Architectural Sketching Workshop

This two-day workshop is an ideal introduction to pen and ink techniques and basic methods required to draw architecture.

Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October
with Mark Poulier

Suited for all levels, from beginners to more experienced in ink drawing, the workshop will cover the fundamentals and hone skills already mastered.

Working from reference and real life, each student will complete a drawing of a local hawthorn iconic building by the end of the workshop.

Mark will teach through demonstrations and one-on-one time with each student, going through his process step-by-step, from mark making, perspective, composition and rendering detail.

The workshop will focus on skills to record the light and render tone and texture to beautifully capture a building’s character.

Day 1. Saturday inside (HAS Performance Space)

• Introducing me, my work examples 

• discovering the medium, pens etc. 

• rendering techniques to suit light on surfaces. 

• Measuring for proportion and perspective fundamentals

• Textures: built and natural like trees and sky

• Exercises

Day 2. Sunday, outdoor

• Onsite drawing the town hall perhaps to produce one finished piece 

• Discuss composition and subject choice

• Final show and tell

Note if wet weather postpones day 2, the session will be run Sunday 25 October.

Materials are simply an A4 sketchbook, pencil, eraser and a few ink pens like Sakura Microns. 005, 01 and 03 (3 sizes). All available at Eckersley’s, Seniors, Deans and other good art supplier stores.

Mark Poulier has drawn architecture for many years locally and held workshops in New York. He has developed a successful online drawing course and his daily practice of drawing architecture is followed by around 300k on instagram.