urban sketches blog by Alvaro Carnicero

How I draw

STORY OF THREE SKETCHES: My speech in the course TRAVEL SKETCHBOOKS: The city and the landscape

This is the speech I gave during the course of the UNIA entitled TRAVEL SKETCHBOOKS: The city and the landscape, which took place last week. My lecture, based on 3 drawings, is about three different ways to draw that I naturally used the same day, almost unconsciously. These are the representation of my evolution as a sketcher in this short space of time, starting with architectural sketches and ending with sketch more emotionally free of rules both in terms of perspective [...]


Draw in two steps: first ink, watercolor second (2)

Well, it´s been a long time, longer than I would have liked, but I finally could put the watercolor on the drawing. Surely the light is different and the colors shine more than at that time, even the bustle of the street could have affected the watercolor, but anyway, the point is that you cannot [...]


Puerta de Almodóvar: framing, perspective, use of line, color and resources to create three-dimensionality

As I´ve already commented on another occasion in this blog, one of my favorite areas to draw is that of the Jewish quarter of Cordoba, it is very close to my home and it is a truly lovely area. This is the second drawing of Cordoba, which I´ve made in my brand new book Hahnemuehle. [...]


Draw in two steps: first ink, watercolor second

He wore all weekend at home, so I decided that Sunday was to be the day to draw out, grabbed my bag with my pens, watercolors and two of my drawing books, a Moleskine and other brand Hahnemuehle , I bought in Malaga, and went for a walk to the center of the city. On [...]

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