F06 - Sketching Outdoors

Beginner |14 Pages - 27 Illustrations


Sketching is an action word, and you can only learn this skill by actually sketching. In this lesson, I first offer suggestions for putting together a portable studio for your outings. I then take you step-by -step through the process of rendering a sketch of an outdoor scene.

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