Urban Sketching: Capturing the Views Around Us - Paperback

by Joe Larano Jr. (Author)

Urban Sketching: Capturing the Views around Us offers the readers with wealth of information on becoming successful urban sketchers and at the same time gives them the encouragement and opportunities to experience the joy and fun of urban sketching. The book gives an overview on various artist tools and materials that urban sketchers will have to familiarize themselves with, aiming to develop and enhance their sketching skills. Readers, novice sketchers, and urban sketchers of various skill levels will find this book as an information source on topics such as line quality, tonal values, perspectives, shades, and shadows, including other elements of art as applied to urban sketching. Readers will find good information in the opening chapter on how urban sketching as an art movement is gaining popularity around the world through the Internet and various social media platforms. The section also highlights information on how urban sketching as a form of hobby is encouraging housewives, students, youths, and ordinary people into becoming urban sketchers themselves. The inclusion of important basic art principles in one chapter will greatly benefit readers, beginners and urban sketchers alike, with ideas and knowledge on how certain objects are being drawn with the intention of gaining unique and personal sketching style. The author's sketching style and techniques using various media will encourage readers to explore the use of other media. Sketches from other international urban sketchers, with their unique and notable sketching styles, are featured in this book to provide readers and sketchers with an array of great and interesting sketches from which to learn and appreciate.

Author Biography

Joe Larano Jr. is a registered architect in the province of British Columbia in Canada. Aside from being a design professional he is also an artist passionate in graphics design, painting, computer 3D modeling, animation and rendering. When Urban Sketching became a worldwide phenomenon, Joe has been in the forefront of Urban Sketching, participating in sketch crawls, indoor and outdoor sketching. He conducts local workshops and has held several demonstration sketching in his locality. He loves to interact with fellow Urban Sketchers and appreciates their sketching works as he admits it as " a one way of improving and enhancing one's sketching skills". The mountains and seas and the plethora of rugged landscapes in the beautiful British Columbia provides colorful and magnificent composition for Joe's Urban Sketching subjects. Joe admits the resurgence of Urban Sketching movement has widely impacted his life. It is for this reason that he became an active Urban Sketcher and pursue the writing of this book.