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TUTORIAL: How To Simplify A Complex Scene | Beginner Urban Sketching Techniques (Patreon)

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2025-04-18 00:00:07
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In this tutorial I show you how to simplify this complex city scene using my loose ink and watercolor sketching technique.

If you're wondering, this city is Dresden in Germany! My wife and I visited there and our friends told us how this cathedral was rebuilt completely over many years after being destroyed in the second world war.

SUPPORT FILES: Please download the high resolution reference below as well as the template so you can easily sketch along with this tutorial.

SHARE: Post your sketches in the community group chat so we can see your work 🙌🏼 ('Community' menu > ‘Gallery: Share Your Sketches’).

MATERIALS: Uni-Ball Eye (aka Vision) Micro 0.5mm / Princeton Aqua Elite Round 10 / Uniball Signo White Pen /  Baohong Watercolor Paper 300gsm 100% Cotton 7’x5’ /  Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor 16 Pan Set Black & White in this set replaced by Purple Lake & Yellow Ochre. (Amazon Affiliate links above earn me a tiny commission at no extra cost to you!)

Colors Used: Cadmium Yellow Hue/Cadmium Red Hue/Alizarin Crimson Hue/Permanent Rose/Ultramarine/Cerulean Blue Hue/Sap Green/Burnt Sienna/Burnt Umber/Paynes Gray/Purple Lake & Yellow Ochre

 

 

 

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Sultana Alireza

Loved this lesson. I’m hopping to travel to Japan soon, this lesson will encourage me to try sketching outside simplifying the scene. Shukran Arabic for thank you 🙏

Amanda

This was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed seeing how to simplify something that, at a first glance, looks a bit overwhelming. As always, thank you Scottie!

Claire Heimann

This was really fun! Thanks for sharing😊 I learned a lot. I find your dot technique really helpful, bc I tend to just go in there and later a part of the view got cut of bc there‘s no space left. I don‘t really mind, but it‘s great to know how I could get it right, if I wanted to!