- 8 Quick Sketch Workshops
- 2 Bonuses
Course Details
Navigating a hectic schedule filled with work, family, and endless appointments often leaves little room for your sketching passion. In this special training course, Ian Fennelly solves this dilemma by teaching you the art of quick sketching.
Imagine if you could transform just 30 minutes of your day into a session of crafting beautiful black-and-white sketches. You'll discover Ian's best kept secrets, original techniques, and little-known tips that he uses to convert everyday scenes, from simple buildings to architectural wonders, into rapid, effortless pen sketches - good enough to grace any wall.
Whether it's during your lunch break or waiting for your next appointment, by the end of this course, you'll possess the skills to seize brief moments and transform fleeting minutes into beautiful art.
Your Quick Sketching Training
Quick sketching demands a different set of skills to traditional art. Instead of the leisurely pace that allows you to capture every detail you see - you're racing against time, attempting to encapsulate bustling city scenes or grab the essence of a building, in just a few strokes.
To do this you need to know what marks to put down on your paper first, which shapes to draw next, and most importantly, what details to leave out while still capturing the essence of what you see.
In the Quick Sketch Course, Ian Fennelly delivers his entire quick sketching process in an easy-to-understand way - no matter what your experience level.
Through this special training you'll gain the skills to be able to capture even the most complex scenes in minutes, instead of hours.
8 Quick Sketching Workshops
Here's an overview of the eight workshops you'll get instant access to when you take Ian Fennelly's Quick Sketch course.
#1 + 2 The Royal Albert Dock
Workshop 1: Old Steam Tugboat
The Royal Albert Dock dominated global trade in the 19th century. In this first workshop, you'll capture an old steam tugboat moored at the dock, gaining insights on how to incorporate the subject within the broader landscape. This first workshop focuses on understanding how to quickly assess and integrate the foreground, midground, and background into your composition.
Workshop 2: The Grand Entrance
Continue your journey further along the dock as you learn to sketch the Grand Entrance, capturing its various angles and captivating details. This workshop will show you how to quick compose your scene and how to use adjacent buildings to give your picture added depth and perspective to draw your viewer into your scene.
You'll also learn how to quickly capture details like columns, cobbles, steps and patterns while learning the elements you should always leave out of a scene like this.
#3 + 4 The Waterfront
Workshop 3: The Tate
In this scene, you'll learn how to draw The Tate, a well-known modern art gallery. You'll learn how to frame the art gallery in your scene as you sweep along the dock, focusing on the piermaster's house while fast-sketching all of the interesting details in between.
Workshop 4: Dry Dock
In workshop 4, you'll sketch a dramatic schooner boat resting in a dry dock. There are lots of interesting shapes and small details to capture in this scene, like cascading steps, dramatic beams, rigging and rivets.
You'll also focus on capturing the background layers and discover how to use the various docks as framing devices. Finally, you'll learn the trick to bringing your sketch to vivid life by including often overlooked details in the foreground.
#5 + 6 Iconic Locations
#7 + 8 Ropewalks
Workshop 7: The Ropewalks
The Rope Walks is a lively area of Liverpool, packed with bars and restaurants. This workshop is about how to simplify and quickly sketch a complex scene, capturing the essence and atmosphere, but without getting bogged down by every detail.
You'll learn how use a variety of materials including different shades of brush pens, fine liners and roller balls to add depth to your sketch and bring the scene to life through details and textures.
Workshop 8: Chinatown
In your final workshop, you'll use all of the skills you have learnt so far to draw a beautiful and dramatic Chinese arch, built block by block in Shanghai.
The arch will be your starting point, but you'll also capture the sweep of the road and use the buildings to further your composition.
About Your Instructor
Ian Fennelly is a renowned urban sketcher and one of the most in-demand instructors in the world. Known for his vibrant on-the-spot drawings, captivating instructional style, and boundless creativity, Ian has garnered an enthusiastic global audience.
In the Quick Sketch Course, Ian unveils his unique approach to capturing the essence of city life with rapid, expressive strokes. This course offers a deep dive into Ian's techniques for quickly sketching urban landscapes, blending architecture and the bustling energy of city scenes into captivating art.
Take this training course and learn the secrets to quick sketching - an enviable skill for life!
Easy-To-Follow Training
The key to crafting compelling quick sketches lies in mastering depth, spatial awareness, and contrast. Ian's structured training demystifies these concepts for any urban setting you aim to depict.
Ideal for beginner urban sketchers, this course provides a clear, step-by-step guide for transforming complex scenes into captivating artwork.
