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The Urban Sketching Handbook 101 Sketching Tips

Tricks, Techniques, and Handy Hacks for Sketching on the Go
By Stephanie Bower
Series: Urban Sketching Handbooks
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The Urban Sketching Handbook 101 Sketching Tips by Stephanie Bower offers an insightful guide to mastering the art of urban sketching. It features practical advice and techniques to help both beginners and experienced artists enhance their sketching skills, focusing on capturing cityscapes and everyday life with accuracy and creativity. It's a valuable resource that combines illustrations and expert tips to inspire artistic exploration in urban environments without giving away specific content details.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by capturing the vibrancy of city life through art. It's perfect for aspiring artists and seasoned sketchers alike who are looking for practical and easily accessible tips to enhance their urban sketching skills. Whether you sketch to document your travels or express your creativity, this guide provides insights that could help you see cities in a new light.

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Master the challenges of drawing on location with this collection of insider know-how and expert tips and techniques.

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Master the challenges of drawing on location with this collection of insider know-how and expert tips and techniques. Illustrator, architect, and international workshop instructor and Urban Sketcher Stephanie Bower has collected 101 of her best insider drawing tips, hacks, and techniques and shares them in this fully illustrated, portable book.

Learn shortcuts to getting your perspective right, determining your composition, and balancing your light and shadow. This book collects many basic drawing techniques into one handy volume:

- How to draw a great line
- Using ellipses to draw arches
- How towers are like wedding cakes
- The importance of your eye level line in sketching ... and 97 things more!

The book also features beautiful example illustrations from Urban Sketchers around the globe! Whether you are new to sketching or are an experienced artist, this book is chock-full of useful, practical, and clever tips to take your drawing to the next level.

The Urban Sketching Handbook series offers location artists expert instruction on creative techniques, on-location tips and advice, and an abundance of visual inspiration. These handy references come in a compact, easy-to-carry format with an elastic band closure—perfect to toss in your backpack or artist's tote.

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The Urban Sketching Handbook 101 Sketching Tips by Stephanie Bower provides practical insights into sketching through a compilation of advice and techniques. Readers appreciate the book for its clear, accessible guidance, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced sketchers. It's celebrated for its visual appeal, with many finding Bower's tips highly useful for improving their sketching skills in urban settings. The book is often recommended as a handy, inspiring resource for those passionate about capturing cityscapes through art.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631597657

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 100 color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Non-Fiction Series: Urban Sketching Handbooks Stephanie Bower

About the Author

Stephanie Bower worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. She taught the how-tos of architectural sketching for over twenty-five years in New York City at Parsons, in Seattle at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts, and most recently, in popular sketching workshops called 'Good Bones' where she teaches the concepts of basic perspective sketching and watercolor. Bower was an instructor at the 2014 Urban Sketchers Symposium in Paraty, Brazil, and also teaches an annual workshop in Civita di Bagnoregio Italy. People around the world follow her sketches online via Flickr, her blog 'Drawing Perspectives', and as blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. She is the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective, (Quarry Books, 2016).

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