Learn how you can simplify and sketch complex scenes with this course. This course will help you analyse and break down complicated scenes for sketching. You’ll also learn to be more confident and manage the feeling of being overwhelmed.

This 144-minute course is for intermediate learners who already have some basic knowledge of sketching from observation. For beginners, I recommend you check out my beginner courses first.

You’ll just need a pen and some paper to follow along with the exercises. There’s a bonus tutorial on painting with tonal values, and for that you’ll need ink and brush, or waterbrushes.

Here are the lessons in this class:

• • Intro

• • Tools for drawing (6 min)

• • Simplify a detailed building (14 min)

• • Detailed building continued (16 min)

• • Drawing on a much smaller paper (7 min)

• • Draw a busy market scene (17 min)

• • Market scene: More details and background (19 min)

• • Market scene: Adding tonal values (17 min)

• • Market scene on smaller paper (14 min)

• • Extra exercises (11 min)

• • Bonus lesson: 9 buildings in 9 minutes (23 min)

• End