COURSES IN FREEHAND DRAWING AND SKETCHING

Drawing remains the most instinctive way to visualize first ideas quickly and expressively on paper. Confident, quick sketches can not only document what we see, they can also be part of communicating to others, and play an important role when designing and developing new concepts. Freehand drawing enhances creativity, gives us a personal freedom to explore, perceive and express the world around us. And not least, drawing and sketching is fun.

GOALS

LineScape courses can help increase confidence when drawing and communicating on paper, whether a quick sketch or a final presentation. Individual styles and graphic expression can become a distinct and recognizable signature feature.

Once confidence is achieved, drawing can be integrated into the daily routine and, in the planning professions, can help effectively persuade and communicate with others.

Workshops and courses with emphasis on freehand drawing, sketching and illustration can be conceived to meet individual needs, from beginners’ level to advanced courses, even in combination with digital media (Photoshop).

TARGET GROUPS

Courses can be put together for professional landscape architects, planners and designers, as well as for laypersons and enthusiasts.

POSSIBLE TOPICS AND THEMES

• Quick sketching, contour drawing and construction
• Drawing spaces/ principles of perspective
• Rendering and surfaces, light and shadows
• Still life, observation i.e. people, vegetation
• Drawing and digital enhancement
• Artistic themes, abstraction and reduction, style and expression

COURSES IN WATERCOLOUR SKETCHING

The linework of a hand drawing can be uniquely enhanced with watercolours, and amplified with gestures and effects.

These LineScape courses involve visiting inspiring landscapes and cities, and drawing on site. Being outside heightens the senses and sharpens our observational skills. The resulting drawings are often very personal and expressive, since seeing is selective and participants can focus on what interests them.

The drawing courses that happen outside of our daily environments and routine, especially the excursions in Italy, offer many inspirational motifs for drawing. The break from the digital world and the immersion in beautiful landscapes often gives the mind a freedom to explore new ideas with pencil and brush.

GOALS

These artistic and creative drawing courses not only train graphic skills, they fine-tune perception and observation, offering the possibility to achieve individual creative expression.

TARGET GROUPS

Architects, landscape architects and designers, as well as anyone who enjoys drawing and watercolour sketching under the open sky.
Basic drawing skills are desirable but courses can be fine-tuned to any level.

POSSIBLE TOPICS AND THEMES

• Basics of freehand drawing and sketching (indoors and outdoors)
• Drawing three dimensional objects and spaces
• Principles of perspective and construction
• Exploring graphic styles and effects
• Day trips and excursions to landscape and urban areas, individual drawing/ emphasis on site (landscape/ architecture/ botanical studies/ details/ urban sketching…)