05 | Learn to look at the city
Urban sketching workshops in Buenos Aires and online. You don't need to know how to draw: you need to want to look.
Grupos de hasta 6 personas o clases individuales. Precios por persona.
In person | Buenos Aires
2 h 30 min | Materials included
Meeting point to be arranged
Your first time drawing on the street, with someone alongside you. You learn how to choose what to draw, how to frame it, how to handle perspective without fear and how to turn the noise of the city into a page.
You take away: your first pages drawn on location and a method to keep going on your own.
USD 40per person
2 h 30 min | Materials included
Meeting point to be arranged
A drawing walk. We set off from a meeting point and stop every 10 or 15 minutes to make quick sketches along the route. It's training in synthesis and speed: capturing the essentials before the scene changes.
You take away: a sequence of sketches of the route and a faster hand.
USD 40per person
New8 places | Intimate
In person | Buenos Aires | Café
Watercolors, inks, coffee and medialunas. An intimate gathering in a Buenos Aires café to share techniques, tips and everything you need to know about materials. We draw the space, the people, the atmosphere. No previous experience needed.
Date to be confirmed | Buenos Aires
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Online | From anywhere
90-minute class
The fundamentals to start drawing what you see, from home and at your own pace.
You take away: a clear method for your first outing on the street.
USD 35per person
Pack of 4 classes of 90 min
The complete path: line, perspective, value, color and composition, class by class. The best option if you want to make real progress.
You take away: a solid foundation, and each class costs less than a single one.
USD 125per person, all 4 classes
Testimonios
Quienes ya dibujaron conmigo
Before the course I drew intuitively, without considering the observer's point of view, without a horizon line, vanishing points or line construction, etc. The course practice gave me compositional techniques and taught me to do it consciously, which is necessary for a more professional result. It also taught me the use and selection of the materials best suited to urban sketching. The course is highly recommended for anyone who wants to get started in the technique and achieve professional artistic results in 4 sessions.
Ariel Olivetti
Fundamentals of outdoor drawing · Online, 4 classes
Very recommended. Very good explanations, extremely didactic. Before the classes I couldn't frame a scene; it was very hard for me to fit even a single building on the page. I learned to place scenes considering the horizon line, and to draw people and buildings more loosely. Recommended for all levels.
Ale Ingrassia
Introduction to urban sketching · In person, 1 session
Excellent courses, super didactic! William is not only a great artist but also a great teacher, and very generous with everything he shares.
Karin Civit
Introduction to urban sketching · In person
With the tools William shared with us, the perspective became a bit clearer for me and, in general, finding a suitable view to represent. What I found hardest was drawing outdoors, because of the many elements to observe, besides the vanishing points and perspective. I recommend it to everyone who wants to paint or draw outdoors: artists, architects, or anyone eager to discover the city through drawing.
Gabriela Canno
In person · 2 sessions of 3 h
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Drawing is not reproducing reality. It's learning to look at it with a different kind of attention: slower, more curious, more honest.
I was a teaching assistant and then a lecturer in Graphic Expression at the Faculty of Architecture. I always insisted on the same thing: rather than teaching people to draw, teaching them to communicate and express. And I always took my students out of the classroom to draw. Today I do the same on the streets of Buenos Aires.
We grow up conditioned by realistic drawing, by the "pretty" painting in the living room and by the cartoons of our childhood, the time in our lives when we draw the most. If those were our references, it's no surprise that's how we try to draw. The problem comes when it doesn't work out and we say "I can't draw" or "my drawing is ugly". I've lost count of how many times I heard that in class. Breaking that stigma is possible once you understand that drawing is communicating.
Drawing outdoors is one of the best ways to train observation. Beyond perspective, the human figure, vegetation and shadows, there's the need to capture an everyday situation in real time. With practice, the line gains confidence and the synthesis improves. You learn by looking and drawing again.
Leaving the classroom to come face to face with reality was compulsory in my course: we drew in parks, squares and around the faculty, and we even drew each other to understand geometry and proportion. Years later I still do the same. The question is still the same: what do you want to communicate with this line? The answer is never "a pretty drawing". It's always something far more interesting.