“I developed my School of Sketching to share the secrets of hand rendering and technical drawing so interior designers, architects, and other creatives can learn how to sketch and express themselves through the art of hand rendering. Professional sketching makes the best presentation of your project with soal and beauty in it.”
Meet Olga Sorokina
artist who teaches
MISSION:
To bring hand sketching back into interior design and architecture.
VISION:
Interior designers and architects have mastered hand sketching and fulfilling their potential by creating an even better, more beautiful, sustainable, and aesthetic environment for people to live in.
BACKGROUND:
Olga is a founder of the Online School of Sketching Ltd, with a range of online courses on interior and fashion sketching.
Her graduates live all across the globe: USA, Canada, Europe, Russia, South Africa, UK, UAE, India, China, Japan, etc.
They have achieved their drawing goals. For some, it is to make an excellent client presentation with beautiful hand drawings, for others to become confident in sketching and quickly reflect their ideas. A lot of id students take her courses to draw for their interior diploma projects. Some of Olga's students become professional sketch artists and make a living out of it. Some graduates even start teaching interior sketching in their communities.
Olga holds a MA (Master of Arts degree) in Interior Design. Olga studied interior design at the Saint-Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.
Currently, Olga lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her husband and son.
Olga is the author of the book "The SKETCH. Interior Design Drawing".
It is available on Amazon and is included in the interior design program of Denver University, USA.
She has been teaching interior sketching and perspective drawing both in-person and online since December 2014.
There are more than 21K+ people enrolled in Olga’s online courses and free perspective drawing challenge.
Olga runs a blog on interior drawing and creativity, which is read by 17K+ creatives per month.
She speaks at international summits and online events on interior design/architecture/creativity topics. Among her speaking gigs are:
ArchiMentors Summit, Oct 2020
Sketchbook Revival, April 2020
Sketching Retreat, November 2022
Sketching Retreat, October 2023
DESIGN AWARDs AND COLLABORATIONS:
Here are some of Olga’s international prizes for both interior design and architecture projects:
«IDEA! restaurant», best restaurant project, 2008 (winner)
Russian Design, bar project, 2009 (shortlist, exhibition in Moscow)
"It's Liquid," "Architecture" nomination, International Ecology Centre project, 2014 (winner)
"Archi Graphic Art" Contest by S. Tchoban, 2017 LINK (shortlist)
Olga’s YouTube was awarded "Essential Design Voice" by @morpholio
Collaborated as a sketch artist with:
Ralph Lauren Home,
Sochi Olympics,
Studio Seilern Architects, London,
Yves Delorme, Paris
Denizen (#1 lifestyle magazine in New Zealand),
Rikke Gudnitz, royal fashion designer, Copenhagen
Testimonials
here are what people enrolled in my online courses think
Olga's lessons were possibly the best part of the week! As a designer I learned how to sketch at school but unfortunately never really developed the skill. So Olga's course was a great way to brush up on the principles of perspective and along the way I also picked up a whole suitcase of tricks on how to make my sketches look really professional! Olga's tutorials are fun, fast-moving, extremely well organised and after each lesson I felt like I made a whole lot of progress!
- Nadezhda Alexander, interior designer, London, Instagram: @TheSiberian
Some time ago I stumbled upon Olga’s profile on Instagram. I was instantly taken by her ability to make design ideas come to life with her vivid and detailed sketches. Unfortunately I don’t speak Russian, so when her sketch course came in English I didn’t hesitate to sign up for it. Olga is a splendid educator, and I am so pleased with the results I get.
The lessons are well structured, easy to follow, and you will quickly get nice results. She really loves sketching, and her passion goes into her teaching so you can’t help to get smitten by her enthusiasm.
I hope she will develop more of her courses in English, so I can continue evolving my sketching skills. If you would like to develop or improve your sketching skills I can only say, that by Olga’s help you can’t avoid improving your sketching.
- Betina Mølvang, interior designer, Copenhagen, Instagram: @betinamaj
I made BASE and PRO courses with Olga and I want to give her all the best compliments! The content is amazing and very good work she did with her courses!
- Fabrizio Govoni, interior designer, Estonia, Mail: g.fabrizio971@gmail.com
Lessons from the course are so interesting! Perspective drawing became easy for me after this course! I found Olga on YouTube and was soooo happy to learn from her! Her course is excellent!
- Jameela Bintook, sketcher, Mail: jameela9339@gmail.com
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