Urban Sketching For Beginners: A Beginner's Guide to Urban Sketching, Including

I'm halfway through this book doing the exercises as I go. I love Liron's explanations, examples, and clear instructions, and tips to get to the next level with your drawing skills.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED. The very basics in order to get off square one which is where I have been stuck. Great book.

Very informative. Really givesgood tips for sketching.

This book is well thought out. Information is spoon fed for easy retention. The author is considerate and encouraging. I have no idea what material of the cover is made of but it feels so nice. LOL I would buy this book again.

I just recently purchased "Urban Sketching for Beginners". I want to say firstly that I purchased 5 books by different authors on drawing. I received this one last, and like they say... save the best for last. Yours was the easiest for me to comprehend on how to draw. The author breaks it down to where it is not overwhelming to this left-brained wannabe artist. I even love the feel of the cover, I find myself just running my hand over the cover of the book because it feels so nice. I normally don't leave feedback here on Amazon, but this book was so awesome that I had to. this time. As soon as I can afford another book, I will be purchasing your other drawing book. Thank you for sharing your awesome talent with us artist wannabes.Brenda Moffett

I am very disappointed with this book. There was no packing receipt in the envelope. There is no publisher or address in the book. Yanconsky must have had it done through a vanity press. The grammar is very bad throughout the book. The examples are weak. He seems to begin a lesson and it goes no where. He writes on the second page, "This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient." Are you kidding me??? I feel like he is just trying to cash in on the Urban Sketching movement without really having the know-how on how to write a book or how to teach sketching. This book needs to be taken off the Amazon site.

This book had too much redundancy and wasted pages saying the same thing over and over. If I would have reviewed this book before buying I probably wouldn't have purchased it. I'm sure though this book may be extremely helpful for others needing this type of learning.

The key word here is "beginners."Yanconsky has developed a book for people who have never drawn before. (That's what he says, not what I'm claiming.)The book has a lot of blank spaces, as in the back of almost every page. Okay, it's not THAT bad, but with all the empty space on the pages, it feels like about half a book.So there is very little help in how to do "urban" sketching. What is offered is good.If you have never drawn before and are wanting to work with an interesting style (see the cover of the book) that is not concerned with looking like a photograph... then you might want to consider this book. On the other hand, don't expect the kind of results Yanconsky gets because his drawing abilities are way beyond "beginner."If you want to learn to HOW draw, go with "You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less" by Mark Kistler. With Kistler's book you have a foundation to draw anything in any style.

This is for beginners and is very informative. Ok for non beginner refresher.

Dá uma visão geral sobre o desenvolvimento de sketches à partir de objetos simples, sombras, perspectiva e uso do material mínimo necessário. O mais importante é o constante incentivo que o autor dá aos interessados em iniciar nessa Arte.

Super bonito de colorear. Era un regalo y quedé muy bien.

I had great expectation from this book, while there it has quite good rating score and on the cover it says "By Bestselling Author", but I couldn't read it to the end.Awful layout as it was done by child in primary school (Times new roman, 13-14 pt, left aligned text) , the same sketches are repeated several times in different chapters, a lot of nearly blank pages (with a line of text or perhaps small sketch - I attached two images of four consecutive pages). A lot of written paragraphs are finished with a phrase: "You know, what I mean", or similar. As the author has nothing smarter to say and wanted to extend book volume.Even sketches are ugly and sometimes wrong drawn. Although I tried hard, I couldn't find any positive thing about this book.Also buying the book to a child is not good idea, too little demonstrations and far too much pointless text about every thing it try to explain, "You know, what I mean"...

Oltre agli insegnamenti tecnici basilari ho trovato interessantissimo l approccio mentale suggerito per una efficace e soddisfacente esperienza di sketching.Validi i numerosi esempi con descrizione delle fasi di sviluppo delle opere.Consigliatissimo.Prodotto arrivato nei tempi previsti e imballaggio perfetto