The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts and Techniques from The Urban Sketching Handbooks--Architecture and Cityscapes, ... (Volume 10) (Urban Sketching Handbooks, 10)

This book is hugely inspiring. I ordered it to push myself to do more outdoor drawing and painting. I usually paint landscapes or woodland scenes. It inspired me to go out and draw the buildings and see them in a different way. I fell in love with the color choice chapters and how they are used.

Handy little book when you need a quick reference for drawing and coloring. Good stuffs and info all in one book. Like many ppl said pages are cumbersome to turn and texts are too small. What do expect from a book with 256 pages.

Three different artists write up and show illustrated examples of approaches to sketching. In particular, I love the color exercises by Shari Blaukopf. Do not just read the book -- try out the ideas.

Everything you ever wanted to know about urban sketching in one place!!

Great book for anyone seeking advice on methods, techniques and ideas for painting the urban landscape in watercolor. Lots of samples, addresses some of the most difficult challenges in perspective and offers a ‘one-stop’ reference for artists in this genre.

I am so happy with this and all of this series.....excellent aids in learning to approach my art better...highly recommend it!

I was really looking forward to this book, but the glued binding is absolutely HIDEOUS and renders the book marginally useful. Some pictures and content near the center fold line can’t even be read. I haven’t yet had time to enjoy the content since I am still trying to “break in” the backing enough to even read this. I would recommend spending extra money to buy the individual books instead of this compilation volume. A sewn or ring binding would have made a huge difference.

I was so excited to find this book was part of the buy 2 get 3 sale. These series of books come recommended by artists like Teoh Yi Chie for urban sketching. The problem however is this book is so tiny. Perhaps they wanted to keep them uniform in size with the other books in the series. But that doesn't work because this is a thicker book. So keeping it this small but so thick makes it ackward. Besides the fact the print is tiny and so are the pictures. For the price it seems they could have increased the dimensions and this would have been perfect. No one is taking a book this size on a plein air adventure anyways.I also think in this day of recognizing diversity that art book printers in particular would understand that many artists have vision issues. It seems there is an idea that if you draw (esp) your vision must be perfect. Many regular size books have ridiculously small print too. Even slight changes to book size and print size would make a world of difference.

Great book for developing skills! Easy to follow.

El libro está en inglés, pero como eso para mí no es problema, no me importa. Si no dominas el lenguaje supongo que ni te lo plantearás.Es un compendio de otros libros de esta serie, una serie acerca de distintos aspectos del "urban sketching", y como tal, resulta un resumen la mar de útil y práctico, Personalmente creo que si tienes éste, puedes prescindir de los demás a menos que se trate de un tema en el que tienes un interés especial o que se trate del de "101 sketching tips" (otro que me ha gustado también sobremanera y que es una joya por sí solo).Conoci la serie por primera vez en la última edición de Arco, en uno de los stands de libros, y me intrigó bastante. Uno no puede gastarse mucho de golpe, así que cuando ví este libro me planteé que podría sustituir a los demás (teniendo en cuenta que tampoco me interesa de momento profundizar en áreas concretas demasiado).¡Y vaya si merece la pena! Es más largo que los demás, y si tenemos en cuenta todo el material redundante en los demás que no necesita ir repitiendo en cada sección, resulta un compendio muy interesante, útil y práctico.Su tamaño es el de un libro de bolsillo, así que cabe en casi cualquier parte y uno puede llevarselo en una mochila con el resto del material sin problemas para poder consultarlo sobre la marcha en caso de necesidad en cualquier momento.Es cierto que a mí tal vez me hubiera gustado más otro tipo de organización, pero eso no es problema y, por otro lado, el que todos los libros de la serie sigan un mismo formato y esquema... aparte de una decisión editorial, conduce a una cierta familiaridad con la serie. Así que no está nada mal.En resumen, el libro está muy bien y merece mucho la pena. Lo recomiendo claramente a cualquiera que esté interesado en el bocetaje urbano. Junto con "Quick Sketching" de Ron Husband, creo que haría las delicias de cualquier aficionado.

A obra é ótima, mas o formato pequeno limita a visualização dos detalhes dos desenhos.

Acquistato come regalo, è stato apprezzato. Me lo aspettavo grande come un foglio A4 invece è piccolino e con la copertina non rigida. Secondo me non è molto comodo se ad esempio, lo si vuole lasciare aperto mentre si disegna/colora. Spedizione veloce.

I am an urban sketcher but quite new to the idea. It is immense fun and here it’s like being out with a group and getting cracking advice. There is a top tip on every page - usually more. We all bring different ideas and techniques to the party and this is a fun and inspiring addition to this excellent series.