Learn How To Draw

Drawing for urban design and field sketching are essential skills for planners who want to make observations about a landscape and understand the contextual clues offered by the built environment. “Learn How To Draw” is a four course track intended to give students the skill and confidence to create their own drawings of the built environment. By the end of this course, students will draw lines and contours, understand perspective, and accurately render tone and value. Follow Darryl Jones around the San Francisco Bay Area as he teaches basic sketching techniques and more advanced painting skills. Each course in this track is approved for AICP CM credit.

Drawing in the Landscape: The Adventure Begins

This is the first course in the Drawing series. In this course, you will learn techniques for drawing, sketching and rendering in the field. You will learn how to draw lines and contours, understand perspective, and render tone and value with light and shadow.

36 Mins

AICP CM

Drawing in the Landscape: Pen, Pencil and Watercolor

This is the second course in the Drawing series. This course focuses on the benefits of other mediums, using pencil, pen, watercolor to draw an assortment of common built environment features: plants, people, architecture as well as exploring panoramic vistas.

57 Mins

AICP CM

Drawing in the Landscape: Painting Color

This is the third course in the Drawing series. In this course we inquire into the nature of observing and representing color works in transitive environments, building upon the initial sketch, and beginning watercolor technique.

68 Mins

AICP CM

Drawing in the Landscape: Water and Oil

This is the fourth and final course in the Drawing series. In this course we inquire into the nature of observing and representing color works in transitive environments, building upon the initial sketch, and beginning water color and oil technique.

44 Mins

AICP CM