First was the question: Why do we accept that after several years of drawing courses at school, almost nobody really can draw?
… and then the solution is, to apply a method for teaching drawing that almost all artists and designers apply. The challenge is, how to translate the process of abstraction from viewing voluminous objects in space to sketching with lines on the flat surface of the paper.
Get an impression of what is possible: One hundred students learned to sketch during four days. In this film there are three sketches of each and every student.
Individual online learning
Enrol in a course and follow the individual sketcher’s journey.
Sketching is a powerful tool for ideation and supporting visual problem-solving.
This course will introduce various sketching hints and tools derived from artists and useful for everyone. Examples include enhancements to lines and strokes and the perception of space. The depiction of real-world, and reportage drawings are topics as well. And will give you insights and skills to sketch and implement the 10 rules for sketching for your own problems. your very own objects and interactivity plays a central role in harnessing the users‘ creativity.
Campus or classrooom lessons
Sketching as a research tool is a course at different Swiss Universities for researchers at PhD level.
Classroom instruction at the University of Applied Studies level is offered as part of the Multimedia Production Bachelors Degree at the University of Applied Sciences in the Grisons and at the Berne University of Applied Sciences.
Sketch&Draw is a method of learning to sketch for adults and is less suitable for children and young people under the age of twelve.
Sketchcity studyweeks
Since 2016 the sketch city study week take place every spring term in Holland
More than 100 students from three Universities gather together to ideate and sketch ideas for the challenges of the future liveable city.
Rotterdam University | Urban Planners and Water Manager
University of Applied Sciences in the Grisons | Multimedia Producers
Bern University of Applied Sciences | Multimedia Producers
Instructor
Tanja Hess is an artist and Professor for visualisation at the University of Applied Sciences in the Grisons and at Berne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. She also runs courses for researchers about storyboarding for scientists at Zurich University and ETH Zurich.
Visit her blog about sketching
Sketcher&Author
Anna Luzia is an Architect Master’s student at ETH Zurich.
She contributes as a sketcher in the field of architecture.
Using sketching in the field of architecture as a drafting tool is key. The rapid development of ideas needs a design thinking approach.
She also does peer reviews.
Education is in our blood
20 years of experience in teaching sketching and drawing. 10 years experience with sketching as a research tool at Universities.
Background of art & design, as well as an art education degree by Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
Testimonials
Some native comments
Universities and their students are the main target group of this method to learn to sketch.
Because, since ever sketching has been a research tool.
Rabab A.
I improved to draw at the UZH Storyboard for Scientists course for Ph.D. students regarding to tell my story as a scientists visually.
Celine Marie
Sketching feels like a second mother tongue to me. It empowers me to speak the language of botany.
Marco Garbelli
As a PhD. candidate and researcher I learned to think visually at the Sketch&Draw course at Zurich University.
Christian Frank
Als Doktorand in der Neurowissenschaft ist die Zeichnung nun mein neues Denkinstrument. Es hilft Komplexes zu durchdenken.
Get in touch with us
If you have questions or need advice, please feel free to get in contact.
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Sketch&Draw courses on all levels
Sketching for Multimedia Producers | Sketchcity | Reportage Drawing
Sketching for Multimedia Producers | Sketchcity | Reportage Drawing
Sketchcity | Reportage Drawing
Teaching| Developing the prototype of Sketch&Draw
Ideasketching for Scientists | Scientific Poster Design
Ideasketching for Scientists | Scientific Poster Design | Storyboarding for Scientists
Ideasketching for Scientists | Scientific Poster Design
Storyboarding for Scientists | Ideasketching for Scientists | Scientific Poster Design
European research project | Erasmusplus
Ideasketching for Scientists | Scientific Poster Design
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Certificate
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