How to Sketch Places Quickly

Super straight to the point, no further discussions and promotions. I thought channels like these don’t exist

Block hatching. That's what I learned from your video today. Thanks!

...this is the first video I watch and they just go to the point of the video from the start

The goal of this lesson, and others from my 'Sketching Places Quickly' course is to help you reduce a scene down to it's most basic elements, whilst still capturing the essence of the place. Working from reference photos is great practice for transitioning to outdoors, where you've got the elements working against you, as well a nosey passers-by! If you want to have a go at this exercise, you'll find a link to the reference photo in the description. The challenge is to draw the scene 3 times on the stopwatch, with each attempt faster than the one previous. The target time for the first attempt should be no more than 20-25 minutes. By the third sketch you should be aiming for 15 minutes. Although I've speeded the video up slightly in some parts, it only reduced the total time of this lesson by a couple of minutes. Without commentary, I completed this sketch a second time in 16 minutes. Enjoy and let me know how you get on in the comments below! Phil.

*when you want to sketch like arthur morgan

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 but in the game the main character has a journal he periodically sketches in. I’ve been playing through the game again and forgot how much I loved the detailed yet messy sketches that he filled his journal and got me thinking I should give it a go but didn’t know where to start. This video helps out a ton, thanks!

Sound of Pencil to the Paper is Music 😌🎶📝

This was recommended to me 2 years late. Thank you for this incredibly helpful video!

I really enjoyed this. It's straight to the point, and easy to follow. I love drawing buildings and places I've taken pictures of, this helped me really get into it.

I love that you showed what it looks like without really nice lighting.

Years of learning how to draw, never being explained this throughly and logically. It makes so much sense now! Thank you so much! ❤️

Every time it speeds up I start shaking.

The Gordon Ramsay of drawing...

I have kept a trail journal for the past few months and this video helped me immensely with my pen illustrations

Thank you for this, I am now one step closer to replicating Kentaro Miura's skill with landscapes

Absolutely amazing to watch from start to finish. You manage to capture the presence so well with so much simplicity, its great. This is truly the definition of "sketching". You deserve to be paid for the services you provide and I would happily subscribe.

I love this tutorial so much!! It's really facinating getting down the basics and putting in work. I need to practice so bad using any reference photos for landscape. Thank YOU,sir!

Thank you so much, Phil. Excellent, lucid, in-depth; teaching at its best.

I really like how you use shapes and values to suggest detail, such a good tip!

Thank you so much. I can see more clearly how to reproduce a difficult image grom.this demonstration.. it's great to watch and hear clear explanations without distracting conversation that is unrelated to your lovely work