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Ink Sketching: Fundamentals

Aaron Limonick

Learn traditional ink sketching with Aaron Limonick as you practice hatching, stippling, values, and mixed media through focused exercises. Build confident compositions, stronger perspective, and a versatile ink-based drawing style.

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Discover the foundations of traditional ink sketching with concept artist Aaron Limonick. You’ll explore core techniques like hatching, stippling, layered values, ink-and-water gradients, and mixed-media combinations through a series of small, practical drawing exercises that quickly build skill and intuition. Along the way, Aaron teaches you how to analyze value, use perspective purposefully, and bring clarity to your compositions. By the end you’ll have several finished sketches, as well as the confidence to use a range of styles and ink-based tools. You’ll also get a simple materials guide covering the the pens, papers, and tools Aaron recommends.

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A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.

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    Lesson 2

    Watercolor Ink

    Learn to harness the watercolor brush pen by exploring various wet media techniques. During this lesson you’ll create two full sketches in two different styles.

    • 1h 54m
    • 14 Videos
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    Lesson 3

    Stippling

    In this lesson, you’ll utilize the preciseness of stippling to create beauty through tiny repetition.

    • 46 minutes
    • 6 Videos
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    Lesson 4

    Hatching

    Learn to create beautiful sketches using the graphic style of hatching lines.

    • 1h 3m
    • 8 Videos
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    Lesson 5

    Thumbnail Sketching

    Turn complex reference imagery into large, simple shapes that create powerful thumbnails.

    • 1h 15m
    • 12 Videos
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    Lesson 6

    Simple Values

    Learn to simplify values in order to create even more compelling thumbnail sketches.

    • 48 minutes
    • 6 Videos
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    Lesson 7

    Simple Perspective

    This lesson will cover all the basics of perspective, in order to create ink sketches within simple architectural spaces.

    • 1h 1m
    • 10 Videos
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    Lesson 8

    Fully Composed Pages

    Bring together everything you’ve learned by creating a page full of sketches in a variety of techniques.

    • 2h 6m
    • 18 Videos

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Aaron Limonick

Aaron Limonick is a concept artist and illustrator with more than two decades of experience in the film and game industries. He has created designs for studios including Naughty Dog, HBO, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Blur, and he now serves as a World Art Director at Activision Blizzard. Alongside his production work, Aaron is known for his expressive traditional sketching practice, using pens, markers, and brush tools to explore ideas with clarity, confidence, and bold graphic style.

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