crowded places can be quite challenging to sketch because there are always people walking in front of you to block your view. And also drawing people that are moving, walking, that is quite challenging. Drawing people having people in your scene is going to make your sketches look way more lively. So this is where having a portable stool is very convenient because you can just place your stool wherever you like to sit and sketch. If you do not have a portable stool, it's going to be more challenging, more difficult to find a place to sit and sketch or you can stand and sketch. But it's going to be quite tiring to stand and sketch. Before you start your sketch, it's always great to think about what you want to capture. What do you want to show in your sketch. So that's the storytelling aspect. If you are just drawing an isolated object, for example, the potted plant earlier, it doesn't really show the space or the location where you are at. So that's not really urban sketching because with urban sketching, you really want to show, where you are, the environment, the place, the location. So this is where you can see many old folks play chess, and this place is just inside the Buddha tub Relic temple, which you can see is quite a challenging. Building to sketch. Sometimes it's good to create a few quick sketches first just to warm up, just to get into the mood of sketching. So I'm going to sketch the old folks playing chess. And hopefully later when the sun is in the correct direction, I will find a good spot to sketch the temples. If you feel self conscious when you are sketching out at, you can choose a place where your back is against the wall so that no one can stand behind you to see what you are sketching. Or you can choose to sketch in the cafe where everyone else is doing their own stuff and they will not be looking at you to see what you're doing. So this is the view that I'm looking at, and I can barely see the chessboard because there are so many people blocking the view of the chessboard. So this is something you should anticipate when sketching, people blocking your view, vehicles that will suddenly come in front to park in front of you to block your view. But with sketching, I can choose not to draw the people in front of the chessboard. Alright, now I have a much better view of the chessboard. And I can also see the faces of the players, but this is not going to last long because there will definitely be people walking in front of the chessboard later to block my view. So right now I'm seated on my portable stool. It's best to make yourself as comfortable as possible when you're sketching because sketching takes time. Okay, I probably should have mentioned this earlier. Always remember to charge your tablet 100% before you head out because you really do not want your tablet to run out of battery, while sketching. Alright, let's sketch. 8. Sketching chess players (pt 1): I have the tablet on my lap and the battery life is 59%, which is not ideal, so I'll have to sketch fast. I have already duplicated the template and renamed the foul so let's spot. I'm going to tap on this custom layer and rename it draft. So I'm going to use light blue to create some drafting lines first just to get the composition. It's good to create some drafting lines first, some very loose lines just to get the shapes, the people in the scene at the correct sizes. And if you make any mistakes at this stage, that's great, because you can avoid making the same mistakes later on. So while drawing, pay very special attention to propulsion, like an alignment, pay attention to alignment. The drafting stage does not require much details, pay attention to alignment. For example, the head of this person is slightly higher compared to the head of this person. The arm of this person is below the head of this person. Sorry, below the head. Okay. The legs come out here, goes below the corner of the table. So what I'm describing is the precise location of where each element is relative to other elements that I have already drawn. So I can see the chess board, which is great. But later on, there will be people blocking my view. So it's good to draw whatever you can draw first before your view gets blocked. There are actually many people behind watching other chess players. So let me just brow this person that is standing. This is the body. You know what? Let me just select everything and change the color to lack so that you can see more easily. And because this is vector, later on, I can change all the colors back to blue again. So this is not something you can do with other drawing apps. Yeah. So at this stage, just focus on getting the proportion accurate. Make sure the people are sized correctly relative to other people in the scene. Okay. I'm just going to focus on these two players. As for the other players behind, I may draw the crowd behind later if I have time. But right now, I just want to focus on this. And this will be a good warm up as well because it's not that complicated a scene to sketch. So once I'm done with