With nothing more than a piece of paper and a pencil, you are equipped to start drawing your city or village, the people who live there, and the things that are happening in it.
The beauty of sketching is that, almost by definition, a sketch can be completed as simply and quickly as you like. It can involve making a fifteen-minute sketch of the view from your window or whipping out a collapsible sketching stool and spending an hour or two capturing the way the light hits that beautiful old church. In either case, sketching stops the clock and lets your mind turn off all the noise.
Although many creative professionals use field sketching in their work, urban sketching is purely for fun-a chance to step away from the computer and just draw for the sheer joy of it, without deadlines or objectives. It has the power to turn a moment of boredom into a creative pastime. In a sense, urban sketching can be more about the experience than the result. If you make urban sketching part of your routine and continue with it in your travels, you not only end up with a work of art in your hands, you create a de facto journal of your life from the mundane fellow bus commuters, the view from your office window to the exciting a day at a ballgame or a once-in a-lifetime overseas trip.
The sketches bring back memories in a way photos don't, evoking the sounds, smells, and recollections of the places in which you created them. You'll notice, too, that your skills will be sharper, and you'll gain a new appreciation for your surroundings. Drawing something forces you to look at it, really look at it. When sketching far from home, you are immersed in the local culture, your sketchbook sparking interactions when it draws curiosity. Although sketching is a solitary activity, it becomes social when you share your draWings online and meet other people to draw together.
The Urban Sketchers website has connected a truly global web of sketching enthusiasts. A site correspondent from the United States travels to Barcelona for the first time and has a built-in sketching companion and guide-how cool is that? We draw on location, indoors or o Laura Frankstone is oblivious to passersby as she sketches in downtown Portland, Oregon. Urban sketching is a raw and pure form of art that requires drawing from life, rather than from photographs or the imagination.
In most cases, urban sketching is practiced on the street. Some sketchers lean up against a tree or the corner of a bUilding or sit on a stair or bench. Others bring along a folding stool.
In daylight or at night, whether it's hot or cold, in rain or sunshine, urban sketchers draw what they witness. Sketching the urban environment produces more than a hand-drawn representation of a given place. Behind each drawing is a story of what was happening before our eyes: a bUilding being torn down, a business closing its doors, or an encounter with a stranger in the subway.
Sketches become first-person accounts of life as it happens. Discover the story behind each impression and gain valuable insight from the artists who captured them. Sandwiched between a bay and a lake, life in Seattle revolves around water.
Ferries taking commuters across Puget Sound, cargo ships coming from Asia, fishing boats en route to Alaska: water-related themes abound here, providing plenty of opportunities for local sketchers to draw. Gabriel Campanario Some of my best memories of growing up in Spain are of summers sketching in my parent's hometown ofMontemolin. When I was a teenager, I would sit in the middle of the street during siesta time and draw the ruins of a medieval castle sitting atop the highest hill in a mile 32 km radius.
For the next two decades, the demands of adulthood got in the way of practicing my favorite sport, drawing in the street. But moving to Seattle was the excuse I needed to begin again, drawing every day. I started drawing in a pocket sketchbook as a way to record my experiences and get acquainted with my new city.
From sketching on the bus to drawing during weekend excursions, daily sketching became a habit and a way to improve my illustration skills. Now, it's just part of who I am: an urban sketcher. It helps me set roots. Petersburg, Russia www. Prudnikova, Olga, , , Moscow, Russia www. About the Author Journalist and illustrator Gabriel Campanario is best known as the founder of Urban Sketchers, an online community and nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing.
He's also the author of the Seattle Times blog and weekly column "Seattle Sketcher," an illustrated journal of life in the Puget Sound region. Campanario's journalism career has spanned newsrooms in his native Spain, as well as Portugal, Nevada, California, and Virginia.
He lives in Mill Creek, Washington, with his wife and two children. Campanario was sixteen when he drew his first urban sketches in Montemolin, Badajoz, a picturesque Spanish town set amid groves of olive trees, where his parents were born and raised.
He didn't know yet that he was an urban sketcher. Acknowledgments This book wouldn't exist without the generous contributions of the artists featured. My sincere gratitude goes to every one of them for trusting me with their images and their words, and for meeting the tight deadlines.
