Category: Art Room

Online Life Drawing Classes and Resources
Online resources for Life Drawing sessions (artistic nudity).

LoveLifeDrawing – 11 Steps to Great Gesture Drawing
This gesture drawing tutorial had some good tips for developing urban sketching people skills

Toby Urban Sketch – People in a Scene
If you only have 15 minutes, try this YT tutorial from Toby Urban Sketch for 4 quick tips.

Random Urban Sketches to end the year
It doesn’t matter what subject or object you draw. It’s all good practice. Here’s a random selection of mine.

2 Urban Sketchers I discovered this month
Here’s a couple of urban sketchers I discovered this month with simple sketching styles

365 Days of Urban Sketch People (Book 1)
The beginning of my 365 Day of Urban Sketching People. Follow along on my journey to master capturing people live.

My Sketch featured in East Algarve Magazine
My sketch of a local wine bar featured in East Algarve Magazine.

Urban Sketch Algarve Exhibition Tavira
My Algarve Urban sketches on show at a Tavira Market exhibition

5 pens go sketching in Coimbra
Even for a quick little getaway, I still pack a sketch book and set of pens. Here’s what I took to Coimbra.
Small Urban Sketching People
Tips, Learnings, and challenges when adding small figures to your urban sketches.
Street Scene – Conceicao
I painted the same scene in two styles—Wobbly urban sketch and precise studio sketch.
First Train Trip to Faro
First train trip to explore Faro and photograph buildings and scenes that inspire me to sketch.

Tekenuurtje Weekly Art Challenge
I joined #tekenuurtje for the first time this week. It’s one of the few Draw This in Your Style challenges that features people.

Featured Artist in Relish Portugal Magazine
I am the featured article in this quarter’s magazine Relish Portugal. Check out my contribution here.

One Week 100 People 2022 Sketch Challenge
March 8-12, 2021 – Pandemic Relief Edition! I love sketching people in ink, and this annual sketching event #OneWeek100People was made…

Sketcher Spotlight: Suhita Shirodkar
My Sketcher Spotlight on urban sketcher Suhita Shirodkar, and a review of her figure sketching class.

The Launch of Sylvie Sunshine
I introduced Sylvie Sunshine in my guest post for Romancing the Genres, and after getting some positive feedback from fellow…
Swing in the Park
Sketching at a Sunday concert series in Santa Monica with The California Feetwarmers.
Urban Sketching Podcast: Sneaky Art
Looking for a quality podcast about urban sketching?

Forget Technical and Get Creative with your Watercolours
How not to get overwhelmed with TMI about the technical side of watercolour.
People Sketches: May
A collection of people I’ve encountered and sketched during my walks around Culver City in May.
Blind Contour Portraits May
Blind Contour Sketches for my 365 days of portrait and people sketches

Why Art Challenges are a Good Idea
Art Challenges are a good idea, because you never know where they will lead you.

Urban Sketching – How to Draw People
Here’s two key elements to master when you’re drawing groups of people in an urban sketch.