If you do enough Urban Sketching, no matter how hard you try to avoid them, eventually you are going to find yourself drawing people. People are hard. No way to soften the blow, I am afraid.

That's when sketchers lay their drawings on the ground for all to see. And if you're still not sure, just pencil it in and draw your own conclusions. "It's just total fun," Goldenberg said.

A sketch captures a memory of people and places in a way that a photograph never can," says Annette Morris, watercolour artist and education director at Urban Sketchers, a global community founded ...

Then they go home, scan or photograph their drawings, and post them to a special Flickr account. The event is free and absolutely anyone can join in. A typical event will draw 20-60 people. On the one ...

When Shruti Vijay’s husband started studying at Northwestern, she took up urban sketching in Evanston as a hobby. Now, Vijay’s artwork has become a staple of the community, and she has been ...

What HE ENJOYS ABOUT sketching: “I like the fact that the people I’m drawing don’t know that I’m drawing them. It’s almost voyeuristic, but, of course, with the superhero outfits, they ...

Urban sketching is all about, as you might guess, drawing on-location. It's a popular passion - the group Urban Sketchers operates all around the world, first created by Seattle Times journalist ...

Ahead of Sketcher Fest Edmonds this weekend, some drawers shared their takes on local sites and what inspires them.

The international art organization calling themselves ‘Urban Sketchers.’ Kansas City created its own chapter in 2017. “We started out with just a couple people, got our Facebook page ...

Capturing the city in two dimensions is a multisensory exercise in the art of looking at a place I only thought I knew.