The Urban Sketching Handbook Techniques for Beginners

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners is a tutorial and style guide in the Urban Sketching series - this volume is by Suhita Shirodkar. Released 3rd Nov 2020 by Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 112 pages and available in flexibound format.

The introduction and tutorial sections are arranged logically with accessible and understandable text. It's illustrated throughout in color with numerous sketches by several different artists (not just the author), showing a variety of styles. The tools and supplies are basic and easily acquired without much expense. Most of the supplies will already be available for most readers. Each of the small mini-tutorials show process pics and how they develop along with some explanatory text.

The study tutorials are arranged thematically:objects, places, and people. The overall feel of the book is rich in technique, useful, and varied and I saw so many things which got my fingers itching to jump in and start drawing. I think most (non)artists are a lot more shy about drawing on paper/media and this book has a lot of good suggestions for picking up materials and making a start.

Five stars. I really liked this book and will definitely use it going forward for my own drawing sessions. I would recommend it to artists of all levels. It could also make a valuable text for more formal classroom/group type instruction. There's a *lot* of information included here.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

110 packed pages, all you need to know to start Urban Sketching. I found the sections on values and shadows very helpful Show example of lots of different styles of sketching. Well worth buying

The Urban Sketching Handbook is an introductory book on the materials and techniques for this area. The author explores different methods and offers a variety of different styles and examples. The instructions are too sparse to follow step by step but they give you a feel for what can be achieved and encourages beginners to explore and find their own style. I really enjoyed flicking through the pages and being inspired. You will want to grab your drawing equipment and get out there.

The books back up their steps with real painting from urban sketchers, and focuses more on the just paint point then excessively trying to teach you techniques. It gives you a couple pointers on the basic, but puts more effort on how to start instead of "Here are these perfect paintings you will never be able to reproduce-step by step tutorials". I would recommend this book exactly because of that: it will be useful for inexperienced beginners or artist that want to start urban sketching, all of them get the right pointers to just start painting.

. Who better to learn urban sketching or art journaling from than sketchers who seem to live and breathe this art from the urban sketchers community.

The Urban Sketching Handbook : Techniques for Beginners is a new addition to the series and once again, I am loving it! This is another book I could look through again and again and still not get fed up. I am not a new art journaler but I find I am still inspired and refreshed by the techniques and tips provided by the author and the many contributing sketchers from all over the world.

The book is divided into 4 main chapters, and each chapter touches on the essential elements of objects, places, people and putting it all together. I think it's really good that each chapter starts with an exercise so beginners will never be at a loss at what to draw or paint.

It is not strictly a step-by-step instructions kind of book, though you can see some short step-by-step that shows how you could draw and paint a building, for instance.

Definitely a great title from which to launch the addictive and wonderful art of urban sketching.

I hope to own hardcopies of all the titles from this excellent series soon!

This is my honest opinion based on the review copy I received from the publisher.

This is a great book for people who want to sketch and paint. It includes a few steps and a finished painting for several different images. I like how it is presented and it has plenty of ideas. It's probably better suited for adults and older children, maybe not for young beginners.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners is a nice enough book - but feels like a strangely placed addition to the Urban Sketching Handbook family. We're about ten books in (I believe) to the Urban Sketching Handbook series, and only now do we get a "Beginners" book. Unfortunately that makes it a little difficult to judge "Techniques for Beginners," if you've read or purchased any of the previous ten books like I have. If you have read the other books in the series, especially the more general ones, then this book is well tread territory of the basics of sketching materials, form, perspective, locations/objects to draw, and drawing prompts. If you haven't read any of the other books, then this is a good place to start and see some of the highlights of what the Urban Sketching Books emphasize. It's not a bad book by any means, but it's harder to define it as the ultimate "beginner" book in the series when you could alternatively pick up "Sketch Now, Think Later," "101 Sketching Tips," or "The Complete Urban Sketching Companion," which already exist in the line. Ultimately Suhita has a difficult job with standing out here -- given that all the books introduce basic concepts, and 3 books seem to already be "generalist" and thus good options for beginners already. At this point, I feel like I'm quibbling a tiny bit - I do like this book! It's enjoyable (though the netgalley digital copy is woefully out of proportion and that's probably because the printed versions are already a bit too narrow to begin with). I'd definitely pick it up for a friend just wanting to start sketching. I wish it had come out much earlier in the line up, and I also wish that we would stop tossing in full on still life oil paintings (even if they're only "studies") and acting as if those are urban sketches. Pick this up if you want to introduce someone to urban sketching, but not if they're already several books into the series.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners How to Build a Practice for Sketching on Location by Suhita Shirodkar is aimed at beginners, with lots of descriptions and information on how to gain techniques.

It comes from the point of view of several artists, which is good for showing different styles.

The Urban Sketching Handbook is a series, and so if you find this one helpful, you might want to have a look at the others!

  The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners How to Build a Practice for Sketching on Location  was published on 3rd November 2020, and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop .

You can follow Suhita Shirodkar on her  website .

I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to  Quarto Publishing .

An informative guide to many aspects of urban sketching. This book teaches different techniques for sketching a variety of things, from buildings to people. This would be a great resource for beginners looking to develop their skills in observational sketching.

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing this ARC.

This book is filled with helpful information that should be helpful for anyone starting out with sketching locations or drawing people. Besides providing simple ways to start and simplify objects around us into more basic shapes (for ease of drawing and so it isn't all that overwhelming). There are also basic information about form, colour and perspective. What I really liked are the different examples from many different artists that are laid out and explained so that a clearer picture is given on what the author is going on about. Although overall, this book is not much different from many other art resources out there, when considering it on its own, it is a good, simple start for beginners.