SKETCHBOOK HABIT COURSE 1

(Online delivery)
3 x 1.5 hour sessions on Monday 13, 20 and 27 May 2024, 6:00-7:30pm

FOR INDIVIDUALS

We are running Sketchbook Habit Course 1 afresh, with 3 new live classes, new things to draw, and new teaching films for you to use 24/7 for the duration of the course. Use the course as a sampler, with tips and links for you to go deeper in any of these subjects after the course ends.

Session 1 : Rapid Sketch practice - Mon 13 May

The session will equip you with ideas about to how and what you sketch, restricting the time you spend on each sketch so you draw without over- thinking

The session will be made up of rapid sketches (each between 3-15 minutes long) so we can adopt a technique that is appropriate for the focus of our sketches, which will be alternately line, tone, and texture.

Session 2 : Colour Pencil Portrait - Mon 20 May

We will make a trial portrait, in four stages, working from the general to specific volumes in the face, using cool and warm colour. We will study several masters to discover the hidden passages of the head and how to draw them, then work from a colour image of a head, to make a convincing 3d sketch.

Session 3 : An introduction to Sketchnoting - Mon 27 May

We will practice fundamental diagramming skills as a means of communicating relationships between time, space, people and objects. A warm up exercise will help you practice thinking up objects, signs and symbols for representing situations or a concept, then you will go on to translate a familiar subject into a pictogram. Great lateral thinking fun. 

Plus One

Sketching is great when you have a friend to share the experience with, so we have launched Plus One. As a free gift, your friend/ family / work colleague/ neighbour can do the course in real time with you, or from recordings by logging in together and sharing a screen. Whether your plus one lives on the same block as you or on the other side of the world, you have maximum options for sharing a sketching date. 

Cost
£35 

We will be taking bookings between Thu 18 Apr - 13 May (12 noon). If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us at info@drawingatwork.co.uk

To purchase access:

Tutor
Trevor Flynn is Director of Drawing At Work, founder of The Drawing Gym and Sketchmob, Drawing and Visual Communication module leader for the Foundation course at the Architectural Association, drawing tutor at UCL, Bath and Loughborough Architecture schools. Former Food and travel illustrator for the Sunday Telegraph colour magazine, and illustrator of the Notting Hill film screenplay.

SKETCHBOOK HABIT

(Online and in-person delivery)
5 x 2 hour sessions

UP TO 14 PEOPLE

The Sketchbook Habit course treats the sketchbook as a tool to develop visual research and generate ideas.
 You will be shown how to draw a portrait with coloured pencils, be taken on a type safari to explore expressive letter forms, draw a live clothed model with 3 changes of outfit - (gym, beach, evening).
 You will also practice some Sketch-noting, where we will explain complex ideas in simple diagrams, and each week we will study some aspect of historical and contemporary sketchbooks from a range of design and art disciplines. You will complete the course with a sketchbook full of images and ideas and an appetite to keep sketching.

Tutor
Trevor Flynn
 is Director of Drawing At Work, founder of The Drawing Gym and Sketchmob, Drawing and Visual Communication module leader for the Foundation course at the Architectural Association, drawing tutor at UCL, Bath and Loughborough Architecture schools. Former Food and travel illustrator for the Sunday Telegraph colour magazine, and illustrator of the Notting Hill film screenplay.