Urban Sketching: Tips & Techniques
Workshop | This class is completed
Learn the nuts and bolts of sketching by getting out of the studio and sketching in the community. The classroom session will focus on sketching a clothed model and work toward capturing the entire setting. Use a sketchbook the way a photojournalist uses a camera. The goal is to produce finished sketches using pen and ink, then applying watercolor all within a two-hour period.
- Stillman and Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook, hard bound or wire bound. Mine sketchbook is 11 by 14 inches.
- .05, and or .08 Micron pens.
- Any pencil with an eraser. 2B, No. 2 HB, what fells comfortable.
- Watercolor Travel palette Windsor Newton 14 colors. Any water color set will work.
- Pentel Water Brush
- Small supply of spare water. I use a pill bottle.
Thomas Thorspecken
Thomas Thorspecken (Thor) studied animation and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He worked for ten years at Walt Disney Feature Animation. In 2009 he made a new year's resolution to do one sketch a day and share it with a worldwide community of urban sketchers through his online site Analog Artist Digital World www.analogartistdigitalworld.com