this, I can select everything and change the color back to light blue. And I'm going to select the watercolor layer. Make sure the sorting is set to automatic and change the color of the pen back to lack hoops. This select everything first and change the color back to black. Okay. So now the sorting is automatic, and I'm drawing on the watercolor layer or the pen layer. And we can start. Don't rush, you know, draw what you see. If you rush, there is a tendency to make mistakes. So the slower you draw, the more careful you will be, and believe it or not, the less mistakes you make, the faster you can complete your sketch. Okay, so this arm here starts here. It's behind the head, right? So this is alignment. By the way, I have another course on turban sketching with alignment techniques. So do watch that if you have not. We have the hand, fingers here. I am not being very precise. I'm just well, drawing. So just make sure you close up the lines and don't leave open caps. So let's zoom in and have a look at the eyes. Let's draw the mouth. If the line looks like it's too thick, you can always adjust the brush size. Okay, I think this looks pretty good. There is now a person standing in front of the chessboard that is blocking my view, so I'm going to draw other areas first because that person is actually standing here. And later when the person moves away, start drawing that area first because other people are going to come in and block the view again. Oops. Let me just disable the pen shot cut first. So with the drafting lines that I have already drawn, it really helps keep everything in perspective at the correct size. It is good to draw some people watching the chess play so that you get a sense of the crowd and how popular this is in this neighborhood. Okay, the person has just walked away and now I can draw the hand. So you can see there's this line that overlaps the hand. Let me just delete this. Let me just delete this first and erase this. Remember, you can always lock this line and erase the line. But here, it's just I can just erase this very easily. I'm also using my thumb to switch between the French shot cuts. Hey, let's draw the chessboard. Let's draw some chess. Because we are so far away from the chessboard, I don't actually have to draw the pattern on the chessboard. I just need to draw, you know, the chess bits, whatever they are called. Yeah. So I'm trying to draw faster now because I have already warmed up. This person is wearing a collared shirt. Looks like an omen with a hunchback. The hand is positioned like this. Sorry. The hand. The thumb is here, but the fingers are here. Okay? We have the legs. Adding some texture to the fall. We have the person wearing slippers. The other leg is behind, so we have this overlap here. We have the chair here, some perspective lines here. We have the other leg. So when you are drawing, try to think about consistency. For example, if you can see one leg, maybe you should also be able to see the other leg. For example, there's one leg here for the guy. Oops. So the other leg should be somewhere here. Anyway, just draw based on observation, based on what you see. Sometimes I like to add vertical lines to suggest the direction of the plane. In this case, this is facing me. I'm adding some texture to suggest the direction of the plane. There are some checked pieces here. Let me just erase this part. And this guy's elbow, sorry, hand is actually resting on this area here. So let me just erase this part and have the hand here come down like this. Four fingers here. The thumb is barely can barely be seen. We have a t shirt here. Yeah. So it looks like this. There is a secret in his mouth. Okay, looks good. This step is coming to life. There is another man here behind Hooks. So just spend time to draw. You don't have to rush, draw slowly, draw carefully. Make sure alignment is correct. If you have to if you make mistakes, you can always select the line and delete it to gains. So this guy is seated on a chair behind. The leg should be like this. Yeah. So here you can see the overlapping subjects. This eyebrow looks weird. Well, let me just delete this. And now I can turn off the dropping lines. So, believe it or not, this sketch is almost complete. So now I want to, you know, draw maybe the crowd in the background. So for the crowd in the background, you know what? Just you don't have to add much details. Just draw the shapes. Hey, we have this guy here. We have another guy here looking at another chess play behind. The main thing to note when sketching people in the back is try to get the proportion right. For example, the bottom of the T shirt aligns with the head here. And the bottom of this shirt aligns to the bottom here. So alignment is very important but drawing. For elements in the background, people in the background, you don't really have to add that much detail. And this person that I'm drawing, he has just walked off. So when you see someone walk past and draw that person very quickly, because the person who has just stopped may stop for a