Sketching
Join our online sketching course and classes to learn creative drawing techniques with watercolor, fountain pen and ink, building confidence, speed and a compelling sketchbook practice.
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Welcome to our online sketching courses and masterclasses for urban drawing and architectural illustration! Dive into the world of sketching, urban streets and architectural spaces where creativity and practice know no bounds. Whether you prefer watercolor, colored pencils, fountain pens, markers, or liners with ink for expressive drawing, our courses provide the flexibility to explore your preferred medium. With expert guidance and a variety of creative techniques, you'll learn to sharpen your skills and bring your sketches to life. Choose your favorite tools, sketchbook, fountain pen and brush pen sets, colored pens and black ink for quick urban drawings, and let your imagination run wild as you embark on your sketching journey with us!
This course catalog presents structured online lessons in urban sketching, architectural drawing and ink drawing so that you can learn step by step at your own pace and build a solid foundation for expressive work.
The course structure includes separate lessons for the beginner and for beginners who have learned the basics of drawing, so you can use the same materials in different classes, repeat key techniques and focus on specific areas of architecture and landscape.
You will practice with fountain pens, brush pens, marker pens and fineliners, try fountain pen and dip pen for expressive line work, combine watercolor and watercolors with ink, and keep a sketchbook for each project so that your sketchbooks become a complete visual diary of your travels.
In each urban sketching course you will explore city streets, parks and architectural landmarks, study perspective in architecture, and apply creative techniques to capturing light, shadow and atmosphere during travel.
Plein air sessions train you to use fountain pen and ink confidently, develop quick drawing skills for travel sketching, and understand how to simplify complex architecture into expressive lines.
These plein air lessons show how to learn from quick on-site drawing, capture the life of the street scene, and build confidence before working on longer studio architecture projects.
Each lesson encourages you to keep a daily sketchbook, use your sketchbook to test new ink techniques and color combinations, and return to the same sketchbook pages later to see how your drawing skills have improved.
Fountain pen exercises with black ink in your sketchbook help refine line quality; separate lessons in calligraphy, hatching, texture, perspective, composition show how techniques can improve every drawing.
You can use different fountain pens with waterproof ink for detailed ink drawing; this approach turns technical practice into creative techniques that feel like a game rather than routine.
Online training covers studio lessons, plein air practice, travel drawing sessions, urban architecture studies, so you can learn how to draw quickly, apply new techniques in real life, collect references for future projects.
This course offers structured learning with video hours, step by step lessons on perspective, composition, colour, watercolor accents, ink washes, so students practice problem solving through drawing tasks that relate to real architecture.
One lesson focuses on a single creative technique so you learn a technique deeply, transfer the result into your sketchbook, then apply similar solutions in later lessons.
Additional lessons focus on ink techniques for architectural detail; each lesson suggests specific drawing tasks in your sketchbook so you finish work that shows progress from week to week.
You use fountain pen for linear studies, switch to fountain pens with diluted ink for tonal drawing, then review these exercises in the sketchbook during later lessons where techniques from the course become part of your natural flow.
Regular sessions with technical pen support precise line work; quick sketches with softer pens develop a looser personal style, while a second sketchbook records experiments, a home sketchbook holds finished pieces.
Many students keep one favorite pen for notes, separate pens for rapid thumbnails.