In case you haven’t already heard, enrollment is now open for my new Journey Sketching course and it begins Monday ninth September – subsequent week!
We’ll work by way of the course over 3.5 weeks and I’m internet hosting 3 bonus livestreams to reply questions and provides suggestions.
Discover out extra about Journey Sketching
Prior to now few weeks, I’ve been requested many questions on the course, and I assumed it could be useful to mix them right into a weblog submit.
I do know that a few of you may have seen these matters in my emails just lately, however I’ve included some new images from the course that I haven’t shared beforehand. So I hope that you simply’ll get pleasure from seeing them and that they are going to make you look ahead extra to the course beginning.
The course is only some days away now!
1. What’s going to you study?
Journey sketching is all about taking dangers and sketching throughout in-between moments, and you want to study particular strategies to provide the confidence to go for it!
This course will educate you the way to decide on scenes to sketch and the best way to put the primary marks in your clean web page to seize the essence of the scene you see.
On this Journey Sketching course you’ll study to:
- put together for a sketching journey and set achievable sketching targets
- work with a restricted palette that’s light-weight and straightforward to make use of for each fast and elaborate sketches
- seize the necessary elements of a scene in just a few strains
- create eye-catching vibrant sketches with watercolour pencils
- develop strategies for sketching advanced scenes in varied media
By studying these fast sketching strategies you’ll really feel extra assured about sketching whereas touring.
You’ll come residence with a sketchbook filled with full of life sketches and can seize very particular reminiscences.
As a bonus, you’ll additionally really feel extra snug sketching round others if you end up out and about in your every day life.
2. How will the course work?
A lot of individuals need to know extra in regards to the course format, so listed below are extra particulars about what occurs every week.
Journey Sketching accommodates each on-demand/pre-recorded movies and reside classes!
Every week, a brand new a part of the course can be launched (discuss with the schedule beneath) into the designed Journey Sketching classroom, and you may watch the movies and do the workouts throughout the week at a time that works greatest for you.
Every half accommodates:
- Introduction Video explaining the idea/method for the week
- Well-known Locations Workout routines: Video containing a number of demos explaining the best way to use the idea with examples of well-known locations images.
- Melbourne Demos: This video accommodates a number of sketches from a current journey to Melbourne. These sketches sometimes present the best way to use the ideas in additional superior functions.
- Project galleries: That is the place you add your sketches – working from my examples and your personal scenes. It’s additionally the place to take a look at (and remark!) on different individuals’s work. The magic of the SketchingNow neighborhood occurs right here – there’s a lot inspiration and encouragement occurring in these galleries!
- Questions: Every a part of the course has a devoted query part, so you possibly can ask me in regards to the classes anytime.
- Takeaways: After you may have labored by way of the workouts, there’s a place to share your insights, what you realized, or what you discovered difficult. I all the time love going by way of this part!
After which, simply earlier than we transfer on to the subsequent a part of the course, there can be a Livestream (hosted on YouTube) so we are able to recap the present idea; I may give suggestions on chosen work from the classroom, do any further demos and reply all of your questions in real-time!
These livestreams are all the time a spotlight of any SketchingNow course, and sure, replays can be found afterward when you can’t be a part of us reside!
There’s additionally a discussion board within the classroom to debate every kind of art-related matters with others within the course.
3. How is Journey Sketching totally different from different SketchingNow programs?
Present SketchingNow programs present in-depth instruction on drawing and portray abilities, permitting you to discover strategies with out time constraints. These longer programs, sometimes 6-12 weeks, deal with accuracy and systematic skill-building, with an emphasis on watercolour.
Journey Sketching:
- focuses on three highly effective methods for sketching inside deadlines – methods which were designed to make it straightforward to resolve on the best way to begin your sketch.
- emphasises capturing the essence of a scene by way of easy drawings with out worrying about all the main points.
- explores utilizing totally different media – significantly dry media because it’s a lot simpler to make use of when on the go. Notice: Watercolour is optionally available for this course. There are some demos included however these are for the extra seasoned sketchers. The course accommodates plenty of demos for novices that don’t want watercolour!
- enhances different programs. In case you’ve completed Foundations and Watercolour you’ll have precious abilities which can enable you do Journey Sketching workouts. However it isn’t important to have completed these programs first. As well as there are classes in Edges, Buildings and Watercolour On Location that cope with some elements of journey sketching in additional depth.
The principle objective is to provide the confidence to sketch wherever, at any time!
And we’ll study all these tips in simply 3 weeks!
4. Who’s the course for?
Journey Sketching is for sketchers of all ranges of expertise who need to sketch extra when they’re on the go.
- In case you are a newbie, this Journey Sketching course will educate you some easy methods of sketching and can introduce you to crucial drawing and remark abilities you want to sketch something. These ideas are expanded in additional element inside my Foundations course, so when you’ve got time now, working by way of the primary few classes of Foundations can be nice preparation. Nonetheless, you do not want any sketching expertise to do Journey Sketching.
- In case you sketch usually at residence however battle to sketch while you journey, this course will educate you strategies for sketching on the go or in a spare second. You’ll develop methods for simplifying advanced scenes into just a few strains, shapes, or layers, supplying you with the boldness to sketch extra.
- In case you are a extra skilled sketcher, this Journey Sketching course will present you the best way to sketch extra with much less and easily seize the essence of a spot. You’ll additionally learn to incorporate extra dry media into your work.
Specifically, the demos from my current journey to Melbourne will present extra skilled sketchers the best way to use these ideas in additional superior methods.
5. Three different questions
Lastly…listed below are solutions to a few different mostly requested questions
- Lifetime entry? Sure! To all content material within the course AND all future group occasions.
- Can I work at my very own tempo? Sure! The classroom stays open and you may come again to the teachings any time you need
- What supplies do I want? Yow will discover the main points of the supplies record right here – and you do not want to make use of the identical instruments as I do. It’s completely high-quality to make use of what you have already got.
Discover out extra particulars (together with the dates and occasions of livestreams) right here
After months of planning and preparation, I’m so excited that the course is beginning in just a few days. The primary cohort of this yr goes to be a lot enjoyable, and an incredible group of sketchers from around the globe is already forming. If it’s a very good match, I’d like to have you ever be a part of.
Signal as much as Journey Sketching course right now!
I even have a present certificates accessible particularly for the Journey Sketching course if you wish to present this course to a pal – see extra right here.
And, in fact, let me know within the feedback part beneath when you’ve got every other questions on Journey Sketching or every other course.