longer time compared to someone that has already been standing there for a long time. Okay, so this sketch, believe it or not, is almost done. Just need to add more people in the background. You can see at this stage, my sketches don't really have much detail now. So this guy is putting his arm behind his head. Wow, there are actually a lot of people watching the chess, so I just want to, you know, draw as many as I can, given the amount of time that I have. Now, this part here is not very clear. So when you're drawing, try to think about clarity. Like how can you make the person behind more clear? So in this case, I may want to draw another person just standing further away so that the bodies are not merged together. Okay, so, believe it or not, this sketch is the line art is conflt. So now all we have to do is to color 9. Sketching chess players (pt 2): So to color, I'm going to use the well, skin to colors that I have here. Make sure the sorting is still set to automatic. So now I can use this to feel the colors really quickly. I'm not being very precise here. I'm not filling in the colors within the lines. I'm just going as fast as I can. So try to color everything that's of the same color at the single go. Because if you have to quit switching to other colors and come back to this skin color and switch and come back, it's not very fluid because you are always switching colors. Okay, this looks good. Let me switch to this color called the shirt here. I may also want to have a darker skin colour for areas that are, you know, not getting the light. Adding shadows will also make your sketch look more dimensionally. Hey. Let's have a y. This guy seems to be wearing a yellow shirt. Anyway, the color is not that critical. I actually cannot see the guy he's wearing a white gray shirt. So if you color wrongly, no problem. Select the object and change the color like this. Yeah. It is that easy with concepts. As you sketch, there will be many things you will learn. Okay, we have the seeds which are black. And we have the darker areas above. This is not very clear. Yeah, this is not very clear because I lost the line art. So let me use this color. Okay. I just realize what happened. So this line art is not completely black. This is black. Which is fine, I guess. Okay. Okay, let's have this guy wear some jeans or gray. Hey. I'm going to use this same color, type and hole for the color picker. Use the same color to color this. I'm going to make this darker. So let's choose a darker color for this area here, which is in shape, this is black. This I'm going to use this black here for the table. Okay. For the chess board, I'm going to have some highlight. I'm going to mark the boundary of the chessboard green so that it stands out against the white. Oh, this is to create contrast. So when you're sketching, you should be thinking about contrast. If certain areas do not stand out, how can you create contrast? Okay, this part of the table is supposed to be black, but I'm going to leave it white so that it can contrast against the black ants that this guy is wearing. I'm going to have this guy wear neutral gray. Or maybe another guy will wear a neutral blue. Notice this arm that I that I had forgotten to color. So let me just use the eyedropper and color this. I will switch to black to color the hair. Okay, so you can see the sketches coming to life very quickly. So this is real time sketching and I'm sketching really fast. Okay, this sketch is almost complete. I'm going to have yellow here. Because I feel like this blue color contrast in contrast with the yellow. And for all these people in the background, I'm going to have them wear very neutral pastel light colored shirts. Okay. So right now this sketch is still looking kind of flat. So let's add, you know, some shadows. So I'm going to add some shadows for this guy here. I'm going to make the shirt darker. The light sauce is coming from the left. So we are going to have some shadows on the right. We can have fun with the colors. Yeah. Shadows don't always have to be of the same color. I think this looks fine. This looks all right. Let's have one of this. So now you can see this gray, they are all looking kind of similar because the value is very close. So I want to create stronger values, stronger contrast. So this area here is just flat. We need to add some shadows so that we can get the form. We can see the form more clearly. I'm going to add some details on the chair, so let me switch to the brush or the pento again and just tap. Tap. So as I switch to the pen, the layer is automatically switched to the pen layer. I'm going to add some texture here as well. Switch back to the field two. Eye dropper this guy and paint more shadows because the light source is coming from the left. So remember earlier I talked about consistency. So the light source is coming from the left, so this part here should be in shape. Yeah. And this guy as well. Eye dropper or color pickers to select the color and choose a darker color. And this guy as well. Again, the light sauce is