I feel like I have started to see markers gain increasing popularity among urban sketchers on platforms such as Instagram. Markers tend to be used predominantly by animators, comic book and manga artists, product designers, fashion designers and many other professions. However, they have become far more widely used in recent years for things such …
“I believe one’s choice of brush to be a very personal thing.” – Me Is it bad to quote myself?? Oh well. I have. Let’s get to the first issue. You absolutely need specific brushes for watercolour painting, you cannot use any old brush lying around. Watercolour brushes are designed to work with watercolour paint …
There is a huge selection of art supplies on the market, and increasingly, supplies that are designed specifically for urban sketching. It can be quite overwhelming to figure out which supplies are essential, or will make your life easier, especially when they are a little unexpected. Below are my top 5 favourite urban sketching tools, …
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Many urban sketchers choose to sketch with a fountain pen, rather than a fineliner, such as a Micron or UniPin. I always wondered why this was when I started out. I thought it was a bit eccentric, to be honest. Surely it couldn’t be easy to draw with a fountain pen? Why Sketch With a …
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I love Stillman & Birn sketchbooks but there are a lot of options available and sometimes it’s tricky to figure out the differences between each of them and which will be best for your medium or style of drawing. Each series of sketchbooks are suitable for urban sketching, they just have slightly different nuances. There …
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What should you have in your urban sketching kit? I thought about how my urban sketching kit had evolved from when I first started to now, in 2023. I also thought about how my urban sketching kit differs if I’m staying near home with only sketching things in my backpack versus travelling overseas when I …
I have been asked what the best sketchbook for urban sketching is a number of times. There is never one answer to a question which starts with “what is the best….?” The answer always depends on the context. Annoying, I know. There are a number of factors to take into consideration when choosing a sketchbook …
