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The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners: How to Build a Practice for Sketching on Location Flexibound – 3 November 2020

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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, color 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.

TheUrban 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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Language : English
Flexibound : 112 pages
ISBN-10 : 1631599291
ISBN-13 : 978-1631599293

Best Sellers Rank: 45,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 77 in Pen & Ink Drawing
- 86 in Watercolour Painting Techniques

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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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Unfortunate book design interferes with great content

4 December 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I love Suhita's work, and have been following her blog for years. It was SO exciting to see that she had written a book, and I immediately pre-ordered a copy.

The content does not disappoint, but the design of the book is terrible. The main text font is tiny, tiny, tiny, and the font of the captions is tinier still. Plus, the typeface itself is very faint*. My vision is decent, but to comfortably read this book, I'm going to need reading glasses or a magnifying device.

(I've produced text materials, and the guideline about bolding tiny fonts for readability holds true. Was the publisher trying to save ink by printing so faintly?)

Bottom line: Be prepared to need assistive eyewear with this book.

8 people found this helpful

Happy Artist

A Great Guide for simplifying the complexed view

23 November 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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Often objects or scenery are seen as very complicated. This guide by Suhita Shirokar stresses the importance of simplifying objects into basic components in order to draw them. For me, this is a very important point because I often tend to feel over whelmed by the big picture. Tis approach will be extremely useful as I venture into urban sketching in my community.

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SMS

Great gift for any art lover

30 November 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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The book's title is Techniques for Beginners, and I found it to be a little gem. While it's definitely excellent for those who are just starting out in art, I'd say it's a great little guide for any artist at any level. Suhita covers a lot in this little book! It's got excellent examples of finding and really seeing different shapes and getting things down on paper quickly, and then going in and adding detail, to keep a seemingly overwhelming subject from being so very intimidating. She also gives examples of how just about anything can become a subject for one's art, however simple: places, people, things. And she delves into how to spend time seeing and doing contour drawings, fleshing things out with form and shadows, and how to create textures and patterns within images. She touches on relative scale, she gives examples of perspective and how to make sense out of what you are seeing in front of you, and she helps with thinking through composition and the visual paths one takes through a work of art. There are many artists' pieces to enjoy throughout the book, and good examples of her discussions to help you comprehend what she's describing. I will return to this book often to be inspired and revved up for making art!

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Charles Ferrara

A great book to have in any artist’s library

25 November 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I am very delighted with this book on urban sketching. Although it is a basic book, there are nuggets of information for artists on any level of proficiency. I love the way it is formatted in a sketchbook style binding. That alone encourages one to get outside and sketch. I have found this book to be an inspiration for myself to continue to hone on my drawing skills each and every day. Don’t be fooled by the heading that says “For Beginners”—you will want this in your library of reference books.

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yellow rose

Not Set in Stone!

7 December 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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Suhita is not showing you how to sketch her style.

Instead, she encourages you in how to start (or continue) your sketching habit with ideas for how, where, when, all decisions you make for yourself, and showing many sketches of hers and others. ideas for your kit, including colors and sketching tools, are brief and helpful (even for this experienced watercolorist).

This lovely, small book has me starting a daily habit of sketching in my home and yard, neighborhood, and it is getting me away from my studio for grand ideas that occur a lot less than daily.

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