Who is this course for?

This course is designed for anyone who has completed the Beginner’s Course or sketchers who are ready to stretch themselves. The lessons are a step up in both challenge and creativity—they’ll nudge you out of your comfort zone while helping you develop your own sketching style.

If you’re eager to move beyond the basics and start experimenting more confidently, this is for you.

Sketchers consistently say they found the course challenging—but in the best possible way. They quickly discovered that pushing through the challenge helped them loosen up, gain clarity, and truly start to find their own voice in their sketching.

Is there a time limit?

There’s no time limit on this course.
Work through the lessons at your own pace, and feel free to revisit any part of the course as often as you like.

What supplies are suggested?

For most of the course, I use my usual set of watercolours, my favourite fountain pen, and watercolour paper.

Minimum Suggested Supplies

There is a basic list of supplies that I think is flexible and more than sufficient to create your ink and watercolour landscapes. This I call the ‘minimum suggested supplies’. You can also check the supplies tab on SketchLoose.co.uk/supplies - here I keep it up to date with what I’m using at the moment.

  • Surface

    • Student grade watercolour paper, 300gsm (140lbs) in weight, A4 (UK) or Letter (USA) in size. I prefer cold pressed paper. This paper might be in loose sheets, or in a sketchbook

  • Drafting implement

    • Any pencil, any eraser

  • Sketching implement

    • A waterproof fineliner, or a sketching fountain pen (a cheap option is a 'Platinum Preppy')

    • Look for the words 'permanent' or 'waterproof' on the fineliner

  • Waterproof Ink (if using a fountain pen) - such as platinum carbon X ink

    • Important note here - not all waterproof inks are fountain pen safe

  • Watercolour paints

    • A student grade starter set is an affordable option and plenty to get started

  • Watercolour brush

    • As a minimum, I would suggest student grade size 6 and 12 round brushes. These sizes are approximate and just a guideline

Then, in this course, we have some mixed media! This is very light touch, and you can consider the mixed media to be ‘enhancing’ the watercolours. In any video where I use ‘mixed media’ I will also explain to you what it adds, and how to get the same effect with watercolour paints. The mixed media I will be using includes:

  • POSCA pens - or other fine tipped (0.7mm) acrylic paint markers

  • Alcohol Ink Markers - such as Windsor Newton Promarkers

  • India Ink Markers - such as Faber Castell Pitt Artists Pens

Common FAQs and where to find answers

👉 The big FAQ list!

👉 View the supplies I use most often

👉 How to log in and find your course dashboard

👉 How to post your photos and get feedback

👉 My photos are too big to post, how do I make them smaller?

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