Traveler’s Urban Sketchbook 3: Drawing in Perspective

A quick and easy approach for beginners who want to add perspective to their sketches or paintings.

Created by: Marilee Nielsen
Artist and Art Teacher

What Will I Learn?

• Learn a quick and easy way to create 1 Point, 2 Point and 3 Point Perspective Drawings.
• Apply these quick and easy techniques to outdoor sketches.
• Learn how to create realistic street and urban scenes with depth using linear perspective!
• Useful techniques for both sketchers and painters.

Requirements

• It's helpful for you to have taken Traveler's Sketchbook Part One and Part Two but it is not necessary.
• If you have previous sketching experience and feel comfortable observing and recording objects that are proportionally correct, you will benefit from this course.
• Supplies include paper and a sketchbook, pencil, pens, eraser, and a straight edge like a small ruler.

Target audience

• Beginning students who need some help to creating realistic sketches of urban scenes.
• Painters who want to improve the perspective in their paintings.