Learning objectives
With the development of new visual presentation techniques and powerful communication media, the complexity of the content that can be conveyed is increasing. While the detailed drawing of visual facts has become less important, the demand for sketching techniques is increasing. Using quick, precise line, color and light sketches, we get to know the essential content, characteristics and action sequences of a situation.
Contents
Each course begins with a walk through the city, during which 10–20 interesting scenes are captured in a sketchbook. The time allotted for this is limited. In the first part, participants are to sketch exclusively in monochrome and using lines. The focus is on a single point in the field of vision that serves as the center of attention. Everything else is blocked out.
In the second step of the exercise, the selected scenes are brought to life through the use of color. This does not involve painting, but rather sketching in color. Lines are replaced by broad brushstrokes. Surfaces, forms, perspectives, and materials are created using areas of color. Particular attention is paid to the difference between light colors and solid colors.
In the third step, atmospheric sketches are developed, composed of as few colored patches as possible. The depiction of temporality is of particular importance here. Shadows, highlights, reflections, and glints underscore the atmospheric dimension of the observed spatial situations. The actual conditions of the environment recede into the background behind the subjective experience of the moment. The atmospheric sketch draws its life from the viewer’s imagination and their response to the presence of the phenomena of color, light, and space.
Course duration
2 courses with 4 seminar days and 8 working days each
More on methods and didactics in the publication “Grundlagen der kreativen Gestaltung” (in preparation, please send reservations to mail@axelbuether.de)
