The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts and Techniques from The Urban Sketching Handbooks--Architecture and Cityscapes, Understanding ... People and Motion, Working with Color

by Shari Blaukopf, Stephanie Bower, Gabriel Campanario

Draw the exciting elements of your world with confidence using the tips, techniques, and ideas in The Complete Urban Sketching Companion. Packed with information and visual inspiration on sketching architecture, cityscapes, people, and motion, plus lessons on perspective and adding color, this collection will have you filling sketchbook after sketchbook with compelling artwork.

The popularity of the urban sketching movement has grown worldwide, and it’s easy to see why. Sketching on the go is exciting, rewarding, and creatively satisfying. With so many choices of what to sketch and how to sketch it, you need a companion to offer valuable insights, enlightening tips, and tons of ideas and inspiration. The Complete Urban Sketching Companion is that helpful guide to take along on your next overseas adventure, or to your favorite café around the corner.

This book includes key drawing techniques and strategies from four books in the Urban Sketching Handbook series: Understanding Perspective, Working with Color, Architecture and Cityscapes, and People and Motion. Learn how to draw unique buildings, urban landscapes, and lively street scenes, incorporating interesting elements and striking color and lighting. Get tips on sketching with accurate perspective with easy methods and great examples to guide you along. Discover ways to capture motion, whether it’s a group of dancers or commuters on the move. Become confident in adding color to artwork by learning about different mediums and color mixing techniques.

In The Complete Urban Sketching Companion you’ll also find:
Simple tools and materials to get started
Ways to build a well-composed scene

Techniques for drawing urban environments to scale
How to construct a sketch in layers

Tips for rendering different types of perspective
Strategies for creating dramatic shadows

How to include a range of color values to create depth
Ideas for interpreting movement and gesture

Methods for drawing individuals and crowds
Get started on your urban sketching adventures today, and start capturing life.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Architecture

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 18, 2020

About the author

Shari Blaukopf is a sketcher, watercolor painter, college teacher, and art blogger. A signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, she has works in corporate, government, and private collections around the world. Correspondent with UrbanSketchers.org and co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal, Shari gives workshops throughout Europe and North America, and has taught at Urban Sketchers Symposia as well as through the Urban Sketchers Workshop Program. Shari grew up and still lives in Montreal, where she continues to discover new neighborhoods in her quest to find the most evocative streets and back alleys to sketch. Her online courses can be found at Craftsy.com, and you can follow her sketches at www.shariblaukopf.com, www.blaukopfwatercolours.com, and on Instagram @sharisketcher.

Reviews

[Literary Redhead · Rating 5 out of 5]

This would be a great gift for any budding or experienced artist. Contains everything you need to to know about drawing buildings and people in city settings. Includes a host of ideas on perspective, composition, color, motion, and more. A treasure trove for the artist on the go!

Pub Date 18 Aug 2020

Grateful to the Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry and NetGalley for the early copy, in exchange for my honest review.

#TheCompleteUrbanSketchingCompanion #NetGalley

[Elizabeth A · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the best books I've read about Urban Sketching. It's a reference guide that summarizes best practices and tips for the various categories listed in the subtitle. I really enjoyed this one and will be dipping into it often.

[Jordan Whitby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Binding is rubbish. Can’t see half the bloody pictures

[Evilblacksheep · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book through
NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. All the opinions are my own.

This book is great, especially for either beginners in Urban Sketching, or for people who want a more compact version of the great collection of books that is The Urban Sketching Handbook series.

This book contains selected chapters from four previously published books in the series: Understanding Perspective, Working with Color, Architecture and Cityscapes, and People and Motion. I feel like the chapters have been well selected to offer a good basics on each of those topics and you can always get the other books in case you want to get more in depths on a specific one. Already accomplished urban sketchers will also probably be more interested in the latter.

I liked the layout of the book, it's clean and appealing, well illustrated and never too dense while still providing plenty of useful concepts and tips. I cannot recommend it enough if Urban Sketching is a thing you want to get into or you're beginning at.

