A mix of improvisation, technique and visual storytelling. The art of Live Drawing is the ability to capture and shape ideas as they are born.

Together with 22 students belonging to a Swedish school with the same values as Big Rock, Concept Art masterists went to Venice on a day trip to discover and portray live the most atypical and hidden Venetian reality.

The itinerary to follow in Venice was inspired by Hugo Pratt's book, "Corto Sconto. Corto Maltese's Guide to Hidden Venice," in which routes other than the usual Venice are presented. We chose to merge 2 routes:

- The Adventure Door;
- The Golden Door.

The students started from the Rialto Bridge, then took the much-loved gondola experience: "bring 2 euros" they were told, without adding anything else. 

Off the gondola, the real journey began.

The different stops were hidden spots in the city with less chaos and interesting things to see from the point of view of perspective, composition, colors, textures, details and lights. Along the way, selected excerpts from the book were read together: historical, fictional and fictionalized facts.

At some of these stops, students would stop and be given a limited amount of time (30/40 minutes) to capture, by drawing, details of the place, applying what they had seen the day before during a theoretical lesson given by our lecturers on perspective.

FUN FACT - During the day there was no shortage of stops for our students and Swedish friends to try the famous Venetian cicchetti, accompanied by a cool spritz!

In addition to experiencing an important time of connection and networking among schools, this experience for a concept artist helps speed up the creative process, communicate ideas directly and visualize solutions in real time.

The beauty of Live Drawing? Turning complex concepts into dynamic and immediate drawings drawn live, enhancing artistic thinking and making the creative process visible and memorable.