Why Sketch Outside

Why Sketch Outside

If you're here, you probably don't need the benefits explaining. But I thought I'd remind myself anyway.

Sketching outside is a wonderful and freeing thing. It can feel tough, but it becomes quickly addictive when you build up the courage to step out the door for the first time.

Sketching Outside: The Sketch Loose Method

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Introduction

  • Introduction and Overview13
  • Who is this course for and FAQs3
  • Why Sketch Outside12
  • Please Read - Posting photos, getting feedback, and notifications!

What are your goals?

  • What are your goals?84

Workshop One: Getting Comfortable Sketching Outside

  • A Portable Studio57
  • Doodle Outside94
  • Next Steps - A Still Life93
  • Skills - Viewfinding71
  • Skills - Measuring40
  • Skills - Perspective54
  • Study - Thumbnails Three Ways51
  • Challenge - The Five Steps47
  • Challenge - First Steps into Urbanity!60
  • Challenge - More First Steps 57
  • Reflection - How did you find that workshop?25

Workshop Two: Exploring Creativity in Rural Sketching

  • Creativity - Watersoluble Pencils36
  • Continuous Lines and Waterbrushes33
  • Creativity - Inside-Outside Sketching 'the outside part'25
  • Inside the first edition32
  • Inside the second edition36
  • Challenge - A 'Layered' Composition42
  • Reflection - How did you find that workshop?22

Workshop Three: Sketching Dynamic Urban Life

  • Making Edits and Owning Your Scene29
  • Skills - Dealing with the Public4
  • Creativity - Page of People17
  • Micro Sketching - In Five Shapes and Five Brushstrokes!26
  • Thumbnails in Threes Again!16
  • Busy Urban Scene17
  • Perspective, Toby Stresses Again!13
  • St Pancras and Kings Cross from a Distance!12

Final Thoughts

  • Have we met our sketching objectives?13