ROVING JAY

A review of the Hahnemühle Watercolour Book, which is ideal for urban sketching.

The first 32 people sketches for this year’s One Week 100 People.

Read about art classes, events, and other Algarve resources.

Need motivation to sketch people? Join the 2023 One Week 100 People sketching challenge in March.

Our urban sketch postcard series featured on the Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve website

Here’s how I experimented to reduce the greens in my travel palette from 3 to 1.

Get inspired by the World of Urban Sketching – a new book by Stephanie Bower. Full of sketcher’s insights and great drawings.

How adjusting your sketch speed or where you hold your pen helps you find your sketching style

If you can’t get out and sketch, Sketching People from Travel Photos is a great alternative. Especially when you review your sketches to learn from them.

Online resources for Life Drawing sessions (artistic nudity).

This gesture drawing tutorial had some good tips for developing urban sketching people skills

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

It doesn’t matter what subject or object you draw. It’s all good practice. Here’s a random selection of mine.

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

The beginning of my 365 Day of Urban Sketching People. Follow along on my journey to master capturing people live.

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

My Algarve Urban sketches on show at a Tavira Market exhibition

Even for a quick little getaway, I still pack a sketch book and set of pens. Here’s what I took to Coimbra.

Tips, Learnings, and challenges when adding small figures to your urban sketches.

I painted the same scene in two styles—Wobbly urban sketch and precise studio sketch.

First train trip to explore Faro and photograph buildings and scenes that inspire me to sketch.

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

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

We discovered Fabrica by accident during a cycle ride between Cabanas and Manta Rota