The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts and Techniques from The Urban Sketching Handbooks–Architecture and Cityscapes, … with Color (Urban Sketching Handbooks, 10)

Product Description

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 
urban 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 a
companion to offer
valuable insights,
enlightening tips, and tons of
ideas and inspiration.
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion is that helpful guide to take along on your next overseas adventure, or to your favorite café around the corner.

This book includes
key drawing techniques and strategies from four books in the Urban Sketching Handbook series:
Understanding Perspective,
Working with Color,
Architecture and Cityscapes, and
People and Motion. Learn how to draw
unique buildings,
urban landscapes, and
lively street scenes, incorporating interesting elements and
striking color and lighting. Get tips on sketching with
accurate perspective with easy methods and great examples to guide you along. Discover ways to
capture motion, whether it’s a group of dancers or commuters on the move. Become
confident in adding color to artwork by learning about different mediums and
color mixing techniques.

In
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion you’ll also find:

Simple tools and materials to get started
Ways to build a well-composed scene
Techniques for drawing urban environments to scale
How to construct a sketch in layers
Tips for rendering different types of perspective
Strategies for creating dramatic shadows
How to include a range of color values to create depth
Ideas for interpreting movement and gesture
Methods for drawing individuals and crowds
Get started on your urban sketching adventures today, and start capturing life.

About the Author

Shari 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 The 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 worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. She taught the how-to’s of architectural location sketching for over twenty-five years in New York City at Parsons and in Seattle at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She has two online sketching classes at Craftsy.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 The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective (Quarry Books, 2016) , The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips (Quarry Books, 2019), and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (Quarry Books, 2017) and The Complete Urban Sketching Companion (Quarry Books, 2020).

Gabriel Campanario is a staff artist at The Seattle Times and the founder of Urban Sketcher