WORKSHOP

Sketching is storytelling. It is about capturing the moment and its essence. It increases visual and spatial awareness and is extremely accessible as a tool for any creative process. It is emotionally rewarding as an artistic endeavor, and if done right, can be meditative as well.

To tell a compelling story, it is important to compose and capture the scene in a timely manner, while at the same time not worry too much about accuracy and getting bogged down by the details.

In this workshop we will work on honing the skills needed to compose a scene and capture the essentials. We will incorporate fast confident lines and reduce the scene to its basic elements using shapes, layers, and values. We will do exercises to get us comfortable in creating bold and confident lines, to discern basic shapes in a scene, and compose the final sketch. Participants may choose to use pen, marker, or pencil to create black and white line drawings.

Supply list

• Your favorite pen, marker, or pencil to create black and white line drawings
• Below are some of my favorite sketching tools:
  • Lamy Safari fountain pen
  • Hongdian Forest Series fountain pen with bent nib
  • Papermate Flair Pen with medium nib
  • Pentel mechanical pencil 0.7/0.9 mm with 2B lead
  • Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens – soft and hard tip
  • Tombow Dual Brush Pen Art Markers, Grayscale 
  • Pentel Aquash Light Black Pigment Ink Filled Water Brush
  • Moleskine Art Sketchbook
  • Stillman & Birn Epsilon Series