Intuitive Sketching for Artists

1. Intro to Course: Hi, everyone. I'm Moshe Katz and welcome to Intuitive sketching for Architecture. Have you ever felt stuck trying to sketch that perfect idea? In this course, we're throwing perfection out of the window and learning about something way more exciting sketching from your intuition. This is about letting go of the rules and discovering how your imagination can lead the way. No stress, no overthinking. Just you your pencil and the freedom to explore. Imagine sketching without worrying about making mistakes. Every line, every shape becomes an adventure revealing unexpected ideas and spaces you never thought before. That's the beauty of intuitive sketching. It's not just a technique. It's a way to tap into your creativity and see where it takes you. In this course, I'll guide you through practical exercises that I designed to help you relax your hand and your mind. It'll capture the mood and spirit of spaces, experiment with playful techniques, and learn how to let your ideas flow naturally onto the page. Together, we look at real life examples and discover how intuitive sketching can transform your spontaneous thoughts into designs full of character and emotion. I developed this approach by working with artists, psychologists, painters, and writers, and I crafted a process that's inspiring but also very practical. This isn't about theory, but it's rooted in real life practice. If you're ready to have fun and find your creative flow, let's get started with intuitive sketching for architecture. Mm. 2. Allowing lines to lead a way: Everyone, this is Lesson number 12, allowing the lines to lead the way. Intuitive sketching, we don't let our thoughts lead the way. We let the lines and the flow lead the way. So in this lesson, we're going to learn how to do architectural sketches based on not overthinking and planning, but letting ourselves surrender to the motion of the lines on top of the paper. Don't control their direction. Don't control the shape and form. Just let yourself go crazy freely, wherever and however you want. Just do it with different layers and go one on top of the other until you reach a very complex sketch of different lines and shapes. Use that as the understanding of your architectural structure. Once you put some figures next to it, you will feel, what is that space that you've created in the sketch. Once you surrender to those lines and their motions, you basically embrace the unpredictability of your action. You just let the motion lead the way and let the lines define all of your sketch and all of your spaces that you are then transforming into volumes and shapes. Once you have clear lines on the paper, try to extend them into volumes, try to smear or try to extend the color to make those lines become more deep with signs or with different volumes that are extending into different directions, and then put some people and some figures next to it just to see what kind of a structure you have created. So once we are sketching with that free flow, all the lines are coming from an inner voice or an intuition within us. It's unexpected. It is a surprise for ourselves to see where does it go and what does it do on top of the paper. And we usually find amazing potentials hidden in those lines and signs. So once you've done that, just add some real life elements like trees, figures in scale, put them in different places on your sketch, and it will help you understand what kind of a relation it has with an architectural structure or a real space. The next thing would be to rotate your sketch. So now let's look at your sketch from a different angle or a different point of view and see what can we learn from that? Maybe we'll discover an interesting space when the sketch is turned around completely. The more we let ourselves be guided by the interior flow, almost as a dance, as a motion. Without any thought or reason, just we feel the movement and we want to get it out of us. This is when we reach the highest connection to our intuition. This is the flow that we are looking for, and it allows all the signs of the architecture to be shown and represented in a very clear way as we go along. At the end, try to analyze yourself, all these signs and volumes that come out, analyze it as an architect, as a designer, look at them as a potential of a beginning for space. 3. Curves and organic forms: Hi, everyone. This is lesson number 16, curves and organic forms. In this lesson, we are going to learn how analyzing and studying organic lines and natural elements help us connect to our intuition. And most of all, develop our ability to sketch architecture with the same natural flow. So one of the goals that we are looking for when we sketch intuitively in architecture is to find that natural flow of the sketch until we reach all the new shapes and lines and forms that allow us to create new architecture spaces. And I personally love to look at natural elements as flowers, trees, stones, and try to imitate their flow, their lines, their volume when I look at this picture, I don't see natural elements as leaves. I see potential architectural spaces. I see those dark volumes that are more structural to me. I see the bright ones that allow us to have a certain depth of the structure. And everywhere I look, I imagine that there is a human being that exists somewhere in there, and how does it make me feel if I am standing in front of that structure? So what I recommend is to examine contours and volumes of different natural elements and understand how they develop and transform as they go. Try to imitate them, draw them, sketch them, and imagine the architectural spaces you might find between them. As a second stage, once you reach a certain harmonious organic sketch, try to move from the two D to the three dimensional space. So take those lines and give them a volume or take them up with some paper or a model and try to see what kind of a space did you create in your sketch once it has a sculptures form, a three dimensional form almost as a building standing up. Take different pictures from different angles and explore the scale of that three dimensional sketch. So the organic flow of nature is using the same rules as the organic form of you. So the same energy, the same harmony exists in both. Try to find the connection that you have with the nature that you are looking at or examining, try to find your own personal connection to it, and then consider the different flow of it, the shapes, the forms, the development of its structure, try to imitate it on sketch and see how you can continue that by yourself, almost as if you are now creating the evolution of that nature to the next level. But this time as an architect, 4. Develop Trust in the Creative Process: Hi, everyone. This is Lesson number six, developing trust in the creative process. So the creative process is one of the most fascinating things that you would go through as an architect and designer. It is filled with a lot of unknowns, but at the same time with a lot of discoveries and wonder. To go through such a process in walking through the darkness, searching for glimpses of light of inspiration, this is something that takes a lot of trust and belief. Trust ourselves that we can go through that path and reach at the other side as more creative and innovative, but also believe that whatever we do, whatever we go through, at the end of that path, there is the beautiful project and the beautiful part of ourselves. So this is when you embrace inspiration as a childish playfulness. You start getting into the process with playful state of mind. Everything is your game. Everything can be used. Anything can be changed. Everything is flexible and open to transformation. So as you go through that process, you also build a trust through the experience of you finding new boundaries of yourself and of your creativity. As in any process, even creativity needs a courage, a courage and a belief to go through certain stages which involve a lot of unknowns. It can bring out challenges and fears. But what keeps us going through that process is the belief that at the other end of that lies the better part of ourselves. We do that through trusting our inner voice that tells us that this is the way to go. This is the right thing to pursue. So as we walk in that process of trying to figure out how to express our deepest and most intimate feelings, emotions, and thoughts, we need to pay attention to the subtle nuanceers and the different small changes that happen within us, because there in those places we find the biggest potentials and meanings of our sketch. So listen to your instincts, listen to your sensations, the positive ones that tell you where to go. These are the voices that shape your vision and imagination and the final version of your sketch. So instead of focusing on the outcome and get into the loop of judgments and errors and mistakes, try to focus on the act of creating on the flow that you are synchronizing to, and you're just doing whatever is fun and pleasant for you. So trust the creativity within you, let it flow, and you will see that it will lead you directly to all of your amazing discoveries that you have never imagined that lie within you. I've been doing this process for many years. I've been teaching that method for many years, and I can tell you with very clear and confident voice that this is one of the most amazing processes and feelings that we have as architects and designers. When we reach that flow without judgment, without fear, just be in the moment as a child and discover eventually the most amazing structures and architectural potentials. This is why I became an architect. 5. The Power of spontanious architectural sketching: Hi, everyone. This is lesson number two, the power of spontaneous architectural sketching. In this lesson, we are going to learn about the importance of spontaneous sketching in architecture and how it reflects a deep connection with our inner voice and when we're free of rational thinking. The spontaneous sketching encourages a constant flow of expression without any rigid structure or process. We are just letting some sensation or emotion or a flow guide us. There are no specific techniques required. Anything goes. You can just sketch without thinking. So it's all about doing quick, intuitive marks on the paper that captures a certain essence of an emotion, a thought, or a sensation. And what it does, it reveals an authentic voice, an individual style in the sketch itself. The more we are in tune with that flow, you will be surprised to see how many amazing potentials come out of that action. And as architects, when you spontaneously sketch, you unlock infinite possibilities for spaces or structures or designs that you can't do if you think or premeditate the whole sketch beforehand. This is when you let go of your raw creativity and emotional depth. You feel that you're inspired by unique ideas that challenge traditional design approaches. You see all these amazing structures and potential spaces coming out that are innovative and visionary. The spontaneous sketch acts as a tool to discover to unlock all these hidden unexpected solutions that you wouldn't find if you use only your rational thought. So feel free to take a paper and a pen and just try it out. Just do some spontaneous signs and sketching on top of the paper, and just enjoy the flow. Try to reconnect with an inner flow instead of thinking about the outcome or results of your sketch. Just enjoy the flow of sketching and see what comes out of it.