Tiny Sketching Workshop

Sketching small has a number of advantages: it’s quick, it’s portable, and can give you tools that will help you in your larger sketches! Fitting a large view in a tiny space teaches you to boil down lots of detail into a few strokes. Everyone always comments on the amount of detail a tiny sketch has, when in reality the trick is knowing what detail to exclude and how to put in detail in a shorthand for maximum impact and minimum effort. This workshop will explore new ways to approach detail, and make subjects recognizable in tiny sketches, while strengthening composition.

Workshop will include a presentation on techniques, reviewing concepts and things to keep in mind while sketching, with examples of tiny sketches, followed by a demonstration where I will demonstrate some techniques, and do a full tiny sketch start to finish . The last third of the class you'll have the chance to try a tiny sketch of your own!

Suggested Materials:

Workshop can be completed in pen, graphite, or watercolor: However, I recommend having smaller tools in your chosen materials (.005, .01 mechanical pens like Pigma Micron or similar, .3 mechanical pencil or extra sharp traditional pencils, small brushes, etc. Recommend a Signo White Gel Pen and small Pigma Microns even if you are using watercolor, and a Tombow Mono Zero eraser if you are using graphite). Have paper appropriate to the materials of your choosing, can be in small format already or use larger paper and box off areas for smaller sketches. I generally recommend smoother paper (hot press instead of cold press) because it's easier to work in when you go really tiny, but workshop can be completed in either.

Workshop will be online and available to everyone, you don't have to be here in New York! There will be no playback available after the workshop is over, it is only live.