The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts and Techniques from The Urban Sketching Handbooks--Architecture and Cityscapes, ... (Volume 10) by Shari BlaukopfMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was fantastic. I'm not an urban sketcher (yet, fingers remain crossed) and I was hoping to pick up some quick advice on how to get started. Thus, I turned to Shari Blaukopf's skilled pen and watercolour for some guidance.
There is good here and there is bad (the former outweighing the later quite significantly). The bad is quick and easy to describe: a lack of specificity. Where Blaukopf does a great job of giving overviews, she does not go so far as to give specific recommendations that are personal. The most egregious of these is a lack of clear recommendations for equipment, but this is a more standard trend where the advice is generally too broad for my taste.
This downside, however, is far outweighed by the absolutely gorgeous set of sketches that permeate every page. The best illustration of the concepts discussed are the various drawings by different people, capturing cities and landscapes and buildings across the world. I felt very absorbed in the world of urban sketching, in the flow and feel of what urban sketching can be. This is not always true of art books, and I was very pleased with this one for capturing a broad range.
It's got a lot of heart, and it captures a beautiful feel. Loved it.
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