The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts And Techniques From The Urban Sketching Handbooks--Architecture And Cityscapes, ... People And Motion, Working With Color

The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts And Techniques From The Urban Sketching Handbooks--Architecture And Cityscapes, ... People And Motion, Working With Color

Draw the exciting elements of your world with confidence using the tips, techniques, and ideas in The Complete Urban Sketching Companion. Packed with information and visual inspiration on sketching architecture, cityscapes, people, and motion, plus lessons on perspective and adding color, this collection will have you filling sketchbook after sketchbook with compelling artwork. The popularity of the?rban sketching movement has grown worldwide, and it?s easy to see why.Sketching on the go is exciting, rewarding, and creatively satisfying. With so many choices of what to sketch and how to sketch it, you need acompanion to offervaluable insights,enlightening tips, and tons ofideas and inspiration.The Complete Urban Sketching Companion is that helpful guide to take along on your next overseas adventure, or to your favorite caf?around the corner. This book includeskey drawing techniques and strategies from four books in the Urban Sketching Handbook series:Understanding Perspective,Working with Color,Architecture and Cityscapes, andPeople and Motion.?earn how to drawunique buildings,urban landscapes, andlively street scenes, incorporating interesting elements andstriking color and lighting. Get tips on sketching withaccurate perspective with easy methods and great examples to guide you along. Discover ways tocapture motion, whether it?s a group of dancers or commuters on the move. Becomeconfident in adding color to artwork by learning about different mediums andcolor mixing techniques. InThe Complete Urban Sketching Companion you?ll also find:Simple tools and materials to get startedWays to build a well-composed sceneTechniques for drawing urban environments to scaleHow to construct a sketch in layersTips for rendering different types of perspectiveStrategies for creating dramatic shadowsHow to include a range of color values to create depthIdeas for interpreting movement and gestureMethods for drawing individuals and crowds Get started on your urban sketching adventures today, and start capturing life.About the AuthorShari Blaukopf is a Montreal-based workshop instructor, watercolor painter and sketch blogger who loves to travel and share her love of sketching. She?s the author of?he Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color, and you can find her many online sketching courses at learn.shariblaukopf.com. She?s been part of the Urban Sketchers community since 2012 and has given many watercolor workshops both on her own and internationally through the Urban Sketchers Workshop Program. Her watercolors are in corporate, government and private collections in North America and abroad, and she?s a signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. You can follow her sketches on her blog at or on Instagram @sharisketcher.Stephanie Bower?orked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design.?he?aught the how-to's of architectural location sketching for over twenty-five years?n New York City at Parsons and in Seattle at the University of Washington?nd Cornish College of the Arts. She has two online sketching classes at?luprint.com, and she travels and teaches perspective and watercolor workshops internationally, including at six Urban Sketchers symposiums. People around the world follow her sketches online via Instagram @stephanieabower and Facebook, and she is an international blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. Stephanie is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She is the author of?he Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective?Quarry Books, 2016) , The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips?Quarry Books, 2019), and co-author?f?he Urban Sketching Art Pack?Quarry Books, 2017).Gabriel Campanario is a staff artist at The Seattle Times and the founder of Urban Sketchers (urbansketchers.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated t