Do you want to sketch your home, but not sure where to start? Or perhaps create a house portrait for a loved one, but think you can’t create something you’ll be proud to gift? Do the angles and perspective get you turned upside down?

If so, this is the class for you!

Hi, my name is Toby Haseler, known as Toby Urbansketch on Instagram and YouTube.

In this in step by step in depth tutorial I will show you tips and tricks to capture those tricky details like windows, roofs, wall textures, trees and grass, in both pen and watercolor / watercolour. Before guiding you through my whole process of creating a house portrait as my final project.

I've recently updated this class as well - and now we are ALSO considering that always tricky subject - perspective. And how perspective is important in considering our composition, as well as how we can analyse, and tackle perspective before simply sketching it out for our final project!

Over the years of sketching, house portraits and neighbourhood sketches have been my most common commission request, by far!

They’re super popular, and they’re really rewarding to complete. They make such a lovely gift, a truly meaningful present for a loved one. But also, a fun form of art in it’s own right – capturing quirky and interesting houses in your street, or further afield.

The challenge with houses can be getting the details right. It’s tempting to draw every brick, and scary to try and get windows exactly right. As will all art, simplification is key! I’ll show you how I capture details in their essence, to make sketching houses fun, easy and rewarding.

We will cover:

Easy techniques to draw windows
How colours can bring windows to life
Getting wall textures right
Measuring roof angles
Sketching trees, bushes, grass and more
Mixing green watercolours for the garden
Simple techniques for creating effective shadows
and NEW TO THIS CLASS ... PERSPECTIVE! What are vanishing points? Whats a horizon line? How does this even help?

The bite sized lessons are split into pen and watercolour classes, allowing you to focus on specific techniques, one at a time.

This class will give you confidence in starting out with your first house portraits. Art is all about simplifying, and this is never more true than in watercolor / watercolour and ink urban sketching.

It can seem scary or challenging to get started, but by breaking houses down into bite sized and approachable details it becomes so much more achievable.

From this class you’ll gain

Confidence and inspiration to get started sketching house
Understanding how to capture details in simple and effective ways
Using watercolours to enhance your sketch
Not getting lost in the detail
Having fun!
Produce a beautiful sketch

The class is aimed at beginner and intermediate sketchers and painters.

We use a limited set of equipment – you’ll need one pen, one brush and a few basic watercolours. At all stages I do my best to let you know exactly what colours I’m using, and also cover alternative colours you might want to use.

We also touch on subjects like measuring angles (important for roofs!), creating shadows (there is a whole lesson on this!), and mixing those tricky greens to make your gardens interesting and varied.

The classes are all in real time, and discussed in depth, so you’ll be able to sketch along with me, or watch and absorb the information – before putting it into practice in your own time.

The specific lessons will cover:

Windows in pen
Windows in watercolour
Walls in pen
Walls in watercolour
Roofs in pen
Roofs in watercolour
Gardens in pen
Gardens in watercolour
Shadows in watercolour
And a full step by step final project

In the final project I will sketch from a reference photo (provided in the class resources) and show you how I put all of these tips into practice.

In addition, I’ll show you how I sketch not just the house, but also the surrounding neighbourhood/street to give the house context.

Looking forward to having you join me :)

Audio credits:

Apero Hour Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 4.0 License
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Credits:

Made with Wondershare Filmora

Hilary Douch

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