How to Simplify in Urban Sketching - A Fundamental Skill

Unlock Your Sketching Potential: A Guide to Simplification & Urban Sketching

Discover the fundamental drawing skill of simplification – a cornerstone for compelling art, sketching, and urban sketching. Learn how a simple sketch is the key to creating quick, fun, and engaging sketches, laying the groundwork for building complexity and bringing your scenes to life. This class isn't just about drawing buildings and architecture; we'll explore how simplification applies to people and figures too!

By mastering simplification, you’ll unlock a world of sketching possibilities and begin to see the world through an artist's eyes. In this urban sketching class, I'll guide you through the meaning of simplification, practical techniques to apply it to your sketches and drawings, and walk you through a complete class project from start to finish.

What You'll Learn:

• Understand Simplification: Define what simplification means in art and sketching.
• The Necessity of Simplification: Learn why simplification is crucial in almost all artistic disciplines.
• Building Complexity: Discover how to gradually add detail on top of a strong, simple sketch.
• Suggesting Details: Gain confidence in implying details rather than meticulously rendering every element.
• Stress-Free Sketching: Create dynamic, busy sketches without feeling overwhelmed.
• Boost Your Sketching Confidence: Become more assured in your ability to sketch, including loose sketching and urban sketching.

Grab your pen, paper, and watercolors, and let's start creating!

Ink and Watercolor Techniques: This class focuses on the exciting combination of ink and watercolor techniques. I'll share the supplies I use, but don't worry about strict requirements. All you need is a waterproof/permanent pen, paper, and basic watercolors to join in!

Step-by-Step for Beginners: We'll break down our sketching process into a simple, five-step system. We'll dedicate extra attention to the first step – simplification – through focused lessons. You'll also benefit from two warm-up and theory lessons to build a solid foundation.

Fully Narrated & Real-Time: I'll narrate the entire course in real-time, sketching alongside you and providing the background knowledge to understand my artistic choices.

Audio credits: Apero Hour Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 License httpcreativecommons.orglicensesby4.0