What is the Urban Sketchers Symposium? I am going to assume you know of the official Urban Sketchers non-profit organisation. Each year they hold a symposium in a different city around the world. USK chapters from any city can put a proposal forward to the Urban Sketchers Executive Board to hold the symposium in their …
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Lately – ok for a little while now – I have just been obsessed with certain urban sketchers. And guess what, ok you probably guessed from the title of this post – but they are ALL Spanish… Is there just a certain style that comes with being Spanish? I don’t know. but I love it. …
Travel sketching allows you to capture destinations and memories with paper and pencil. With travel sketching, the way you see the world around you changes. You become more appreciative of the places you’ve visited and will remember them more vividly even if you have already left. Besides becoming more appreciative, Darren Fisher shared that drawing …
It’s an issue that comes up time and again. How to find time for urban sketching (which I have a specific post on here) and how to get quicker at sketching. Many people don’t have 2-3 hours on a regular basis to commit to urban sketching. And if they do, they want to achieve more …
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I just finished the 4th and final demo from Ian Fennelly’s Urban Sketching for Beginners course. As well as talking about some of the things within this sketch, I’d also like to think about the bigger picture and what I have personally learnt from this course. Here are the best 5 things I learnt from …
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In this post we shall take a look at sketching birds in ink and watercolour in a variety of styles, using different processes. I also want to touch on a little composition and perspective too. I took my own reference photos (included below) that you can use to practice with. These are the processes of …
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Have you been wondering what the best way to learn urban sketching is? There are so many courses and workshops, free and paid, it can be super confusing to know where to start. Today I want to take a look at one of the options out there and share with you how I found Ian …
A lot of blog posts and videos focus on how to get started with urban sketching and I myself have a video on that very subject matter, which you can find here. However, not that many resources cover how you can improve your urban sketching. In this post, I wanted to share some creative exercises …
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Do you sit down to sketch or paint sometimes and you just don’t know what to do or where to start? I do. I have some time and I want to practice but then all inspiration disappears and I’m left twiddling my thumbs wasting precious painting time on trying to decide what to do. That’s …
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A Lightbox is something I have considered purchasing in the past. Not really for anything directly to do with urban sketching of course but for some other illustration work I think it could have made life easier. Leaning on a window doing my best to trace an initial sketch is not ideal. In the last …
