Tate: Sketch Club Urban Drawing

(Paperback)

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Urban sketching has become one of the biggest art trends of the last decade, with artists preferring to capture a scene on location rather than relying on a photograph. Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, Sketch Club: Urban Drawing is your essential guide to putting your drawing skills into practice on location. You'll learn how to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes.

Packed with all the energy and inspiration of a drawing group, this is the ideal book for anyone looking to take their urban drawing further. Perfect your urban drawing skills and develop your own unique style with professional urban sketcher, Phil Dean.

Chapters include:

- Loosening Up

- Building a Scene

- Adding Contrast

- Taking it Further

- Finishing Touches

Author Bio

Phil Dean is an artist and graphic designer based in London. He graduated from Leeds College of Art with a degree in Graphic Design, before moving down to London, where he now runs his own creative agency. Phil also runs a hugely popular Instagram account, The Shoreditch Sketcher, where he posts stunning urban sketches from around the world, and leads urban sketching workshops in London for a variety of experience levels.

@shoreditchsketcher

www.theshoreditchsketcher.com

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