If I had to name my favourite sketching spots it would definitely be cafes. Cafes are really the perfect sketching locations: interiors can be beautiful and inspiring, food sometimes looks like a piece of art.

And also it’s very comfortable to draw in a cafe — there’s always a chair for you, a table, light, a bathroom and coffee of course — in other words, all that the artist may need.

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I personally have drawn in maybe 200, or maybe even more cafes all over the world. So, I’d like to share my cafe sketching experience with you. That’s why I started to film this series of classes called Cafe sketching practice.

This series is going to have several episodes. Every episode will be about drawing different types of object you can meet in a cafe, such as food, plants, furniture. And this class is the very first episode, and here I’m gonna tell you and show how to draw dishware. Because the dishes are the first thing we meet in every cafe, and also each of us has some at home, so we can practice everywhere.

As objects for this video, I chose a cup of cappuccino with a spoon, a bowl of soup and a teapot.

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This class is not going to have any long boring theory, it’s pure practice. You will see entirely my sketching process, and I will thoroughly comment on every step. I will draw with watercolor in my sketchbook, so I’ll pay some special attention to the sketching steps, working with watercolors and composition on a page.

You will learn how to:

How to create a watercolor sketch step by step
How to show the volume with watercolor
How to draw the beautiful latte-art on top of your cappuccino
How to show various textures, such as: rough and glossy metal; white and colored ceramics; surfaces of soup and coffee
How to keep harmony in terms of composition, placing objects from different photo-references on one sketchbook spread

This class can be interesting for:

sketchers
illustrators
visual artists
designers
any person who likes to draw

Your drawing level doesn't matter for this class. It is suitable for both beginners and professionals.

Enjoy!

Faridah Abdullah

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