I was gonna finish this review by saying that the copy I was provided was a digital one and I was planning to get a physical copy to browse it more comfortably. However, some amazon reviews are making me reconsider this as it seems the binding of the physical copies is not good, so maybe stick with the eBook.

[The Sassy Bookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little reference book for the budding artist. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Beautiful illustrations. A really well-rounded book on urban sketching.

**Arc via NetGalley**

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

If, like me, your experience with drawing has mostly centered on the human form and still life, may I suggest you try your hand at some background drawing? And what better way to get better at something than to sketch?

"The Complete Urban Sketching Companion" is an excellent book for beginners who want to try their hand at urban sketching but don't know where to start. Blaukopf & Co. take you by the hand, step by step. Each stage of the process gets its own chapter. I especially liked the attention paid to composition and the idea of taking a little grid to hold in front of your view: it cuts it up into a digestible image for you! What a great idea.

I'm sure a lot of this advice is obvious to experienced artists, but as a self-taught enthusiast, I can only express joy at this kind of practical guide. Even the examples are practical: each illustration comes with a blurb listing the materials, the type of paper, etc. At the very back of the book, after absorbing all this knowledge, readers will find multiple to-do lists that incorporate all the lessons into bite-size tasks. There's no risk of feeling overwhelmed! Each task is achievable. Every time you tick a box off, you improve. And then you can tackle the next box. You plan your own sketching course, all thanks to this companion book.

In conclusion, I'm really looking forward to returning to urban sketching with a more structured approach. It's hard not to feel excited after such a friendly guide! Recommended for anyone who needs some creative time in their life.

I received a free eARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Natalia · Rating 3 out of 5]

What I liked
+ commentary next to the artworks to provide examples for the discussed matter
+ certain diversity in the illustrations provided, it's not only by the authors. I do think the diversity could be better though. It seemed like the same old list of "the usual suspects" famous urban sketchers. Maybe it was just easy to go through a friend list & pick some artworks of the people that the authors knew or people who post to the USk blog, we'd never know. But it did seem like there was certain lack of "fresh air" in that regard.
+ challenges in the end of the book to practice each of the 4 big topics

What I didn't like:
- very, very poor quality of print for the illustrations. In general the book seemed to be a worse quality than the previous books in the USk handbook series, and while this didn't affect the perception of the text that much, it was devastating to the illustrations quality. For the books of this type it is crucial. I'm no publishing expert but the following things destroyed the illustrations for me:
- dpi(?) in print: I could see the pixalization or separate dots in the illustrations
- color in real life vs color in print: the illustrations seemed to be more washed out, whiter, less saturated, not as dark as the previous books or at least other books about art that I own.
- many artworks illustrated were designed to span across the middle of the book and because of how the binding was done, a large part of the artworks isn't visible, to the point that to be able to see it you'd have to force the book to open wider than it safely can os you risk ruining the whole book. The upsetting part was that sometimes the central part of the artwork was the main focus of what was discussed in the text on that page. So you're reading about a specific X of a specific topic and you can't even see it. I don't know how that was possible to get that approved for publishing. Especially with my respect to the authors works, I can't understand how those obvious issues were not caught before printing. If they were caught, and then the decision was made to still proceed with print, then I'd be even more upset.

- Book binding in general. It was unacceptable in regards to the illustrations as I described above, but it was also making the reading so much more inconvenient! The book "conveniently" opens to 30°, then till 60° you have to actively stretch it with your hands, opening the book to 90° creates a crease in binding & you risk it to be ruined. Forget trying to open it safely more than 90°, don't even dream of this book laying flat. Book binding alone stole a full star from my review, probably top 3 worst bindings I experienced for the past 3 years of reading.

