Course Details
Discover Ian Fennelly’s signature urban sketching techniques through easy-to-follow lessons. Perfect for beginners and aspiring artists alike, this course guides you from the basics to advanced concepts, ensuring your sketches capture the essence of any location.
- Selecting Perfect Locations: Find inspiration everywhere.
- Unique Pen & Ink Techniques: Enhance your sketches with professional precision.
- Mastering Water: Bring your sketches to life with vibrant s and expressive washes.
- Simplifying Perspective & Proportions: Create accurate yet dynamic compositions.
- Sketching from Photos: Capture scenes even when you’re at home.
Ian’s proven techniques are broken down into simple, actionable steps, empowering you to create stunning sketches confidently from the comfort of your home.
About Your Instructor
Ian Fennelly is a world-renowned urban sketcher celebrated for his vibrant style, captivating on-location sketches, and engaging teaching methods. With a dedicated global following, Ian has inspired thousands to embrace their creativity through sketching.
Now, for the first time, Ian shares his exclusive step-by-step methodology online, guiding you personally through every technique needed to master the art of urban sketching—right from your home.
Join Ian and begin your journey to artistic confidence today!
Your Lessons: What You'll Create
This comprehensive course includes four detailed online workshops designed to rapidly build your urban sketching skills and artistic confidence.
Each workshop is structured into bite-sized lessons with step-by-step guidance, reference photos, and clear instructions—allowing you to learn conveniently at your own pace.
In this first online workshop, you will learn how to draw a beautiful scene of the English Bridge from the historical town of Shrewsbury, England.
The shapes in this scene, the strong perspective of the bridge and the beautiful protruding church, make it the perfect starting point for your beginner’s sketching journey.
You will learn Ian’s methods for finding the best spot to draw from, sketching in pencil, getting the proportions right, drawing wonderful perspective, simplifying your sketch, emphasizing with pen, drawing reflections, applying s, hatching techniques, drawing on paint and more.
Even if this is your very first sketch, you’ll be amazed at the speed and the progress you make. Best of all, you’ll have the skills and confidence to go out and start sketching your own scenes.
In this lesson, you’ll capture the character and charm of the iconic Tanners Wine Merchants building.
Ian guides you step-by-step to:
- Create accurate architectural proportions effortlessly.
- Emphasize textures and depth with dynamic pen strokes.
- Bring buildings to life with vibrant, expressive watercolor techniques.
- Confidently capture complex details and historic atmosphere.
Sketch the bustling, vibrant atmosphere of Church Street with precision and style.
You’ll learn how to:
- Quickly simplify complex street scenes into clear sketches.
- Capture engaging perspectives that draw viewers in.
- Enhance sketches with effective ink detailing and shadows.
- Apply watercolor confidently to convey mood and energy.
Discover the secrets to sketching Wyle Cop, famous for its charming buildings and character-filled streetscape.
This workshop teaches you to:
- Master challenging perspectives with ease and accuracy.
- Depict architectural character and personality through simple shapes.
- Use creative ink techniques to enhance visual appeal.
- Combine pen and watercolor to create engaging urban sketches.
Why This Course is Different
This Urban Sketching for Beginner’s course has some notable differences to any other courses you may have taken:
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Exclusive Bonuses to Supercharge Your Sketching Skills!
When you invest in this training course, you’ll also get these 4 bonuses included absolutely FREE (Worth ).
Rapid Skill-Building Exercise Bundle
Accelerate your sketching skills with Ian’s exclusive Rapid Skill-Building Exercises.
These quick, fun, and practical exercises teach essential techniques like perspective, hatching, textures, blending, and more.
Effortlessly elevate your sketches from basic to captivating!
Introduction to Urban Sketching Bonus Module
Brand new to sketching? This exclusive bonus module is your perfect starting point.
Ian gently guides you from your very first pencil stroke, helping you master the basics of perspective, composition, and theory.
Quickly overcome hesitation and build artistic confidence—step-by-step.
We understand that not every ‘beginner’ is the same. Some beginners can already draw, while others are starting from complete scratch, unsure of where to begin.
If you’ve ever felt anxious, doubtful, or thought that you “just can’t draw,” this training is made for you. Ian has carefully crafted this module to eliminate any fear or hesitation, helping you build confidence with each stroke.
If you can hold a pen, you can learn to sketch – let Ian show you how in this special training module.
Urban Sketchers Feedback Gallery
Gain exclusive access to our private, supportive feedback gallery.
Share your sketches in a welcoming community, get personalized feedback, and watch your skills flourish.
