Learn Aaron Limonick’s accessible illustration workflow and strengthen your fundamentals fast. Build art direction, organize refs, and create detailed production sketches with the skills you need to sketch anything with confidence.
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Master traditional illustration and entertainment design in no time. In 'Sketching Anything,' Aaron Limonick (Naughty Dog) breaks down his design process in an accessible way for both beginners and pros. You'll learn to organize reference material, establish a strong sense of art direction, and create detailed production sketches of your very own. Don't waste time struggling with the basics of drawing and rendering - with these skills, you'll truly be able to sketch anything.
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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.
Lesson 1
Explore several sketching techniques and learn why each can solve a separate design problem. Each sketching style has a unique, yet simple process. You'll also learn the importance of organizing reference material, along with understanding its uses.
Lesson 2
To sketch a natural environment, you must first see it as a shape, then as form, and finally as texture. By studying these elements, you will learn to combine them into a useful production sketch. Aaron will demonstrate his technique to quickly render any organic subject matter with ease.
Lesson 3
Sketching hard-surface objects is much simpler than you might have imagined. You'll learn solid perspective skills to set up your scene, and the discipline to stick to these guidelines. Aaron will demo a complex environment using the same foundations covered in the lesson.
Lesson 4
Using the skills you've studied in the previous lessons, you'll learn to create a complex environment sketch. Aaron's final demonstration will combine natural elements, and even characters to add scale and life to the scene. Even considering the complexity of the final image, the process remains as simple as ever.
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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Here's a full list of all the videos in this course.
Explore several sketching techniques and learn why each can solve a separate design problem. Each sketching style has a unique, yet simple process. You'll also learn the importance of organizing reference material, along with understanding its uses.
To sketch a natural environment, you must first see it as a shape, then as form, and finally as texture. By studying these elements, you will learn to combine them into a useful production sketch. Aaron will demonstrate his technique to quickly render any organic subject matter with ease.
Sketching hard-surface objects is much simpler than you might have imagined. You'll learn solid perspective skills to set up your scene, and the discipline to stick to these guidelines. Aaron will demo a complex environment using the same foundations covered in the lesson.
Using the skills you've studied in the previous lessons, you'll learn to create a complex environment sketch. Aaron's final demonstration will combine natural elements, and even characters to add scale and life to the scene. Even considering the complexity of the final image, the process remains as simple as ever.
Check out some of the amazing work Sketching Anything students have created by doing their homework.
