The Traveling Sketcher: City
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The Traveling Sketcher: City
The Traveling Sketcher: City
A complete guide to drawing on location using just 5 colours
Learn the building blocks of drawing cityscapes – bricks, trees, roads, windows, railings, tiles – to recreate everyday scenes from your travels.
With Alice’s clear step-by-step instructions, you’ll develop the skills to create memory-filled sketchbook pages, as you capture the atmosphere of any trip in your drawings.
With inspiration from major cities such as Barcelona, Tokyo and Amsterdam, you can either sketch from photographs or real life, taking your learnings with you wherever you go. As well as using iconic spots like La Sagrada Familia to teach techniques, The Traveling Sketcher will also encourage you to observe everyday moments: bustling markets, washing on a line, trees in a park, street views from a quiet coffee shop.
Using a limited palette of 5 colours to show you can still create incredibly striking and vivid scenes with minimal resources, this book travels with you, helping to personalise your trips. It is the ultimate guide to sketching on the go!
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837836192
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Illustration: Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Alice Mawdsley is a UK-based freelance illustrator who studied illustration at Falmouth University. She enjoys reportage illustration, sharing the stories of the people she meets across her travels. Known for her colourful drawings, Alice explores different cultures, daily life and food - highlighting similarities that connect us all.
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