When you're doing travel sketching or urban sketching, do you tend to forget about interiors?

When we travel, or even when we're out and about in our own hometown, we're inside all kinds of interesting spaces.

That could be your house, or the apartment or hotel you stay in when you travel, or maybe it’s an art museum, a cathedral, or the café where you have your morning coffee.

All of these are places you can capture in your sketchbook to just help evoke a sense of place and remind you of little moments in your everyday life or your vacation.

The trick with interiors is that you need to really understand perspective.

So in this class, we’re going to take the first step and work on simple one-point perspective, where all the lines in a drawing converge to a single vanishing point.

You might be used to doing this outdoors, on the street, but we’ll work on applying those techniques indoors as well.

Even the furniture in a room can follow this one-point perspective.

Once we work out how perspective works inside a room, we’ll get really creative and playful with ink, watercolor, markers, colored pencil, and any other mixed media you’d like to use.

Although we’re going to be working from photos in this class, the idea is that we’ll create quick, simple sketches that you can absolutely do on location.

Mik Thien

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