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Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach

Line Techniques: The Geometry of Plants

A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher

Urban Sketcher. Barcelona, Spain.
Joined May 2020

Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors

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About the video: Line Techniques: The Geometry of Plants

Overview

“In this lesson you will sum up the geometry of several plants to understand their architecture. To draw a plant you need to understand it. The understanding comes from observation and comparison with what you already know. To accurately draw one species, you need to highlight the specificities that make this plant immediately identifiable, describing the geometry, shapes, distribution of its leaves for exemple. I will create some very quick sketches summing up different kinds of succulents and cactus, doing some sketches from the top or from the side. ”

In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: Line Techniques: The Geometry of Plants, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach. Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors.

Partial transcription of the video

“Line Techniques I: The Geometry of Plants In these lessons we'll have the first contact with these plants here. It's the time to look at them very closely and to understand the main shapes that they are made from, the geometry of each plant. We have some cactuses, we have a Euphorbia, Opuntia over there, Echeveria. All of them have a very different pattern, very different geometry, and it's what we will describe in this first contact. I will invite you to use a very bold ink pen, to not get the temptation to draw with lots of details. So, this is a 1.2, very bold ink pen. So, just go for th...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach

  • Level: Beginner
  • 98% positive reviews (1321)
  • 62561 students
  • 4 units
  • 24 lessons (5h 28m)
  • 5 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

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Lapin is an urban sketcher based in Barcelona, Spain. As a young boy, he remembers accompanying his father—an airplane technician—to his workplace to draw planes and imagine their stories. His three passions remain the same to this day: aviation, paleontology, and drawing.

In 18 years, he has filled over 200 sketchbooks, published 30 books, and was named the official air and space painter for the French Army in 2019. He’s a member of the Urban Sketching Community since 2008 and teaches Illustration Masters students at Elisava in Barcelona, as well as his own urban sketching workshops. His clients include the French Army, Air France, the City of Barcelona, Le Parisien Magazine, PlayStation, Heineken, Marks & Spencer, Aigle, Peugeot, Porsche, and Formula One.


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Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach. Illustration course by Lapin Best seller

Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach

A course by Lapin
Urban Sketcher. Barcelona, Spain.
Joined May 2020
  • 98% positive reviews (1.3K)
  • 62561 students