Here are some of the key components covered in these workshops:
Easy Art Tools
Discover how Ian works with a limited selection of art supplies to encourage faster and more confident strokes. A few pens can be incredibly versatile when you're familiar with their range of marks.
Speedy Structures
Learn Ian’s techniques for quickly identifying compelling compositions that convey a story through sketches. This includes framing a scene and identifying focal points.
Texture Training
Uncover Ian's simple processes for adding textures in the foreground to lead the viewer into the scene and how this contrasts to less defined textures in the background. When executed skillfully, this approach imbues your entire scene with a dynamic sense of depth.
Selective Detailing
Discover how to avoid the temptation to add too much detail by focusing on just enough detail to make the subject recognizable but keep it minimal. Helping to speed up the sketching process and adding an element of stylisation to your work.
Expressive Masterclass
Learn Ian's effective methods for quick and lively sketches with swift, expressive strokes to capture their essence and overall form rather than their intricate details.
Contrast Coaching
Discover the specific shapes, strength, and tonal values that Ian uses when just using ink to create strong visual contrast in scenes. Learn techniques for applying light and simple shading to suggest form and depth without using bold .
The Location
There was no setting more fitting than Liverpool for Ian to introduce you to his quick urban sketching techniques. This is the city where Ian's own urban sketching journey began as a young artist.
With its dynamic blend of historic waterfront architecture, bustling streets, and modern art installations, Liverpool offers a unique canvas for any artist. From the iconic skyline dominated by the Liver Building to the cultural vibrancy of the Albert Dock and the Beatles' heritage.
Now, it's your opportunity to capture the essence of Liverpool's spirit and charm as Ian takes you through the streets, guiding your hand to sketch the city's life, all from the comfort of your own home.
FREE BONUSES
When you invest in this training course, you'll also get these bonuses included absolutely FREEFree Bonus 1
Sketchbook Tour
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Take a tour around Ian's finished sketchbook as he talks you through his first-ever urban sketches and some of the stories behind them. Learn Ian's thought process as he outlines the differences between his sketches and reflects in a special interview on how this sketchbook started a new sketching journey and career across the world.
Free Bonus 2
Urban Sketchers Feedback Gallery
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Buy this course and you'll also gain access to our thriving online feedback gallery. This is a safe and private place where urban sketchers of all abilities can share their work without judgement - while getting positive, constructive feedback from supportive, like-minded sketchers who are all rooting for you! There's no better place to learn, overcome challenges and build your confidence and skills than the Urban Sketch Feedback Gallery.
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Ready to Master The Art of Quick Sketching?
Wherever you find yourself, there's a moment waiting to be captured with your sketchbook and pens.
From the energetic pulse of city life to the essence of a charming building, this special training course equips you with a skill for life that you can use anytime to sketch any scene with speed, skill, and confidence.
If you've ever struggled with finding the time to sketch, or you're someone who prefers to capture things quickly rather than spend hours on location, then Ian Fennelly's Quick Sketch Course is the right decision for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
How easy is this course for a complete beginner like me?
I'm an advanced sketcher, is this course worthwhile for me?
Can I follow along with Ian while taking this course?
What's the difference between this course and your other courses?
In this course, Ian Fennelly teaches his two-step 'Quick Sketching' methodology.
Here's a quick run-down of the key differences between this course and other urban sketching courses:
- Colour - there's no colour in this course. Instead, you'll learn how to compensate for a lack of color by learning hatching, dotting, texture, shading, tonal values, and particular uses of detail to bring your sketches to life.
- Speed - there are just 2 steps to Ian's Quick Sketch process. You don't need to take half a day out of your busy schedule to go and sketch. You can do this on a lunch break, while waiting for an appointment, or while sat on the beach.
If finding the time to sketch has been an issue for you up to now, then this course eliminates that.
- Detail - this is a masterclass in how to simplify any complex scene, yet still capture the essence and energy of whatever you're sketching.
- Location - the Quick Sketch course was filmed on-location in the vibrant City of Liverpool.
- Mindset - the biggest hurdle for beginners is overcoming your own self-limiting beliefs. The Quick Sketch course helps you to overcome procrastination, frustration, fear, self-criticism. It builds your confidence from the ground up.
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Do I get lifetime course access?
Yes, you'll receive lifetime access to the course along with all accompanying downloads and resources. It never expires, allowing you to learn at your own pace, on your schedule, and any device.
I struggle with time, is this course quick and easy to get through?
Yes. The whole premise of the course is quick!
There are just 2 stages to this process and no watercolour involved. You can learn this quickly and you can start practising these techniques in just a few minutes a day. This is fast and a whole lot of fun!