An integral skill in your landscape designer toolkit, sketching helps you visualize and communicate your ideas effectively.
During this informative, hands-on class designed for the novice landscape designer, join landscape architect Jessica Wolff as she mentors you in enhancing your sketching ability and improving your graphic communications skills. Using a “what do you see around you?” approach, sketch views of natural elements like trees, shrubs, and native plants, and engage in drawing exercises focusing on line, tone, and color. Practice basic drawing techniques that can translate to drafting, explore how to draw different types of line with different tools, and cultivate your skill with those tools. Working in plain view, perspective, and in section details, learn how to properly share your vision in two dimensions.
Certificate Information
This course is a required core component of our Landscape Design Certificate.
Course Schedule
Thursdays, August 7–September 4, 2025
6:00–8:00 pm
Location
Online, live-streamed
Students will have access to the course materials for six months after the end of the class.
Instructor
Jessica Wolff
Jessica Wolff is registered Landscape Architect (PLA) based in the southeastern Pennsylvania region. Having worked at award-winning landscape architecture and planning firms, she has experience designing at various scales and with a variety of landscape architectural and planning project work types ranging from small site design to large scale master planning, urban streetscapes, residential properties, institutional and campus plans, green roofs, stormwater management design, planting design, public art installation design, and site features detailing, in addition to community-building efforts such as leading design charrettes.
In addition to her practice work, Jessica has been a design studio instructor for 11 years. She has taught courses in design, graphics and interdisciplinary studios at The Boston Architectural College, Thomas Jefferson University and Northeastern University. She has won awards for her teaching and has published her thesis work at The Harvard Graduate School of Design.
