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Illustration
Illustration
Drawing buildings from life
Learn perspective, light and shade by drawing the streets around you.
with Tomasz Wren
Weeks
8
Lessons
16
Per week
3–4 hrs
Format
Live cohort
Classes
Wed
19:00
Starts
What you’ll make
A sketchbook of 30 building studies
Confident one- and two-point perspective
Light and shade that make a façade feel solid
A finished full-page drawing of a building you love
Week by week
Week 01
Seeing in boxes
Ten quick box sketches of street corners
Week 02
One-point perspective
A street drawn to one vanishing point
Week 03
Two-point perspective
A corner building from the pavement
Week 04
Windows, doors and rhythm
A façade with repeated openings
Week 05
Light and shade
A building in three tones
Week 06
Detail without clutter
A doorway in close-up
Week 07
Drawing on location
A sketch walk, six small drawings
Week 08
Your building
A finished full-page study
Your tutor
Tomasz Wren
Architectural illustrator, draws on location
Tomasz draws buildings for architects, councils and the occasional pub sign. He has filled more than sixty sketchbooks on street corners and will show you how to see a building as simple shapes before you draw a single line.
From a student
Before you book
Every live class is recorded and posted the same night. Watch it when you can, hand in the brief by Sunday, and you still get written notes from your tutor.
Kit list
A 2B pencil, an A5 sketchbook and a soft eraser. About £12.
that’s all you need
