Landscape Sketching Course

Feeling daunted at the thought of drawing outside?

Just like you, I used to suffer from a fear of sketching on location.

The insecurities that my sketchbook was being judged held me back.

What if someone looked over my shoulder to see a ‘bad’ drawing? What would they think?

That I was a bad artist, that I couldn’t draw?

It doesn’t have to be this way.

I learned that when I wanted to get something on the page quickly, I had to adapt my methods.

I decided to ‘draw’ with brush and ink, not a pencil so that the ‘drawing’ could get through that awkward stage and start to resemble the subject.

I felt more confident with a brush, the marks could be bolder, looser.

It could give the impression of a tree, a building, light and shade in easy strokes rather than laboring over a detailed pencil sketch.

It works and I believe it can help with your sketching problems, too.

I moved on from brush and ink to a much more travel-friendly toolkit that combined them both.

The SECRET behind effective landscape sketching

My ‘secret weapon’ became a Brush Pen.

I could be much freer with the marks, create detailed lines alongside broken edges and it forced me to be definite, no more erasing areas and starting again.

Making a mark and leaving it.

The brush pen combined the flow and convenience of a pen with the variety and texture of a paintbrush.

Changing your mindset from pencil to pen, and from long detailed drawings to quick expressionist sketches can revolutionize how you approach your sketching, giving yourself permission to enjoy the process and atmosphere of the sketch as much as the finished piece.

Simple principles that make your landscape sketching 100% more powerful.

However, even with the right tools many students still find they are overwhelmed by transferring a vast landscape onto a small sketchpad.

Trying to create a realistic perspective and depth, including a focal point and choosing what to draw, when there are so many potential viewpoints in a landscape, can result in frustration for the student.

I see the same compositional mistakes coming up again and again so I want to focus on the theory behind ‘how’ to choose a good composition for your drawings, the thought process I use when deciding what to include (or what to leave out) in a drawing.

I’ve developed this course to show you exactly how I approach landscape sketching, the materials I use and how you can do the same thing.

“Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.”

Edgar Degas, Artist

What’s in the Course?

The course is a mix of real on-location sketching with studio-based lessons and concepts. So you can learn the steps in the studio and then see how they translate to the street.

• Drawing theory.
• On-location drawing demonstrations in Skye, Scotland and the Peak District, England.
• Studio-based drawing & watercolour tutorials.
• 12 follow-along drawing demonstrations (including watercolour wash drawings).
• 7-downloadable video lessons, split into separate chapters that follow on sequentially.
• Step-by-step instructional videos so that you can follow along at your own pace.
• Downloadable jpeg reference images and drawing worksheets to work from, and a full materials list.
• Over 3 hours of detailed video instruction.
• Lifetime access, downloadable on separate devices.