Books in the Urban Sketching Handbooks series

Working with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series, focuses on expressive on-location use of color.

Improve your on-location sketching with 101 Sketching Tips.

Urban sketcher Mike Daikubara gives beginners a crash course in location sketching that you can use in any city or town in Sketch Now, Think Later.

Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing with a Tablet presents step-by-step instruction on how to draw with a tablet on location.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: People and Motion provides keys to help make the experience of drawing human forms and their movements fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners guides artists to build a strong foundation in observational drawing and painting to establish an urban sketching practice.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive People helps artists develop skills and confidence to overcome the challenges of drawing people on the go, introducing and applying useful tips and techniques.

Get great techniques, tips, and ideas from the Urban Sketching Handbook series in one place! With this thorough guide, discover how to sketch architecture and cityscapes, plus people and motion; learn drawing perspective; and see how easy it is to add color to artwork.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Lighthelps urban sketchers develop the skills they need to capture and express different kinds of light, both natural and artificial, in both day and night scenes.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Color First, Ink Later presents a unique method for working with watercolor on the go-painting first, then adding sketch lines in ink-by Mike Daikubara, the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Sketch Now, Think Later.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Spotlight on Nature demonstrates how to make the most of nature in on-location drawings and paintings.