Real-World Sketching Workshop with Mike Rohde, coming Saturday, April 26, 2025!
Join me for a real-world sketching workshop for anyone who wants to start a sketching practice. I'll provide professional guidance, feedback, printable templates, and a recorded replay.
Workshop Details
On Saturday, April 26th, I’ll help you build your sketching practice.
We’ll spend three hours together working on a real-world project. You’ll create thumbnail sketches for ideation, select a winning idea, and expand it to a full-page sketch to complete your project. I’ll offer feedback on several student sketches.
Here’s a sample video showing how I approach thumbnail sketches:
I’ve used sketches in my design practice for over 40 years and have seen how valuable sketches are for freeing my mind to explore ideas. I’m excited to share my experience with you in this workshop to accelerate your own practice.
What is the workshop?
The three-hour live workshop includes my professional guidance on sketching as a practice as we work on a real-world project, group feedback, downloadable/printable templates for your practice, and a recorded replay so you can revisit the session as you develop your sketching skills.
Who is the workshop for?
Complete beginners who want to jumpstart their sketching process in an immersive, hands-on workshop.
Intermediate sketchers who want to learn my process of sketching ideas and my best practices.
Anyone who wants to add sketching as a power tool for their thinking and ideation practice to reduce their dependency on software for idea generation.
What you’ll learn:
How to explore ideas by creating multiple quick thumbnail sketches.
How to migrate ideas from loose thumbnails to larger final sketches.
How to best share your sketches with clients and colleagues.
Add a useful skill to your tool belt for epxressing your ideas!
Here’s what we’ll cover:
My processes for generating sketches: how I think about sketching, how I make it happen, and how to explore multiple ideas in a loose, fun way.
Details on the tools I use and why I chose them.
You’ll to make thumbnail sketches along with me on a provided project.
We’ll learn to migrate thumbnail sketches to larger, more detailed sketches.
How I use templates for sketching to save time and build consistency.
Practical tips and processes from my experience to improve your sketches.
How to organize sketches and notes for sharing with others.
Why I’m excited to share my sketching processes
Everyone can sketch ideas. By sharing my mindset, approach, and process with you, I can jump-start your skills and processes to help make sketching an integral part of your unique approach to idea generation.
Sign up for the workshop today!
Paid Lab Members Discount
Paid Lab Members get a $20 off discount for this workshop, and I have emailed you those details or you can visit Lab Member Resources for that special code.
— Mike
Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. The goal is to guide you in integrating sketchnoting into your everyday life. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.
Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start and keep sketchnoting.
He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Army Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.
Mike offers recorded, live, and in-person workshops to help accelerate your sketchnoting practice and coaching for personalized, 1:1 sketchnoting guidance.
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