Drawing pictures to represent our lives appears to be a trait shared by all people that dates back to the first cavemen. Undoubtedly, the practices of urban sketching have been in existence even before the invention of the phrase or label "urban sketching." Urban sketching essentially means sketching on location. Rather than drawing from reference material, such as photos, inside a studio or house, for example, urban sketching is the activity of sketching from life on location. Urban sketching often concentrates on the architecture or street sceneries, but they can also depict individuals at cafés, on their everyday commutes, or in any other situation. Urban sketching is defined as the practice of creating an image from life outside of a studio. Urban sketching differs from the practice of sketching on location, which artists have engaged in for decades (or centuries), in a subtle way that may be expressing a story with the sketch. Urban sketching is really popular right now, and for good reason. In this book you'll learn: