• Interior Designers who want to present ideas clearly and professionally through hand sketching.

• Design Students looking to strengthen their portfolios and master perspective drawing.

• Creative Professionals seeking to add a timeless, artistic skill to their design workflow.

This course is designed for interior design professionals and students who wish to deepen their creative practice through the art of hand sketching. Whether you are refining your professional craft or discovering the joy of drawing for the first time, this course offers a structured yet inspiring environment to help you master interior sketching with clarity, purpose, and artistry.

Since December 2014, I’ve been teaching interior sketching (both online and in-person). I created this course because I truly believe that hand sketching belongs at the heart of interior design practice.

Sketching is not just about technique — it’s a way of thinking. When we draw, we slow down enough to truly observe, analyze, and generate ideas. Hand drawing engages both sides of the brain, stimulating creativity and deeper understanding.

Unlike digital CAD renderings or polished 3D visualizations, a sketch leaves room for imagination. Its suggestive, unfinished quality invites the viewer, whether a client, teacher, or collaborator, to engage emotionally and mentally.

In my experience as an interior designer, when clients see a perfect 3D render, their imagination often stops there; they believe the final result must look exactly like that image. But when they see a hand sketch... expressive, intuitive, and alive — it awakens their imagination. They begin to feel the atmosphere, not just see the space.

Hand sketching is also invaluable in the earliest stages of a design project. When meeting a client, a quick, spontaneous sketch can become the bridge between conversation and concept. As ideas emerge, you can visualize them immediately on paper, and in that moment, your client becomes a co-creator of the design. This shared process builds trust, engagement, and excitement.

Over the years of teaching, I’ve met hundreds of interior designers who told me that once they learned to draw, to express their ideas freely on paper, something inside them changed. Many described feeling like real designers for the first time. Before, they relied only on software and felt something missing, a kind of professional gap, an inner hesitation. But after learning sketching, they spoke differently with their clients, with more confidence and pride. They said they finally felt like artists, the kind of professionals their clients expected them to be.

And that’s the power of sketching. It doesn’t just transform your drawings — it transforms how you see yourself as a designer.

This course was born from that belief: to bring sketching back into interior design, where it belongs, as a timeless tool for creativity, communication, and genuine human connection.

“Sketching is a foundational skill for interior designers and architects — it allows us to translate ideas from imagination to paper with immediacy and clarity, bridging the gap between concept and reality.”
— Olga Sorokina

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Minimum Starter Kit

If you’re just getting started, here’s the minimum set of tools you’ll need to fully participate in the course:

• 1 pencil (any standard drawing pencil)

• Regular ruler

• Regular paper A4 or Letter size

• An eraser

• 1 black liner or gel pen (waterproof fineliner or black ink pen)

• 7 markers total:

  • 5 coloured markers: beige or light brown, dark brown, olive, deep red, deep blue

  • 2 grey markers for shadows and depth

This simple set is enough to complete all core exercises in the course and start developing your sketching confidence.

Please see the Maximum Kit with the examples below.

Maximum Starter Kit

To get the most out of this program and achieve high-quality sketching results, please prepare the following materials.
I’ve included examples and links (Amazon) for your convenience.

1. Markers & Paper

Use alcohol-based markers such as Copic, Molotow, Winsor & Newton ProMarker, Zig, Chartpak, Stylefile, or TOUCH.
Any professional marker brand will work well for this course.

For paper, ideally choose marker paper (A4 or Letter size, minimum 70 g/m²). This lightweight paper helps preserve pigment and makes blending smoother.

Example: Canson Marker Pad.

Tip: Regular office paper can also be used for practice sketches.

2. Grey Markers

Ideally, prepare three shades of grey:

• Light — e.g. #2 (Example: Warm Grey #2, Chartpak)

  Note: Please keep in mind that Chartpak markers have very strong solvent smell, avoid them if you are sensitive. Copic markers, for instance, don't have strong smell.

• Medium — e.g. #4 (Example: Copic Warm Grey #4)

• Dark — e.g. #6 (Example: Copic Neutral Grey #6)

Recommended sets:

You can buy grey markers in sets:

• Copic Sketch Alcohol Marker 5 Colors + Multiliner SP

• Winsor & Newton ProMarker Set, 6 Neutral Tones

3. Coloured Markers

At minimum, have these five essential colours ready:

• Beige / Sand / Light Brown (e.g. Potato Brown, TOUCH)

• Dark Brown / Chocolate

• Olive Green

• Deep Red

• Deep Blue

Recommended set: Copic Marker 12-Piece Set — Architecture Colours.

4. Highlighting Tools

• White pastel pencil (e.g. Caran d’Ache)

• White ink gel pen (e.g. Sakura Gelly Roll)

5. Linework Tools

• Black liner or waterproof fineliner (Examples: Copic Multiliner, Uni Liner)

• Pencil (Example: Palomino Blackwing)

• Eraser and straight ruler

6. Architect’s Scale Ruler (Optional)

For those who prefer precise technical accuracy, an architect’s scale ruler can be helpful for drawing to scale.
If you don’t have one, a regular ruler will work perfectly fine for all exercises.
Example: Architect’s Scale Ruler (Inches).

Tip: You don’t need to buy everything at once — start with what you already have and gradually expand your toolkit as you move through the lessons.

Through this comprehensive step-by-step program, complete with follow-along video tutorials, you will build a strong foundation in Interior Sketching with Markers and Perspective Drawing for Interior Design — all in just five weeks of self-paced learning (if you accomplish one core lesson per week).

By the end of the course, you will:

• Confidently sketch interior spaces using one- and two-point perspective.

• Draw furniture and objects to scale with accuracy and proportion.

• Understand and apply the principles of composition in interior sketching.

• Master light, shading, and tonal values to create depth and realism.

• Learn the fundamentals of coloring interiors with markers.

• Develop strong marker techniques — from smooth blending to controlled layering.

• Render a variety of interior materials and textures.

• Gain insight into the professional workflow of a sketch artist.

• Learn practical strategies for finding clients and working on commissioned projects.

This course will not only strengthen your drawing skills — it will also enhance your confidence as a designer and open doors to new professional opportunities.

“This new skill can open the door to an entirely new career — becoming an interior sketch artist who creates commissioned drawings for clients around the world.”
— Olga Sorokina

Upon finishing the course, you’ll receive a personalized Certificate of Completion, a recognition of your new skills in interior sketching. Many of my students proudly add it to their design portfolios, LinkedIn profiles, and university applications as proof of professional development.