Say hello to Aaron Elswick! Workshop 1: Fake It Till You Make It: Sketchin’ Like You Don’t Care

Aaron is a Chicago-based Urban Landscape Architectural Designer and Urban Sketcher. A Kentucky native, his passion and curiosity lies at the intersection of science, art and design. His favorite places to visit and draw are all full of life and color, and range from dense and urban to vast and natural environments. To better design such types of places in his professional career, he seeks them out in his free time to explore their beauty via his sketchbook. With his approach, the drawing process is utilized to gain understanding, insight, and at times, inspiration.

Drawing is the tool and the language Aaron uses in his career to communicate, explore ideas, and to design cities of the future. Urban Sketching is how he practices. He has added mediums to his urban sketching throughout the years, but his objective has remained the same – to capture what he sees as fast and legibly loose as possible.

Becoming a member of USk Chicago has had a tremendous impact on Aaron’s life, both personally and professionally. The art of urban sketching can only be described as beautiful, and he’s looking forward to sharing it with everyone who attends his workshop.