Albert Kiefer (1960). I’ve always been a sketching and drawing enthusiast. I grew up with superheroes in comic books, and after high school, I studied art at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht to become an art teacher. It was the late 80s when I graduated, and computer graphics was just starting to take off. I was instantly hooked on the medium. I’ve been making computer-based pictures ever since.

Over the years, I’ve become a ruthless perfectionist, so I was very hesitant to pick up sketching again after thirty years. In the summer of 2016, I decided to give it another shot. I bought some random materials (alcohol based color markers and black fineliners and a sketchbook). To make myself more disciplined, I decided to make at least one sketch every day. I didn’t really have a specific subject in mind, but slowly, my love for architecture started to shine through in my work.

Currently I have a best selling course on Domestika with more than 85,000 students that have participated and my book “Housesketching” has found an international audience. Currently published in English, French, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese and Dutch.

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Architecture: Express yourself with color markers

Workshop language: English German

Key skills:

Key skills to learn:

• ‘Fearless’ sketching (possibly without pre-sketching in pencil)
• Relations between color and value to add depth
• Quick coloring for fast and expressive sketches

Suggested material:

• Sets of color markers
• At least 3-4 grey value markers to create sketches with depth and punch
• A sketching block A5 (preferable)
• Black fineliner (I use Faber Castell PITT Artist fineliners size 0.1 and 0.3)
• A white acrylic pen (I use a UNI Posca 0.7mm bullet tip white pen)
• A bleed sheet (to put between separate pages to prevent bleed through from the markers)