Follow-along as Ian guides you from blank page to simple lines, to the basic shapes that achieve Ian’s trademark ‘distortion’ effect. Then you’ll move on to adding paint and filling in all of the finer detail. Everything is clearly and concisely explained and broken down into micro-steps so that you develop the skills and confidence to produce artwork that oozes personality, without leaving your home.

Before you start this complex composition, Ian shows you exactly how to pick your starting point and where to place your pens on the page to mark out the space. You will also use them as a reference point to create a wonderful sense of perspective.

You will start out with really simple, basic shapes to create the structure, then you will use fine line pens to go into the detail before moving into a very specific colour journey.

Ian walks you through the exact process of getting the size of the first building just right before moving onto sketching. You’ll learn how to add in the medium size detail, such as the doors and windows, the church, the cobbles and even the drinking fountain. Then you’ll be taken on quite a specific colour journey using yellows and oranges with a little blue to create some depth and shadows. Finally, it’s the detail; the cracks, the stones, the tiles and the interesting textures.

Then, you’ll move onto the colour using an exact colour match while using the space on your page to be active and positive. You’ll discover how to splash colour onto your image to really activate the page, and use lighter brush pens to make things a lot more 3 dimensional – referencing walls, hills and going around the brick work.

Finally, we will go in deeper and deeper, outlining and hatching to bring out all of the stone work and finer details.