The month of April at The Addictive Sketcher Movement was Urban Sketching! I have not sketched all 4 pictures of the week, I think I did 3 of them, but I also did quite a lot of urban landscape sketching, 13 in total!
I am struggling a lot with urban sketching. It is not because I am learning perspective and vanishing point, but also because I don’t find nice graphite pencils for building. Or I don’t sketch with a style that look nice on urban sketching. I then decided to follow a Domestika course to learn to use color pencils and did this colourful rack of clothes I already blogged about. I prefer using colour pencils for urban sketching than only graphite pencils. Yet, I still want to learn to find a nice style of urban sketching using graphite or even charcoal.
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Speaking of charcoal, I used, for the first time, charcoal pencils to do the picture of the pedestrian crossing and I enjoyed using them. I need to use charcoal more often as I really like it. Otherwise for the rest of the picture I either used the usual Faber Castell Jumbo 9000 or Daler Rowney colour pencils. For the highlights I used the Tombow mono eraser or this putty kneaded eraser. I used my usual blending stumps to blend the graphite. I think the reason I use blending stumps instead of just hatching or cross hatching in sketches is because I can’t seem to do good hatching techniques. Something I need to learn to do better.
I was on holidays in Wales, so I took the opportunity to take my A5 sketchbook to do some live sketching of a bridge and a church with its graveyard. Other drawings were based on photos either found on the internet (especially for a Sketch A Day prompt) or those provided by Adebanji Alade at The Addictive Sketcher Movement.
