The Open Sketchbook

If you’ve studied perspective before but still find your drawings flattening out, breaking down, or feeling uncertain as soon as things get complex, this course is designed to help.

Join me for a five-week, live online course focused on understanding linear perspective as a framework for thinking about space, not a checklist of formulas to memorize. The goal is to help you diagnose spatial problems, make clearer structural decisions, and use perspective with confidence across a range of subjects.

We’ll begin with the practical origin of perspective, the Albertian veil concept, looking at it both in its Renaissance context and as a contemporary way of understanding the relationship between the eye, the picture plane, and the world. From there, we’ll examine how various Renaissance perspective methods (multi-view drawings, geometric constructions, and other illusionistic strategies) still inform how artists organize the visual challenge of depth in their work today.

Rather than treating one, two, and three-point perspective as isolated exercises, we’ll study how these approaches can function together within a larger spatial framework. Emphasis is placed on geometric structure, clarity, and intentional decision-making, understanding when to use a technique as well as why it works, and how you can begin to adapt these concepts to your own practice.

This course is ideal for artists who want to move beyond “knowing the rules” and toward actually thinking in perspective- whether working from observation, reference, or imagination.