Drawing on layers

What’s behind an onion? Drawing on layers with Miguel Herranz and Swasky

We were challenged to work less on perspective and more with the line and colour as a way to show the diffrent planes in a drawing (the layers of an onion). First we started with line. We did some small thumbnails trying to use the thickness of line as the fundamental tool for creating different planes changing the point of interest between the nearest and the farthest things in front of you.

For the second one we were allowed to work with line and colour. I started putting blocks of colour and when i was about to draw the Coca-Cola Train it moved back...

I tend to draw a lot of arquitecture so this workshop was really a challenge.

Thanks Miguel and Swasky!

Sant Felip Neri and the onion layers

Last saturday y made this drawing in Barcelona whera I live, more exatly in Plaça Sant Felip Neri and I thought it could be a good presentation of the workshop that Swasky and me will give in Santo Domingo. This workshop will have the aim of bringing resources to lead the viewer's eye through the page in order to manage that the story read could be as similar as possible to the story wanted to be told.
All this separating layers, underlining subjects and emphasizing areas using different line, color, texture and text.

A matter of composition and text

Sketchbooks not only hold drawings, I mean, your sketchbook should become a place where you experiment with everything. For instance, when I start drawing I don't care about where I lay my brush for my first line. Even I don't know how would be the outcome. But little by little it grows up. Drawing turns up, line and colour has created a composition. Music helps me. Then I write a text adding more information.

My bicycle / Mi bicicleta

I live near Barcelone, a wonderful seaside city, but I have to commute. I love public transport as I have said before, somewhere, but I also love biking. Fortunately I changed my old moutain bike to a folding bike. I've always considered my bicycle like any other of my drawing tools. So now my life is easier thanks to my folding bike.

Yo vivo cerca de Barcelona, ​​una maravillosa ciudad costera, pero tengo que usar el tren de cercanías regularmente. Me encanta el transporte público, como he dicho antes, en alguna parte, pero también me gusta ir en bicicleta. Afortunadamente cambié mi vieja mountain bike por una bicicleta plegable. Siempre he considerado mi bicicleta como cualquier otra de mis herramientas de dibujo. Así que ahora mi vida es más fácil gracias a mi mi bicicleta plegable.

Folding bike commuting / Bicicleta plegable viajando en el tren de cercanías