- The way the pages were designed, chapters separated, the fact that the concepts were taked from the previous books in the series, and the overall amount of matter per page count -- all created an impression that the book has been quite stretched & just a collection of excerpts from the books mentioned you can see on the cover. unless you collect all the books in the series, I won't consider this book worth purchasing. Not only because the material is available in other books but also because the amount of matter per page is so tiny that you could learn much more from just looking through the social media / blog posts of the authors.

- OK this is subjective but I don't think I've learned that much if anything at all. Not only for the reason of matter per page I discussed earlier but also because some advice given seemed to me too obvious & not book worthy. I'm subjective here because I'm a non-beginner artist myself, let's put it that way. If you're a beginner, this book could be nice for you, maybe. I doubt it. There are so many much more helpful books on art & USk in particular. From the teaching practice/wisdom, any teacher would tell you there's no group where students all have the exactly same level. Therefore, a lot of attention in teaching is paid to organizing your teaching in a way that would challenge both beginners & strongest students. This concept is great not only because it challenges your strongest students but also because it gives your "weakest" ones see that their growth will continue even when they reach a certain level. Here I only saw beginner level advice & tips. I'm yet to come across an USk book targeting advanced students.

- Part of the book talks about sketching people. While sketching people is definitely part of Urban Sketching movement, there are still distinctions / guidelines what is and is not considered an urban sketch. There's a great illustration on it in the USk Facebook group. Simply put, it should still have a context / feeling of the place, something that could make you think that you could mentally locate it on a map, not just a person's portrait. However, many illustrations in the sketching people sections were just that - a portrait of a person with no sense of place as it would be in the spirit of USk. While a particular artwork was nice to illustrate a certain concept, placing that illustration in the book _specifically about urban sketching_ was creating a wrong message.

- The list of sketchers whose works were included is so inconsistently done! Some have "USA", some - "United States", some only mention the state. Some are listed with their city but not the country, while others have 2+ countries listed, and some have a country listed but not the city (this one would actually be acceptable if a sketcher asks for privacy and they don't share their exact city). If I submitted my work like that in the University, it would never be accepted

OVERALL
It breaks my heart to give this book a low rating & in no way is a reflection of my attitude towards the authors whom and whose work I respect, but I wouldn't be honest with myself if I put a 4-5 stars rating.

Would I recommend reading it?
Yes if:
* you are a beginner'
* are a USk books collector'
* you don't mind "dancing" around this book and changing pose in order to read left page vs right.

No if:
* you learn about art & USk in particular from observing & analyzing/feeling the artworks and therefore the illustrations quality matters to you'
* you've read the books mentioned on the cover'
* over read 2+ USk handbooks in general (because advice is very repetitive)'
* you value good publishing work & don't accept mediocre binding.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an absolutely beautiful book, full to the brim with gorgeous sketches to illustrate the points each section makes. It is a very detailed and comprehensive guide to the different aspects to consider when sketching, from perspective to colour theory. It’s also fantastic that it provides spaces for the reader to practice what they learnt in each chapter. As with most art books, they can sometimes be a bit vague as to where to start or what constitutes a “bad” sketch. This is definitely not a beginners book, and it assumes that the reader is already familiar with the Urban Sketcher premise. The quality of the drawings within could also discourage some starting out, who might deem them as “unattainable” to beginners.
Overall, this is a stunning book, perfect for the casual artist who wants to build on their skills.

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

The Complete Urban Sketching Companion is a tutorial guide for multiple techniques for sketching "in the wild". Due out 18th Aug 2020 from Quarto on their Quarry imprint the book is a compilation of previously released material (from the other books in the Urban Sketching series) plus some additional commentary and content. It's 256 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is a concise and well made book covering some essential concepts for sketching backgrounds in an urban setting. The emphasis is on speed, fluidity, building technique and consistency, distilling often chaotic and kinetic reality down in the sketchbook reliably and aesthetically. Although the book is aimed at moderately advanced students to professionals, there are takeaways here for artists of every level.

The layout is logical; the first section introduces the tools, supplies and techniques, including a valuable subchapter on etiquette and valuing one's own work and growth as an artist.