coming from the lab, so this will be in shape. Let's add some colors to the bot. We will have some red. Oh, that's not red. Doesn't matter, which we can choose red now. Okay. Alright, so this sketch is done. Now, it looks like these people are floating in space, so it would be good to, you know, add some context as to where they are. So you can add some structure to the well to the scene. So I'm going to create a new layer and I'm going to, you know, maybe add some structure behind. Maybe we can add a lamp post here. Just to just to create some details just to get a sense of space. There is actually an umbrella here. So let's maybe draw the umbrella. I also want to maybe draw a chair. I actually wanted to draw a chair behind, but I'm just going to skip that. This part here is not consistent because there is no shadow on him. So let's put some shadows here, books, wrong brush. Use the field brush, make sure you are coloring on the correct layer and just paint the shadows in. Yeah, so with the shadows in, now you can see this guy is just more dimensional. Looks more dimensional. I may also want to add some shadows beneath the feet. And this is a weight chair. Okay. I think this is done. So let's turn off the colors and have a look. You can add more details if you want to. But at this stage, this is already done. So remember to create the empty layer above to protect your heart. I'm going to call this empty. And now I can see there are many people standing in front of the chessbd. So what I can do is maybe create a new layer and switch to a different color. So this is where you can have fun with drawing with concepts. So maybe I will draw another person here with standing hoops. So this person is just standing and watching. And I'm not going to color this person, so I'm just going to leave this person out as the orange line. So he's watching the people playing the chess. You have the hands here. I need to erase this line here. So let me erase it. Draw some fingers. This is the leg. This is the pants. Shoes. So just wow what you see. Yeah. Okay, so we have one person standing here. Let me just erase this part here, maybe have the hands come down like this. Okay, this looks good. This looks really good. Maybe I can switch to another color. Maybe yellow. Yeah, maybe yellow can work. Maybe I can draw a person. Maybe I can add a new layer to draw this person. So if this doesn't work, you can just turn off the layer. Okay, so we have this person here. Another thing when it comes to creating a new layer is if you don't like the yellow, you can change this color to something else. The hand is behind the back. Okay, so this is kind of difficult for me to see. So let me just select everything and change the color to something else, maybe green. No, it doesn't work. Let's change it to blue. Doesn't quite work as well. Let's maybe change it back to Blue. Alright, let's just leave it as it is right now. And just raw it Okay, we have the leg here. This guy is wearing a pair of sandals. I cannot see the other leg because it's blocked by someone, so let me just use my artistic license to, you know, draw the legs. So this part here is actually not that clear. So I have to choose a color that works well for this. Let's see. Orange seems to work. Maybe it's the positioning of this person. So let me just select this and maybe move this out of the way. Or maybe it doesn't work for this person to stand here. So let me just select this person and do a scale. Make sure the option is scaled so that when you scale this person down, it's scale proportionately. And also you can tap on the display to scale it proportionately, as well. So maybe let's put this person somewhere in the pack. Maybe here. Maybe somewhere in the back there. This could work. Yeah. Alright, so this is the completed sketch. Don't forget to write down the name of the place. This is Chinatown, Singapore. And today's date is 24 of June 2024. And I'm going to sign my name somewhere else. Maybe I'm going to sign my name here. Yeah, so that it's not that of yours. Okay. Almost done. I just need to make sure this bag looks like a Back. Okay, uh. 10. Sketching a Chinese temple (pt 1): Now for the next tutoro where we will draw this temple, and this is going to be quite challenging. But the good thing is the light is actually facing this side, which is what I want. I want to draw from this side view so that I can see the front or the back of this temple and the side of the temple. That's where I will be sitting. Back against a wall with a postbox by the side so that it's very unlikely for people to stand behind me. I will try to simplify this scene as much as possible. So let's once again start by duplicating the template file and renaming it to 024624 temple. Let's open the file, select the custom layer, which I'm going to name as raft. And I'm going to use black lines first because I realize I can just use black lines and then change the color of the line later. So I am seated. So let me just draw the horizon line first. So this horizon line is the line that