Becca Hillburn

Early Access: Drawing City Silhouettes (Patreon)

Published:

2025-11-26 23:00:06

Imported:

2026-10

Tags:

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Content

Learn how to turn your reference photos into a stunning city silhouette! For this project, I chose New Orleans, but please feel free to use your own home for inspiration! I'll demonstrate how to simplify forms and capture a likeness through three methods of capturing a silhouette, then we'll apply what we learned to creating a sunset bookmark and postcard! This class has an accompanying presentation that I shared shortly after sharing this video lesson!

Files

City Silhouette Lesson

Patrons have access to the presentation for this class! If you'd like to teach this lesson, you can join me over on Patreon and use the presentation I created: Materials: Printed Reference Photos Tracing Paper Fineliner Pens such as Sakura Microns Brushpens to fill in black such as Sakura Pigma BB Bookmark: Hahnemule Bookmark Paper Watercolors of Choice Indigo Watercolor Selection of Watercolor Brushes: Postcard: Hahnemule Postcard Paper Watercolor of Choice Sakura Micron Selection of Watercolor Brushes Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:20 The Reference Photos 01:32 Silhouette 1- Lineart 03:29 Silhouette 2- Shadow 04:53 Silhouette Style 3- Combo 07:46 Bookmark & Postcard Sunset Project 17:47 Larger, Detailed Silhouette Music: Kevin MacLeod- Enchanted Valley Kevin MacLeod- Folk Round Kevin MacLeod- Master of the Feast Sunny Travel- Nico Staf Sunset Dream- Cheel