This positive, judgment-free space helps you overcome challenges, gain inspiration, and boost your confidence.
“Historic City Sketching Workshop”
Enjoy special access to Ian’s recorded 3-hour live workshop. Sketch alongside Ian as he reveals expert techniques for capturing historic architecture and iconic landmarks.
Featuring a bonus Q&A session, this intimate training provides invaluable insight into Ian’s creative process.
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Why Take the urban Sketching for Beginners Course?
Creating this online course has been a labor of love for Ian. He’s poured his heart into it and everything he knows from decades as a professional artist, and traveling the world training hundreds of aspiring urban sketchers.
But getting personal training from a much sought-after artist like Ian is neither cheap nor practical for most people. A week-long sketching workshop can set you back thousands of dollars.
With the Urban Sketching for Beginners online course, you’re getting the same training from a world leading artist and teacher – for a fraction of the cost. What’s more, it is completely self-paced, so you get to learn it all from the comfort of home, in your own time.
If you’re ready to skip the vast learning curve (and expense), and get the training that will transform you from a complete beginner to a confident and skilled sketcher creating beautiful artwork that fills you with pride, then take the Urban Sketching for Beginners course today.
You’ll be astonished at the speed and the results you achieve.
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FREE BONUS 2: Introduction to Urban Sketching ( Value)
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FREE BONUS 3: Urban Sketch Feedback Gallery ( Value)
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FREE BONUS 4: 3-Hour Private Training Workshop ( Value)
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Downloadable Workfiles
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Frequently Asked Questions
In this course Ian has assumed no prior knowledge, skills or experience. Starting with a pencil and a blank page, you’ll be guided step-by-step, from drawing your first line, to slowly building up your picture, piece-by-piece.
You’ll learn how to draw the right shapes, how to get the proportions right on your page first and then how to carefully layer your picture with more detail, and tone.
You’ll be amazed at the speed and the results you achieve, even if you haven’t picked up a pencil since high school.
Yes. This is over-my-shoulder learning with Ian Fennelly.
Ian is an experienced and engaging teacher and has broken each workshop down into easy-to-follow stages. Within each of those stages he takes you through each step in the process, while explaining everything he is doing, slowly and methodically.
You can also slow down, pause, or speed up each tutorial to suit your own style of learning. And with lifetime access, you can watch the course over and over again.
While this course has been designed for beginners, many experienced sketcher’s take it to learn more about Ian’s specific techniques and style, and his particular thinking behind certain components of sketching, such as choice.
Along with the sketching side, you’re also learning other important factors of urban sketching, such as how Ian chooses the perfect locations and viewpoints, how Ian deals with the general public, and how he infuses his work with storytelling and the subtle details he brings into his work.
Yes, you’ll get lifetime access to the course and all of the supporting downloads and resources that come with it. It never expires which means that you can you learn in your own time and at your own pace.
Our learning platform is super simple to use. Each tutorial is delivered by video and requires nothing more than clicking the play button.
Yes, this course includes subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and German to enhance your learning experience and accessibility.
The Urban Sketching for Beginner’s Course was part-filmed in the historic market town of Shrewsbury, England and part in Ian’s private studio.
With its winding cobblestone streets lined with pretty boutiques and rows of crooked, half-timbered Tudor buildings – Shrewsbury has all the elements Ian needed to teach you urban sketching as you’ve never been taught it before!
Here are the notable differences between this course and the other urban sketching courses we offer:
1. Pencil: Ian starts this Beginner’s course using a pencil, instead of a fineliner. Pencil is much more forgiving and allows you to make mistakes, rub out, and redo. It’s perfect for beginners.
2. Exercises: This course includes a series of technical exercises that are separate from the main course. This allows you to practice specific techniques on a separate piece of paper, before you apply them to your main picture.
These carefully designed exercises are intended to build your skills and confidence quickly as you sketch each picture.
Exercises include hatching, drawing perspective, pen work, drawing on paint, understanding, choosing and mixing , brush pen techniques, and more.
3. Skill Building: In this beginners course, each of the four workshops builds on the skills you learned in the previous one. So, as you progress through the course, you are adding new skills while building your competence and confidence, step-by-step.
In our other urban sketching courses, each workshop is typically ‘standalone’.
Yes. As per our better-than-risk-free guarantee above, if you’re anything less than thrilled with the training and value that we’ve packed into this course then just contact our support team within 30-days and we’ll cheerfully refund your money in full, immediately.
There’s no hoops to jump through. Even better, as a thank you for trying the course we will let you keep the 3-hour Historic City Sketching Workshop worth , with our compliments!