How to Simplify Complex Urban Scenes: Intermediate Urban Sketching Course

Learn how you can simplify and sketch complex scenes with this course. This course will help you analyse and break down complicated scenes for sketching. You'll also learn to be more confident and manage the feeling of being overwhelmed.

This 133-minute course is for intermediate learners who already have some basic knowledge of sketching from observation. For beginners, I recommend you check out my beginner courses first.

You'll just need a pen and some paper to follow along with the exercises. There's a bonus tutorial on painting with tonal values, and for that you'll need ink and brush, or waterbrushes.

Here are the lessons in this class:

1. Intro
2. Tools for drawing (6 min)
3A. Simplify a detailed building pt1/3 (14 min)
3B. Simplify a detailed building pt2/3 (16 min)
3C. Simplify a detailed building pt3/3 (7 min)
4A. Draw a busy market scene pt1/3 (17 min)
4B. Draw a busy market scene pt2/3 (19 min)
4C. Create contrast with tonal values (17 min)
4D. Draw a busy market scene pt3/3 (14 min)
5. Extra exercises
6. Bonus lesson: 9 buildings in 9 minutes (23 min)
7. End

The bonus video was originally published on Youtube ( https://youtu.be/TXZ8Txnwh3g )