The flagship course
Learn to Sketch with Ink and Watercolours for Beginners: Your First Fearless Line & Wash
The only course that covers everything about my signature ‘Sketch Loose’ style. Learn advanced skills to tackle challenging scenes. Wet on wet watercolour, intuitive perspective, detailed ink work, and the beautiful chaos of urban landscapes.
£99
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Over 10 hours of pre-recorded video lessons · Written guides and examples throughout · Feedback direct from Toby
Art from the course
These are just a handful of the 20+ scenes we tackle in this course. Alongside many more studies and exercises. Together this helps keep us engaged and excited for the next step, whilst learning skills and mindsets that help improve our sketching.
The scenes in this course focus on urban scenes, however, there are occasional still life scenes and semi-rural scenes (e.g. coastal villages) as part of the syllabus.
Course preview
Workshop 3 – ‘Fundamentals Refresher’
Watch the full free preview lesson here
Sketching Study: Thumbnail-ing for Simplification · 31:08
Concepts: Seeing Shapes and Finding Your Style · 4:03
Concepts: Beyond Simple Shapes · 8:21
Sketching Study: The VENN of Shapes, Composition and Tone · 12:16
🎯 Challenge — Simplify, Simplify, Simplify · 16:05
Concepts: Hatching 101 · 9:07
Concepts: Advanced Hatching · 9:51
Sketching Study: ‘Makit-a’ Good One · 19:43
Sketching Study and Concepts: The Effect of Mark · 26:26
🎯 Challenge — Balancing Ink and Light · 19:43
Sketching Study: Vital Fundamentals Refresher · 21:16
Concepts: Watercolour Science · 6:45
Sketching Study: Painting in 5 Strokes · 20:14
Concepts: Wet-on-Wet · 6:51
🎯 Challenge — Wet-on-Wet as Part of the Process · 32:35
Exact supplies are overrated! · 15:14
The true meaning of line and wash · 11:22
Concepts: The Focal Point · 8:10
Concepts: Compositional Elements · 10:05
Sketching Study: Contrast · 23:25
Sketching Study: Minimalism · 8:19
🎯 Challenge — Connecting Colours · 21:23
Concepts: Why simple colours are important · 3:16
Sketching Study: Colour Theory and Composition · 13:32
Sketching Study: Analogous Colours · 8:20
Concepts: Being Intentional (beyond the colour wheel) · 5:04
🎯 Challenge — Triadic Colours in a Complex Scene · 18:58
Concepts: Introducing Perspective · 4:43
Concepts: Overcoming Common Challenges · 13:09
Sketching Study: Complexities, Hills and Curves · 27:18
Sketching Study: Vertical Perspective · 25:51
🎯 Challenge — Complex and Curved Perspective · 38:22
Concepts and Challenge: Night Scenes · 35:45
Concepts and Challenge: Boats and Water · 31:36
Incorporate Your Ideas · 18:16
Sketchbook review · 7:05
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Allow me to introduce you to the course
Urban Ink & Watercolours is my most technically ambitious course, and honestly, my favourite to teach. It’s got a steeper learning curve than the Core Skills courses, but that’s exactly the point. Get a feel for what’s waiting inside.
What You’ll Need
Here’s a simple kit that’ll see you through the whole course, nothing expensive, nothing you won’t use. If you have any questions after reading this list just email me: toby@sketchloose.co.uk
For the more advanced techniques in this course, 100% cotton 300gsm paper around A4 (12×9 inches) is recommended. A regular watercolour sketchbook is fine to start with, but upgrading your paper makes a real difference when you’re working with wet on wet techniques.
A range of fine liners from 0.1–0.8mm. For urban work you’ll want that variety, thin lines for detail, thicker for bold outlines. I personally will use my fountain pen throughout most of this course. For information on waterproof fountain pen safe inks check out the supplies link below.
Use what you have to start. But this is a good point to start exploring professional paints if you’re ready to — the difference in vibrancy and control is worth the investment when you’re tackling techniques like wet on wet.
Build a range — various round and flat brushes give you options. Aim for sizes up to a round 24 and a 1 inch flat. A water brush is handy if you’re sketching on location.
Review spotlight
What people are saying…
Geoff
“Excellent varied course which taught me a lot and gave me confidence to have a go at anything. I will certainly be doing some more of your courses. Very enjoyable and confidence building.”
Dave S
” have truly enjoyed this course. Every lesson had a new challenge. Can easily say every drawing was not perfect but I can say I learn so much from each of them. Thank you Toby. Onward and upward for me doing Sketch Loose.”
Joyce D
“I really enjoyed this workshop and feel proud of what I created throughout the whole course, especially since I only started sketching and using watercolors about five months ago. The feedback was incredibly helpful and gave me more confidence to experiment and trust my own style. Fantastic, thank you!”
“Urban sketching has always felt just out of reach – too much to think about, too many rules. This course throws the rulebook out and hands you something better: confidence.”
Urban Ink & Watercolours is the course I wished existed when I started sketching cities. It’s challenging. It’s exciting. And once it clicks, you won’t be able to stop.
DEEP DIVE COURSE
Urban sketching that’s challenging, exciting, and totally worth it.
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