Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
The Materials
A course by Lapin , Urban Sketcher
Slow down and connect with nature by learning how to illustrate plants and flowers using watercolors
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About the video: The Materials
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn about my sketching gear, including black fineliner, a tiny watercolor travel set (when I am painting outdoor) and a bigger watercolor set (while painting at my studio), two waterbrushes, colour pencils, colour fineliners, a sketchbook or some hot pressed 100 % cotton paper. You need very few materials to create, it’s all about observation and practice. ”
In this video lesson Lapin addresses the topic: The Materials, 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
“The Materials Now I'll talk about the material I'm using for botanical illustration. It's related to the material I use as an urban sketcher, for those who already did my course of urban sketching. To me, the main tool is my fine liner, the line work is the most important. We used a very bold one for the geometrical description, now forget about it, you won't need it anymore. You'll go for a thinner one, 0.2 is, to me, perfect. A DIN A4 scale size or a DIN A5. But if you want to draw bigger, to work bigger, use the 0.5 for some large scale. I also have here a pencil. I don't use it a lot, b...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Sketchbooking: A Meditative Approach
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
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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