In the Crealde School of Art Summer Urban Sketching classes we cover composition, perspective, drawing the figure, and watercolor. We start with a lesson plan where I discuss the day’s topic and do sketches on a chalk board. I tend to explain better with line rather than words.
Then students spend much of the class sketching. I sketch along with them and share each step of my process so they get a feel for how long each step takes.
I also do pencil thumbnail sketches for each student explaining what could be adjusted inn the sketch they are doing to help improve it.
At the end of class we all put down the favorite sketch and then they get to learn from each other, discussing what works best.
Unfortunately not enough students signed up, so the next series of classes were canceled.