The study tutorials are arranged thematically: architecture & cityscapes, understanding perspective, people & motion, and working with color. 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. The books from which the information in this volume was distilled are: The Urban Sketching Handbooks--Architecture and Cityscapes, Understanding Perspective, People and Motion, Working with Color . The authors have also included a useful checklist of personal goal challenges to tick off as they're achieved (draw an alley, a skyline, draw stairs going up and down from the vantage point, draw a meal as if the dishes were transparent, draw on paper which isn't white, draw people in a bar, sketch the same scene at different times of day, and many more). The challenge checklist could also make a nice starting point for assignments in a classroom or lecture setting.

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

[Mechthild · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a great companion
"The Complete Urban Sketching Companion. Essential Concepts and Techniques from The Urban Sketching Handbooks – Architecture and Cityscapes, Understanding Perspective, People and Motion, Working with Color" by Shari Blaukopf, Stephanie Bower, and Gabriel Campanario was published by Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry. It is thought as a companion to the various books from the "The Urban Sketching Handbook" series. After the introduction that covers supplies and etiquette, the book is divided into four main parts: 1) Architecture and Cityscapes, 2) Understanding Perspective, 3) People and Motion, and 4) Working with Color. An enormous range of topics, such as Composition, Basic Spacial Principles, Expressions, or Pigments & Color Mixing are covered in these four parts.
The book is presented with a great design, images, and drawings. It is inspirational and very informative. Helpful Tips, "Workshops", and comments are also included. The drawings might be challenging for beginners because of the complexity of the examples, but they can be a real help to those artists to learn about the various topics which are covered. I really appreciated that the authors are presenting artwork from different artists and if readers want to study more of the works of a particular artists they will have no problem since the necessary information is included in the list of contributions at the end of the book. Readers can also find 72 challenges there that can be a help to them to apply their own skills and a detailed index which is a great help if readers search for a particular topic. I highly recommend the book and, although the book is predominantly thought for watercolor artists, it can be also of help for artists who use other media.
The complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley free of charge. I was under no obligation to offer a positive review. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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[Konstancja · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Complete Urban Sketching Companion is a book that provides a comprehensive guide to the essential concepts and techniques of urban sketching. The book is a compilation of three volumes from the Urban Sketching Handbook series: Architecture and Cityscapes, Understanding Perspective, and People and Motion.

One key learning point from the book is the importance of understanding perspective in urban sketching. The book provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the various types of perspective and how to use them in urban sketching, including one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective. It also provides tips and techniques for using perspective to create the illusion of depth and space in your sketches.

Another key learning point is the importance of capturing movement and dynamics in urban sketching. The book provides tips and techniques for sketching people and other moving objects in a way that captures the sense of movement and activity in an urban environment. This includes tips on how to sketch people and animals in motion, as well as how to depict reflections, shadows, and other visual elements that help to convey a sense of movement and activity.

Overall, I would rate the book 4/5. The book provides a wealth of useful and practical tips and techniques for urban sketching, and the content is well-organized and easy to follow. The book is a great resource for designers and artists looking to improve their skills in urban sketching, and it provides a comprehensive guide to the essential concepts and techniques of this medium. However, some readers may find that the focus on urban sketching may not be as applicable to other types of sketching or drawing.

[Steve Dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was fantastic. I'm not an urban sketcher (yet, fingers remain crossed) and I was hoping to pick up some quick advice on how to get started. Thus, I turned to Shari Blaukopf's skilled pen and watercolour for some guidance.

There is good here and there is bad (the former outweighing the later quite significantly). The bad is quick and easy to describe: a lack of specificity. Where Blaukopf does a great job of giving overviews, she does not go so far as to give specific recommendations that are personal. The most egregious of these is a lack of clear recommendations for equipment, but this is a more standard trend where the advice is generally too broad for my taste.

