Sketching fast-moving streetcars from the book The Art of Urban Sketching by Gabriel Campanario

This Wednesday Craftside Giveaway Day is brought to you by the book The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World. To get yourself in the running to score a copy of this book, simply answer one of the following questions:

Where, When, How, What do you sketch?

Leave your answer in today's comment section by Midnight ET on Wednesday, February 15, 2012.

(I sketch mostly in the evenings while reading craft books and magazines, but I always have a little sketch book in my purse for when an idea comes to me on the go!)

I can't say I have ever tried to sketch something in motion so I thought you all might like to see this little tidbit on how to sketch fast-moving streetcars featured in the book The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World.

Click on this page to enlarge and read how to draw a streetcar in motion.

More about the Quarry book:

The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World

by

Gabriel Campanario

The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. Authored by the founder of the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), this beautiful, 320-page volume explains urban sketching within the context of a long historical tradition and how it is being practiced today. You'll find more than 600 beautiful, contemporary illustrations, as well as artists' profiles and extended captions where these urban sketchers share their stories, how they work, sketching tips, and the tools behind each drawing. With sketches and observations from more than 50 cities in more than 30 countries, this book offers a visually arresting, storytelling take on urban life from different cultures and artistic styles, as well as insight into various drawing techniques and mediums.

Gabriel Campanario is a staff artist at The Seattle Times and the founder of Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. Campanario’s newspaper column, Seattle Sketcher, was awarded first place for blog writing in “The Best of the West” journalism contest. A native Spaniard, Campanario moved to the U.S. in 1998 and has lived near Seattle with his wife and two children since 2006. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and his journalism career spans two decades, working for newspapers in Barcelona, Lisbon, California, and Virginia. 

 

 

Comments

[Sheila Johnston]

Hi:

Like you, I often draw or sketch in the evening.I may be too tired to work on a larger project, but sketching fills that need to still do something arty. Also, my partner likes to watch television, but I find I need something to occupy my hands and brain or I get very bored.

[Birgit]

I usually sketch -- or rather doodle -- faces while talking on the phone. :)

Happy creating,
Birgit

[Carmen]

I usually sketch in the evening, when the younger children are in bed and my eldest and hubby are watching something together on TV. It relaxes me and I am trying to do at least 10 minutes a day. As for what I sketch - various things, am doing a lot of cartoons of myself lately, sounds very big headed but is really just me practising. I also draw things around me - cups etc. My other sketchbooks I use for online classes so are on various subjects and am enjoying trying to create zombies and monsters at the moment too - that's in another sketchbook again. (for some reason I have to keep all the little things separate!)

[mary Mac]

I sketch if you call it that in my craft room. I make my own cards and will sketch them out before I start cutting them out.

[rozzafly]

what my kid wrote:
I dread the passage of time and am saddened by my grandfather's decline into dementia. So I sit in public spaces and draw the faces of elders around me. Making quick contour sketches, I render the physical years and layers of time. Capturing these moments eases my fear of change and the inevitability of death. It helps me understand my grandfather's demise differently.