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

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.

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

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

A recap of my first urban sketching event with the Algarve group at the Tavira Market

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

I introduced Sylvie Sunshine in my guest post for Romancing the Genres, and after getting some positive feedback from fellow…

Sketching at a Sunday concert series in Santa Monica with The California Feetwarmers.

How not to get overwhelmed with TMI about the technical side of watercolour.

A collection of people I’ve encountered and sketched during my walks around Culver City in May.

A collection of people I’ve encountered and sketched during my walks around Culver City in April.

I thought this local hiking trail would be good exercise. Turns out it’s good for creativity too.

Watercolour and pen self-portrait with a face mask.

I stumbled across drawing these beach bum illustrations. It’s the start of a whimsical and joyful journey. Where will it lead?

It took us nearly a full day (with flight times and layovers) to get from Istanbul to Siem Reap and much as I need to sleep I just couldn’t, but somehow Red manages to always get his head down and recharge his batteries.

Introduction to the volume of videos featuring Drawing with Alphonso Dunn. Learn Pen & Ink Sketching with Alponso Dunn. He has created lots of free instructional videos on You Tube and I’ve included the links here.