This downside, however, is far outweighed by the absolutely gorgeous set of sketches that permeate every page. The best illustration of the concepts discussed are the various drawings by different people, capturing cities and landscapes and buildings across the world. I felt very absorbed in the world of urban sketching, in the flow and feel of what urban sketching can be. This is not always true of art books, and I was very pleased with this one for capturing a broad range.

It's got a lot of heart, and it captures a beautiful feel. Loved it.

[Lanae · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this one hoping it was not above my art skills. It was. But I still found it useful.

I generally draw faces and cutesy animals.. City scenes are beyond me. But if you do urban sketching I think this will be very useful, not matter your skill level. More a reference book than a how to, so you do need some skills if you really want to benefit from this. There are some blank pages for sketching on. Probably the topic covered most extensively is color but there are also sections of things like composition, perspective, etc in this book.

At the very end of the book there is a page of challenges in four different categories:
Architecture and cityscapes has 26 challenges including “draw a skyscraper.”
Understanding perspective has 25 challenges including “draw rounded lampshades from below.”
People and motion has 19 challenges including “draw a friend.”
Working with color has 21 challenges including “take artistic license, painting the sky anything but blue or gray.”

[Michele · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is thicker than the other Urban Sketching Handbooks in the series. It’s a compilation of four existing books, with about half the content, included in this companion book.
(Ie each book normally is 112 pages each, so this one is roughly about 56 pages each of the four volumes: Architecture and Cityscapes, Understanding Perspective, People and Motion, and Working with Color - which I had already read).

I found the information that was covered really handy, especially the perspective one. I always struggle with perspective and proportions and this one gave a lot of exercises and techniques to try and do it properly!

The biggest thing I didn’t love was the binding. Because it’s thicker, and the way it’s bound, unless I cracked the spine to force it to lay flat, it was thick and heavy to hold or prop open while I tried to do the sketching exercises. The regular handbooks lay flat easily and much better to use as reference. I’m definitely intrigued enough to check out the full 112 pages of just Understanding Perspective!

[Kylie Summers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really excellent for art enthusiasts and even for architecture and design students.

The content really goes in depth to explain the different techniques needed to make landscape drawings and paintings, in an urban setting.

It starts off with the supplies needed and etiquettes of making art, and includes well thought out, detailed chapters on cityscapes and architecture, perspective, people and motion and working with color. It is really quite comprehensive.

I particularly liked all of the illustrations, as they were so well done, and detailed.

This is certainly a must have for artists who want to sketch and paint urban architecture. Not only does it teach you to draw the buildings, it also has complete chapters on drawing people and even how to color/ paint your work.

Thank you to the artists/authors, publishers and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC for an honest review.

[Jamie Bee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Master Urban Sketching Skills

If you already are a fairly decent artist comfortable with your mediums, this book could help you consider and drill down to some very specific considerations when working with buildings and cityscapes, perspective required for urban settings, people and motion, and color. This book is not for the beginner who is just learning to do urban sketches. It compiles some essential concepts from shorter books in The Urban Sketching Handbook series. This companion is divided into four sections, one for each of these books, giving tips and techniques on four or five topics from those books. The authors certainly have provided a lot of things to consider as you pull together a sketch and ultimately the finished piece from it. Highly recommended if you like drawing urban settings.

I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.

My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I consider the Urban Sketching books to be the best combination of eye candy and fantastically valuable information and this very comprehensive guide is no exception. In fact, if you've never read any of them and aren't sure where to start, I'd say this is the best one to start with.

It's comprehensive and covers buildings, cityscapes and people. It has color concepts, perspective, motion, depth, and so many other fundamentals of sketching in urban settings. It breaks down the sketch step by step so you know where to start, how to build, and how to put the finishing touches.

It also has all the delicious eye-candy I've come to expect from these books. Fantastic sketches, wonderful variety, and it's sure to make you itch to go out and sketch. If only one could master sketching just by reading books!

with gratitude to netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

[Flora · Rating 4 out of 5]

Flipping through this book was such a big pleasure for me! Not least because I am a big fan of all three of the authors/artists and have been following them and admiring their work on social media for a long time.

