The Urban Sketching Handbook: Reportage and Documentary Drawing: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on

Develop your own creative approach, no matter what your skill level with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Reportage and Documentary Drawing.

The third volume in The Urban Sketching Handbook series, Reportage and Documentary Drawing, is about drawing as a form of journalism or documenting life. This includes drawings events such as parades, music performances, sporting events, speeches, and can include everything from newsworthy political events to simply documenting a day's adventures. It's about being attentive to your surroundings, and telling that story through your sketches.

Artist Veronica Lawlor explains how to use art to find and tell the stories around you. From visual journalism to simply sharing your emotional experience of a place, a reportage illustrator has something to say to their audience. Just as there are all types of written stories to be told, mystery, horror, romance - this volume of The Urban Sketching Handbook series reminds artists, sketchers, doodlers, and illustrators that there are all types of visual stories waiting to be told. And the next step is to go out and tell them!

Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are:

- Observation

- Context

- History

- Ritual

- Understanding

- Storytelling

- Drama

- Documentation

• The Urban Sketching Art Pack: A Guide Book and Sketch Pad for Drawing on Location Around the World--Includes a 112-page paperback book plus 112-page sketchpad
• The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location
• Sketching People: An Urban Sketcher's Manual to Drawing Figures and Faces
• The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective: Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
• The Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color: Techniques for Using Watercolor and Color Media on the Go (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
• The Urban Sketching Handbook: People and Motion: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
• The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
• The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips: Tricks, Techniques, and Handy Hacks for Sketching on the Go (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
• 5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings
• Sketch Now, Think Later: Jump into Urban Sketching with Limited Time, Tools, and Techniques (Urban Sketching Handbooks)