Back in 2021, I took Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching course. Peter learned everything he knows with Norman Schureman, known as the "father" of Dynamic Sketching.

For context, I don't consider myself a good enough line-drawing person. It's just a lack of practicing tied up with some old bad behaviors. I somewhat know a thing or two about painting, but drawing is a whole different level of craftsmanship. Drawing/sketching requires a completely different set of muscle memories to be used.

The classes are intense. While the schedule says each class is 3 hours long, we would usually stay in class for 5 hours, with Peter talking and explaining everything, without even stop to drink water. I don't know how he can do that, but you can definitely see how he is passionate about drawing. I'm not complaining about the extra 2 hours though, it was actually super inspiring, and in fact, I'm thinking about applying to his class again, whenever a new one opens.

So, how is the course anyways?

This course is designed for those wanting to learn the fundamental skills in sketching. The growth areas are in sketching from observation, using sketching to communicate, building a visual library, strengthening confidence in one process, and developing the foundations of being able to draw from the imagination.
Via Peter Han's website.

It's a 8-week long course, by the way, and while is not mandatory, using traditional art materials are super recommended. I only used digital medium during the last week of the course. I was travelling, so it was much easier for to bring just my iPad, instead of papers and inks and pens.

Every week the subject changes between organic forms and "hard surfaces".

Below are my submission from every week (I couldn't find my week 1 scans page and week 8 was free of assignments):

Week 02

The second week was all about training our lines. By going from organic forms to planal forms the goal was to exercise the different types of lines we would use throughout the 7-weeks of exercises.

Week 03

On week 3 we continued our journey through organic forms, introducing different forms of rendering: hatching and textures.

We also started studying bugs, visually depicting them as basic forms first to lay down a good blueprint. This one was fun!

Week 04

On week 4, the subject matter was shifted towards hard surfaces, and on our class we did car studies.

Week 05

Week 5 we were back to organic forms, this time sketching animals of our choice. I remember this week as it was yesterday, I started really strong, but ended up falling down behind the schedule and whatnot, as you can see below.

Week 06

Back to hard surfaces, this time old airplanes. So many airplanes I've never heard about it before.

Week 07

Finally the last assignment of the class. The one I went full digital. The goal was to sketch various character's costumes from reference. I ended up sketching just one, but I truly enjoyed the end result.

This week we also had to prepare a self-assessment of our experience during the class, like a retrospective.

Wrapping up

Even though this class is tough—especially for people like me who mainly draw digitally—it was an amazing experience. Just by listening and watching Peter to explain things was priceless.

The amount of commitment you need is really high, don't go to this class thinking it will be easy, because it's not, but it's definitely a fun and enriching experience.