intersects the bottom of the t shirts for all the people walking in front of me. So if I draw a person here, this is the bottom of the t shirt. This is the height of the t shirt. If there is another person here and this is the bottom of the t shirt, this is the height of that person. There is a VP vanishing point on the left side, but it's very far left, so we cannot see it. So to draw the temple here, we need to measure. We have to draw from observation. So at this stage, just draw the big shapes first. Make sure they look right as they look accurate. H Okay, blocking out the big ships. Anyway, this is going to be an extremely stylized sketch because I have no intention to draw all the details for this temple. I mean, if I have the time, if I have a lot of time, I guess I can, you know, draw all the details. But to draw a temple like this, it's probably going to take at least 3 hours. I have to draw all the details. So just block out the shapes first. Block out as much of the building as you can. Okay, this is looking pretty good. So this roof here is between this point and this point. And the roof ends here. Comes down like this. We have another roof here starts here. Yeah, almost at the midpoint of this roof, starts here, go up like this, comes here, and slightly at this point here. Let me just erase this part. I goes down oops, goes down like this. We have this thing here. Yeah. Wow, this is This is exceedingly challenging to sketch. Okay, there is a VP here, vanishing point here. I think I should probably put in my lines just so that so that I can make the mistakes at this stage at the drafting stage so that I don't make the mistakes later on. Okay, so all these lines at the right edge, they should go to the VP. So I'm using some perspective knowledge to help me sketch the perspective lines. And we have some skyscrapers in the background, and I shall just leave the skyscrapers out first as a tree here. Some shop houses behind. Okay. Um Where's the Oh, okay. This is the as I mentioned earlier, this is the horizon. So there are still some bits beneath the horizon. Yeah. Okay. I think this looks this looks okay. So let's select everything. Change the color to light blue. Yeah, change it to a light blue color. And now let's go back to the pen layer or the watercolor layer, set something to automatic, select the pen you want to use, and let's sketch. Um, yeah, so this is the part where I dread because Oh, wow. Um, this is This is exceedingly difficult to draw. So this is it's going to be quite impossible for me to draw all the details. So I'm just simplifying as much as possible. Just drawing the shapes to make sure the shapes look recognizable. This thing here comes down like this. There are some structure that's holding the balcony. There are four of them, so we have one here. Let's draw the one at the outer edge first. Now, all the details that you see me draw this is just This is just artistic impression. Alright? I guess I can just draw the shapes to make sure the shape is almost recognizable. But it would be I wouldn't say it's impossible to draw all the details. It's just that you need the time to sketch all the details. Yeah, that's the issue that I have right now because I don't have that much time. Okay, so let me just mark out the bigger structure of the temple. Yeah, four columns one, two, three, four. We have the temple, roof here, here. Let's have some circles up here. Wow. As the details or as the object is further away, I have to make sure that some of the diss are smaller. Like the circles that I draw, they have to be much smaller. So for the circles in front, you can draw them bigger, but for the circles behind, you have to draw them smaller. Let's have the structure again. I'm switching between drawing the structure, the structure with the straight lines and the structure with the curved lines. I hope it makes sense. Fall pillars again. Three pillars on the side. Yep. We have the tree here. So while sketching it may be good to skill zoom in and zoom out just to have a look at your overall sketch. Having the drafting lines drawn earlier really helps significantly. Helps a lot. I have some windows here for the windows, for the shop houses behind. I'm just going to have it as a vertical rectangle. But there are actually a lot more details for the windows. But this amount of detail is alright for something that is in the background. This line looks a bit too straight for the tree. So let's select this, trash it. Let's undo. Okay. Yeah, I need to make sure I'm selecting the active layer. Select this, thrush it, and draw a tree where the trunk is tilted at an angle. Yeah, this looks better. Okay. Yeah. It is actually quite difficult for me to explain the perspective of this building because there are too many things to explain. But the main thing here is just block out the general shapes. Like, how I would think about this is if you have to draw this temple with, say, 50 lines, you're only limited to using 50 lines to draw this temple. What are the lines that you should use to draw the