Explore your surroundings with urban sketching, using line and wash or pen and watercolour techniques, enhanced by characterful and deceptively simple line work.

In this course, I will teach you how to capture the scenes around you in your sketches, drawings and urban sketches using fine liners, fountain pens and, if you want, a touch of watercolors. We will focus on the fundamentals of urban sketching, an effective and interesting ink sketch developing both our line work and our expression of shape and volume, for example, through hatching.

Your everyday life is full of interesting scenes, and fantastic places to sketch. I would go so far as to that everything is sketchable: from breakfast, to your morning walk, through to the commute home.

Capturing scenes that are so different can feel scary, but with the fundamentals of urban sketching, and having great techniques for drawing those first lines, you’ll soon be sketching away confidently.

My style of sketching uses loose and fun lines, focussing on building up the essence of the scene, and using my line work to go beyond silhouettes and outlines, instead quickly and simply getting volume and shape. This, I believe, is what makes sketches really great.