Drawing in perspective is challenging.

It can be even more challenging when you feel like each line you draw… just doesn’t look right.

Letting yourself draw messy, loose and quick can be a great way to supercharge your drawing progress, especially when you’re learning a tricky skill like freehand perspective. This method of sketching is a common way for artists of any level to get a feel for new techniques, practice tricky perspective angles and refine their skills.

In this seven-day challenge, you’ll practice seven techniques, exercises, and strategies to improve your perspective drawings—all without a ruler, protractor, or boring perspective rules.

You’ll learn:

How to hold your pencil and strategically use line weight to convey distance and scale
How to sketch easy shapes using a one-point perspective
Why shadow and “easy shapes” can help you develop confidence drawing complicated or curved shapes
The importance of detail and layering in creating 3D scenes
Three-point perspective tips to create towering vertical scenes.

Each bite-sized lesson is designed to be completed in 10 minutes (though I might talk a bit longer than that!). It will also help you think about freehand perspective drawing in different ways.

Learning to draw three-dimensional scenes without a ruler can help beginner artists refine hand-eye coordination and create scenes that don’t feel rigid or constrained. And the best part? Freehand drawing doesn’t require measurements, rulers or the need to get your drawing technically perfect.

For beginners just starting in perspective drawing, this class could be a launch point for more detailed instruction in perspective: think of it as a no-pressure way to dip your toes into the world of 3D drawing.

So grab a coffee, your favourite pencil, and a small scrap of paper (or a sketchbook, if you’re really prepared!), and let’s get sketching!

This class is a perspective introduction: for a more detailed dive into perspective drawing, check out one of my favourite (and first) classes: Introduction to Drawing in Perspective

Sam Gillett

Pen // Pencil // Procreate

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