temple? Yeah. So that is how you can think when it comes to drawing the drafting ones and also drawing the structure. You know, sometimes when I'm drawing, the shortcuts keep activating. So I'm going to turn off the shortcut for the squeeze as well. Yeah, do nothing. Yeah. Sometimes the shortcuts are useful, sometimes they just affect my workflow. There are four pillars in one, two, three, four, this white balcony goes down to the vanishing point. We have another roof here. We also need to draw, you know, the rails for the balcony. And now the flies are coming to disturb me the one thing that I hate about sketching outdoors is flies nts. I can tolerate the heat. I'm fine with the weather. I'm fine with the noise, but wow, ants flies, man. There are I just don't like. Yeah. Okay, so maybe you can add some people. So this is not No this black line has to be moved. Let me just delete this and draw this again. Yeah. Okay, I think this is better. This is better because this line here, this blue line is the horizon, so we need people to be here. There is a potted plant here. So as you can see, this sketch is very loose, exceptionally sketchy, but it still looks like the temple. We need to draw the entrance of the temple, by the way. We have four pillars here, one, two, three, four, and we also have some steps here. Let me just rotate this so that I can draw the steps easily. We have people doorways, there is this big urn here. We have more people, more people, and more people. Let's draw some, you know, tall buildings in the background as well, just to give this sketch some context. Like, where is this temple? So this temple is actually located on the outside the city area. Yeah. Just outside the city area. So it's good to add some skyscrapers in. And for the skyscrapers, I'm just going I'm just going to suggest lines. There won't be much details. So this does not have to be very precise. Buildings in the background, objects in the background, they don't have to be that precise. 11. Sketching a Chinese temple (pt 2): So this sketch took me 13% of battery to create, to draw. And now let's hope I have enough battery to color this. So just color the big shapes first. Yeah, so just color the big shapes first and we can worry about the details later on. In fact, I think I will just use this red to color the whole tem fold because there is a lot of red. I can add back the white later on. Yep. So now I can go back to add the white one, two, three, four, five, six. This part here is white, or white. I am not again, being very precise when it comes to color ring. So this part is white. Some white areas here. Sometimes when sketching, you don't actually have to, you know, draw exactly what you see, use exactly the same colors. Sometimes you can just use your artistic license to change things up. Some sign boards here. Okay. So areas are darker because they are under the shade. So let me just select this color by using the color picker, tap and hole, color picker, select the darker color. Is this color dark enough doesn't seem so You see, this is where the dynamic palette is very useful. Let me see if I can use this color. This looks darker, yes, but not as dark as I want. So, let me just choose a color from this palette. Okay, this looks okay. So this looks okay. So just choose a darker color to color the shaded reas underneath. Yeah. I will also need to add some gold color later because I can see the top of the roof as some gold trims. Let's have the white here. Switch back to the shadow. So, as mentioned earlier, it's good to have highlights and shadows. So this part here has shadows. Hm. This part here has shadows. We see some, I see some white here. And here as well. Here as well, maybe we can have some gray. So let's have a gray darker gray perhaps because some pots are actually under the shade. Okay, let's have some, you know, this black color here, a darker gray for this urn, a lighter gray for the ground. And for the tree, let's have a neutral green pastle light green. This part here should be red. Oh, it's not red. It's actually not red. It's actually gray. Yeah, so the roof is actually gray, or at least the part where I can see. So this right side here is the shadow side. So this part here is going to be darker. So let's make it more obvious that the right side here is darker. You have the tree. Let's have a darker shed for the tree to suggest the light source, which is on the left side. Let's have some orange building, orange roofs. Okay. Let's have a gray. For this building which is in shape parts of the skyscrapers are in shape. Okay. This sketch is coming along quite nicely, very nicely, I must say. Some of the skyscrapers here are blue light blue. Let's see if I can get a light intralblue for one of the skyscrapers here. Maybe a darker purple, may, light color. Let's use the same green for this tree here so that the colors look harmonious. Let's have a brown for the pot. Let's erase the bottom of the pot. Go back to the fuel layer. Let's add some colors. Oops. Let's have orange. Let's maybe have green, maybe a blue. So black for the windows and also for the bottom here, which is very dark. Let's have a lighter gray for this part of the road. This part here is lighter because there is glass that is reflecting the sky. Okay, and looks. This sketch is almost complete. What else? Okay, I need to add the gold colored details for the. So let's create a new layer above, which I'm going to call details. And I'm going to select the pen, change the color to yellow, and just add the gold colored. Okay. So as you can see, this is very sketchy, very, very sketchy. Just some details to suggest a roof with the ends that have the gold color. This is looking pretty good. Just make sure that whenever you are coloring, you're coloring on the well, correct layer, which is quite important to create certain areas to make certain areas to give certain areas more contrast. I can add maybe black. Let's try. Let's see if we can add some black. So I'm not sure. So I'm going to create a new layer. Just to see whether it makes sense to add to make certain areas black. So let's have black. This is not black enough. There are three blacks in concepts. There is 100 and 110, and then there is black. So if you want pure black, it's black. This is not easy to use. I think it works. Sort of works. So because it sort of works, I will keep this layer. Under the details, I want to add an orange line because it seems like there is an orange line here. It's not straight enough. No, not straight enough. Let me just adjust the straightness. Yeah. So this looks I think this looks better. Now, when you have no idea what else to draw or whether you should add more details, that is the time where you can actually start adding details. Let's add some texture to the tree. So remember earlier in one of the earlier lessons, I mentioned that you can make the scene look more likely by adding plants, adding people. Yeah, this is pretty much what I am doing right now adding plants. There is a balcony here, so I'm not sure if I should draw the balcony with black. Maybe I can. Yeah, let's just draw the balcony with black. I was actually thinking on drawing the balcony with the rails with red. But if I do so, the red may not stand out against the red. Yeah. And the last thing I want to do is maybe Oh, there are some window grills here. Maybe I should draw the window grills. Okay, let's add another layer for the sky. New layer, and drag this down to the bottom. So this will be sky. Even though it's quite a cloudy day today, I still want to add the sky. I'm going to add a very light blue for the sky. I think this looks fine. Yeah, this actually looks fine. I just need to use white to look out this area here. And this area here here and maybe use the white to add some clouds even though there are no clouds. I'm adding on the wrong layer. I should be drawing on the clouds layer. Okay. So for the clouds that are further away that are lower down closer to the horizon, just make the clouds smaller. For clouds that are, you know, just above you, you have to draw them bigger. Okay, so this sketch is done. Let me just write the name of this temple. So this is the completed sketch, which is difficult to draw, yes. But as long as you create the drafting lines at the start of the sketch before you sketch, that will help a lot. That will actually help immensely because when you make mistakes at the start with the dropping lines, you can avoid making those mistakes when you're drawing. But if you draw straight with ink with black, Um, you're bound to make more mistakes unless you are really careful. And if you are very careful while you're sketching, it's going to take a much longer time. So by creating the drafting lines at the start of the sketch, it actually helps you sketch much faster later on. So now I'm just adding the details. I may also want to add some details here on the side. Basically just have the drawing fit into the white on the left side. I've got to say that I am actually quite satisfied with this sketch. Even though it looks even though it doesn't look that sketchy. Okay, let me show you the focus mode again. So I just want to see the line art. So let me just double tap this and this will show you the line art. It looks certainly looks better with the colors. 12. Outro: We have come to the end of the course. I hope you have enjoyed the course, and I hope you enjoy sketching with concepts because I really had a lot of fun sketching this app, and I also had a lot of fun making this course today, just walking around, sketching, looking for things to draw. It is just a lot of fun. So don't forget to send in your sketches or your projects and let me have a look because I would really love to see what you guys have created. And if you have any questions regarding the app, let me know in the command section or you can email me directly with your questions. And lastly, don't forget to leave this course a review if you enjoy the course so that other students can know how good this course is. Thanks for watching. See you guys in the next course. Aye.