Urban Sketching Tutorials

How do you learn how to do urban sketching? You grab a sketchbook, jump right out there, and start moving that pencil or pen around the page. But if you would like a little more direction than that, take a look at some of the information, tips, exercises, and lessons in these urban sketching tutorials.

Tutorials Topics

Drawing Tools for Sketching
The number and variety of drawing tools is as varied as the artists who practice urban sketching.   Read More

Color Tools for Sketching
Watercolor paints are probably the most traditional medium for field sketching and painting outdoors, but...   Read More -->

Fast Sketching with Pens
Urban sketching is usually performed quickly, outdoors, on location. Drawing tools such as pencils and pens typically allow artists to get their ideas down on paper quickly and easily.   Read More -->

Starting a Sketch
When you find an urban scene you'd like to sketch, how do you capture it on a page?  The first things to consider are these:   Read More -->

Karla Beatty teaching watercolor painting at the Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, USA.