Swasky , and Luis Ruiz provided invaluable help on the chapters featuring their cities. I shudder to think where I would be, personally and professionally, without Michelle Archer. Special thanks to my editor, Mary Ann Hall, who helped shape what seemed an overwhelming number of drawings into the book you have in your hands now, copy editor Pat Price, art director Regina Grenier, book designer Luke Herriott, project manager Betsy Gammons and all the team at Quarry Books for this precious gift, which I hope will inspire generations of urban sketchers for years to come.
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User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. I like the short stories on the sketches. Florian Afflerbach and his friends were drawing in Venice when the flood came and soak their feet.
Nina Johansson documented the demolition of a public bath house, and the protest against the demolition. Artist Joao Catarino has a sentiment that I share: Drawing everywhere is like traveling all the time. Sketching is one way to get the holiday mood all the time. I can look back at my sketches and remember vividly the places visited.
I cannot say the same for travel photos I've taken. The experience is richer when you're not looking but studying a place. I wish I had started sketching earlier. This is a fantastic book.
Highly recommended. There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link. An inspiring way to "see the world one drawing at a time" By Tina K. I have admired the sketches of author Gabriel Campanario ever since they started appearing weekly in The Seattle Times. Known as the Seattle Sketcher, Campanario takes even the most commonly photographed, iconic Seattle scenes, such as the Pike Place Market, and gives them his fresh, personal perspective that no camera can capture.
I was so inspired that I became an urban sketcher myself. As I dug for more of his work on his personal blog, I was led to the local and then the international Urban Sketchers blogs initiated by Campanario , which showed me the world "one drawing at a time" - and further compelled me to explore my city and any city I visit with a sketchbook. Now The Art of Urban Sketching brings to print the same types of visual expressions that I have been admiring online.
The plus pages are divided into three parts. The first helps beginning sketchers gather the right tools and attitude to adopt the urban sketchers' manifesto. The second, and largest, section, the meat of the book, compiles the work of more than a hundred artists worldwide giving us their unique urban views. It's nothing short of amazing to see the variety of styles, media and perspectives.
Some sketches are casual and loose, while others are intensely detailed. Some are completed in minutes; others in many hours over the course of weeks. All are the result of careful observation and the desire of the artists to truly know a place by sketching it. I especially enjoyed the artist profiles, their first-person anecdotes about the scenes they sketched and the photos of those artists sketching usually standing on a street corner, sitting against a building or on a bench.
I also appreciated brief technical tips the artists offered to make outdoor sketching more comfortable or make drawings more interesting, and information about how long the sketch took and media used.
Some sites depicted are easily recognizable because they are widely photographed, yet the sketches are more intimate and personal than most photos. Other cities are less-often seen in the media, so these glimpses of faraway neighborhoods seem led by personal tour guides.
The third section covers themes - architecture, seasons, nighttime sketching - that urban artists are compelled to sketch.
As a long-time wannabe sketcher, I have read and admired many books on nature sketching Hannah Hinchman's fine work comes first to mind , but as a city dweller, I don't often or easily see the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife shown in those books. Finally, a book of sketches for the rest of us that makes it clear that the urban landscape can be as compelling, moving and ever-changing as nature.
If you have any desire to capture your urban life in a sketchbook or view how others have captured theirs, you will love this book. Good Buy for artists of all levels! By PaintingLover This book suits the needs of everybody who likes to draw. It provides beginners the initial push to confront the white paper by means of simple schemes. The tips of the selected artists - more than - will speed up the learning process of anyone who wants to go further.
For those who already know how to draw, the book offers a collection of themes and approaches that will really be able to "open the mind" for new horizons. Based on the urban theme, one can have a broad range of techinques and be able to combine new formulas that have proven successful. Thanks to the personality and the spirit of the author, who made a meritocratic selection of the artists presented, the book provides valuable "solutions" for almost all problems faced by an urban sketcher while trying to accomplish his task of selecting the most important information from the urban scene depicted.
This is truly useful even for the most experienced sketchers. Posting Komentar. Minggu, 02 Mei [A See all customer reviews
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