Vacation Postcards Series - Part 1 - Sketching People and Places with Coloured Pencils

1. Introduction: Hello. My name is Mona, and I'm an artist based in Montreal, Canada. Vacation season is in full swing now, and I want to invite you to the vacation postcard series. In these bite size classes, we will explore various ways of quickly capturing people and places using different materials. We will use smaller size paper roughly the size of a postcard. And who knows, at the end of class, you might want to even mail your creations. In this first class of the Siri's, we will use predominantly colored pencils. The same creative process off course can be easily applied to work in your sketchbook or on different sized papers. And I can't wait to see the postcards that you will be uploading to the Class Project gallery, So let's get started. 2. Materials: you don't need any fancy materials for this class, and most likely, you already have everything you need on hand paper. I used W no mixed media paper, but any paper suitable for dry media is good. Bristol Paper Growing paper, hot pressed watercolor paper. I cut the shooting four pieces about the size of a postcard. I find it this size is easy to carry around, just also a few pieces of paper and a couple of pencils in a bag before heading out for the beach or the park and you're all set. You could also use recycled papers from packaging, cereal boxes, etcetera. Fassel's just a few callers will no need to carry lots of them around. I used Kali raise in this case this sorry, risible color pencils and are a bit walks here than regular colored pencils rummaging in my powers of supplies. In preparation for this class, I found them, and I realized that I have not used them in many years, so I decided to give them another chance. You can off course use whatever colored pencils you have on hand. I also used the magic pencil, which are colored pencils that have multiple colors in the same lead. Watercolor brush and waters. I like the paper, the backgrounds ahead of time in one of the ways to do this is two years, watercolors on any brush will go for this purpose and know that we're all set. Let's start sketching. 3. Preparing the background: this step is not mandatory, but it is something that I like to do. Often. I find that it adds an element of surprise to the final sketch. I simply and random splashes of color on the paper ahead of time. I do this on and on pages in my sketchbook US wealth. When I get to the pre painted pages, I try to incorporate the existing marks in the final design for this class, I added colored marks on the fore postcards that I cook off offer sheet of Fabbiano mixed media paper. I know the postcards already to be sketched on. 4. Sketching people: I use the restoration pictures I took of the beach last time I visited my sister in order What? I work the same way when I'm out on location. I just to schedule this woman with a Pereiro on this paper because the existing months remind me off a piece of cross in the winds I'm using. Think on purple pencils and I start sketching by looking mostly at the reference image and concentrating on getting the shapes. That's right. It's possible. I want to capture the feel of the scene and the movement more than making a photographic coffee of the seventies at the same time. I'm tryingto work as fast as I can because people don't know stayed put for too long. Sometimes we catch an interesting movement when we take pictures to like. In this case, I called the movement of the cloth in the winds that lasted just distractions of a second. I would not have been able choose sketch it fast enough on location. - I had some shading with a darker pencil on the figure, a swell of cloth. - When I get at this stage, I usually stop and they will visit the sketch later in case I want to add more details. So here it is, a snippet of memory recorded on paper in just a few moments. 5. Sketching places: this time I found inspiration on the Internet, the picture of a house somewhere in a tropical function because it made me dream about vacation by the ocean. I am using a bigger size spacer, about half of the mixed media sheep. I splatter some color ahead of time, and I'm going to use some of this platters to depict the shaded area of the windows. I sketched the main shapes once again, then are more definition with a darker pencil, and some shading us well for the vegetation. I use the magic pencil and make various marks to suggest branches, leaves and Berries. I live most of the paper wife because I want to suggest the bright light that we often encounter when we traveled to the tropics. I will set aside now this sketch and visited later in case I want to add something else. But for now, I think it is that 6. Conclusion and class project: I felt inspired towards something else. So these sketches the close, many think about butterflies, so I transformed the barrio in by the fly wings. This, in turn, gave me an idea for further explorations, and I want to create a story character in the form of a creature with wings. This sketch of somebody taking a nap on the grass made me think about magic carpets. So added the carpet and some clouds with watercolor suggests that she's flying or maybe dreaming or flying in her drink. I'm finding this sketch is well for future use for a story character. For the first sketch, I decided to place the man on a thing unstable platform and facing something that looks like a war for the house. I decided to paint the sky right here long to make the house stand out more and also emphasize the light on a sunny day. The pictures that I use this inspiration are in the video attached to the clock. I provided that much examples only. This is about you, your sketches on how you choose stranger with what you see. You can also use blank force cards or greeting cards if you want to go the old fashioned route and made in smell your creations. I hope that you enjoy this class and then you create many records of your vacation moments . Don't forget to upload them to the classic gallery. I can't wait to see what you make. See you soon in the next episode of the vacation postcards Siri's uncle, then happy sketching.