Almost every tip is accompanied by a beautiful sketch as an example and, I can tell you, I ogled at practically every one of them!

I had reviewed Shari Blaukopf’s Working with Color which now forms part of this collection of four books from the Urban Sketching Handbook series. I really enjoyed that title and these four books formed into one is pleasure multiplied by four for me.

The information and pictorials are great for a beginner sketcher (or art journaler of which I am one) and also for more advanced sketchers who want to pick up a book for inspiration now and then.

Thank you Netgalley and Quarry Books for the review copy. This is my honest opinion.

[Mai · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me a free copy of the book. The fact that I got it for free does not influence my review in any way.

Amazing beginner guide, but I had two tiny issues.

One was that the book had very little exercises/actionable tasks to do to cement the knowledge and put it into action. I did see the challenges section at the end, but felt that scattering them throughout the book might've been more effective.

The second one was the huge focus on watercolour when there are so many colourful mediums you could use on the go. Is watercolour convenient? Sure, but it's far from the only thing you could use.

Otherwise great, though, really liked it and felt that it got to just the right level of in-depth for someone starting out.

[MiA · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is such a lovely book, both succinct and creative. Especially useful if you major in architecture or interior design. I wish there were more focus on pencil/coal sketches (my favourite mode of drawing), but regardless, I enjoyed it all the same. The way the concept of perspective is explained in the book makes this complicated concept easier to manage. With committed practise, I believe some of the sketches in the book are easy to replicate. I loved the worksheet at the end of the book. A few more of those, arranged as levels, would have been nice.

[Angelica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an excellent guide to help create beautiful buildings, scenery and architecture. I love drawing but always shy away from drawing places and buildings. This is an easy to follow guide to help you plan your drawings and how to see buildings in a simpler way in order to envisage drawing them. I am a newbie at this kind of drawing, so perhaps I need more of a beginner's guide and then move onto this one. Although this one has helped break this down for me and realize I could be capable of drawing these kinds of urban settings. I am exciting to attempt to draw more.

[Lael Walters · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is apparently a compilation of 4 other urban sketching books. There are 4 sections, one for each book with about 50-60 pages each I have not read any of those other books, so it is not clear how much more information they have although it looks like they are about double page-wise what is available in this book. Overall it has a lot of great suggestions/ideas for sketching urban areas as well as tips and ideas to think about while sketching. I especially enjoyed looking at all the sketches included by various artists. My favorite section the one on people and motion.

[Daniel Te · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fairly solid guide to getting into urban sketching (which is its own unique type of style of art). There's a lot of basic fundamentals here, but what I also appreciate about the book is that it also gets into the spirit of the style as well - engaging with your environment and the people around you, abstracting and representing what you see into loose sketches rather than perfectionistic representations of the world, and appreciating how colors mix. The strength of urban sketching is that it really is art that builds with and engages with the world in spontaneity.

[Doug · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was taking an Urban ketching time while reading this book. The book had a very in-depth explanation of perspective and did a good job of focusing on urban sketching and the need for portability, quickness, and ability to choose what details to focus on while drawing. This a good beginner guide and also for more a more advanced artist.

[Mana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well presented and useful guide for complete urban sketching. With many examples, beautiful illustrations and advices such as techniques, colors, tools, perspective, composition, how to capture motion etc.

Must have for all avid artists!

[Cozy Book Spot · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice companion with lots of nice tips. It's a great gift for architecture and interior designer students. It's a helpful book but the organization is a bit messy and the drawings are a bit blurry. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

[Rob GQ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.00

[Nicole Sabbadin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great summary and direction for Urban Sketching.

[Pedro Trujillo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great reading for sketching lovers.

[Jennilyn (Thiboult) Nevins · Rating 5 out of 5]

These books are really invaluable. I appreciate the hard copies and their portability, but he digital version is handy as well, having 4 of the series in one. I loved re-reading some of these now father into my art journey and considering other ways to apply the techniques.