Are you an artist or urban sketcher looking to improve your ink and watercolour sketching skills?

You want to dive into the world of perspective, to create engaging and captivating sketches!

Perhaps you want to learn a technique that will open up a whole new world of sketching opportunities and bring them to your fingertips?

If so then this is the class for you!

In this hands-on sketching practice I will to show you how I think about three point and vertical perspective, and use it successfully in my sketches to create characterful and fascinating drawings and paintings.

Aims of this class

This is an interactive and practical guide to three point perspective, focussing on adding vertical perspective to our sketches. As well as revising the key concepts of linear perspective.

We will cover the following!

What are vanishing points’, ‘the horizon line’ and ‘perspective lines’
When do we find vertical perspective?
What do we mean by three point perspective?
The importance of simplifying perspective
How to be flexible in our approach to perspective
How to use a pencil sketch to get the key structure
How to build on this with pen lines to add certainty
How your colours/watercolors can help build your perspective

And most importantly, we’ll learn by doing – so these learning points will all be practical and hands on through a guided sketch, which some brief exercises before to get warmed up!

Who Am I?

My name is Toby, known as Toby Urbansketch. I use loose line work and splashy colours to create sketches of my world. The streets, buildings, people and objects around me every day.

For me, sketching is all about the experience – I don’t like too much theory, I don’t tend to ‘practice’ very much, I just sketch, experiment and enjoy.

That’s what I’d like to do with you today as well, a little bit of theory, but really, we can learn almost everything just by sketching and having fun.

Learning techniques and skills like three point and vertical perspective are brilliant, because they open up the world and bring so many sketching possibilities to the tips of our pen!

Suggested tools

I'll explain exactly what I'm using in the 'supplies' lesson. But the supplies aren't strict, and you could even make do with a pen and standard printer paper and still get a huge amount out of this class.

For this class I’ll be using watercolour paper, a mechanical pencil, two fine liner pens (waterproof) and a set of watercolours to bring life to my sketch. I also use an A5 sketchbook for a few of the demonstrations, with lightweight cartridge paper.

I’ll do some brief demonstrations using my iPad – this is totally not necessary, you could either just observe the demonstrations OR you could print the reference photo and sketch on top if you want to sketch/draw along with me.

Suggested level

This class is aimed for intermediate sketchers. Having a basic understanding of perspective would be ideal to get the most out of this class, but we will of course be revising key concepts to make sure we are all at the same level to start out.

Audio credits:

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

Kimberly Falk

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