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The Urban Sketching Handbook Techniques for Beginners

How to Build a Practice for Sketching on Location
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The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners by Suhita Shirodkar teaches essential skills for sketching architecture, people, and everyday objects directly on location. It covers fundamentals such as value, colour mixing, and perspective through practical studies and exercises suitable for home, studio, or outdoor settings. This guidebook is an ideal starting point for newcomers to urban sketching and those wishing to strengthen their observational and drawing skills.

Part of the Urban Sketching Handbook series, this compact and portable volume includes expert instruction and on-location tips, making it easy to carry along wherever creativity strikes.
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Perfect for beginners to urban sketching and artists seeking to improve basic observational drawing techniques.

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The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners guides artists to build a strong foundation in observational drawing and painting to establish an urban sketching practice.

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In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners, artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Shirodkar shares essential skills for sketching architecture, people, and everyday objects on location.

You'll learn the basics of value, colour mixing, and perspective through helpful studies and exercises, whether at home, in studio, and on location. The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners is perfect for anyone who's just getting started in this fascinating art form, or who wants to develop their observational and drawing aptitude by reinforcing basic concepts.

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 closureβ€”perfect to toss in your backpack or artist's tote.

Series: Urban Sketching Handbooks

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631599293

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 100+ color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Suhita Shirodkar is an urban sketcher, artist, art director, graphic designer, illustrator, journalist, and teacher. An international correspondent with the nonprofit Urban Sketchers, Suhita has taught at the Art Institute in Sunnyvale, California, and in urban sketching workshops in exciting locales around the world. She has been featured in The Mercury News and on KQED, and she also runs a popular Etsy store where she sells her artwork. Born in India, she currently lives in San Jose, California.

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