Create depth in your urban sketches by fine-tuning four aspects of your drawing: contrast, color, size, and details. Tips for beginners.

Tips on how to store gouache on Mijello foldable palette, which protects gouache from leaking and drying. Ideal for urban sketching and home

A tutorial on using metallic watercolors together with regular watercolors on black paper for unusual effects in urban sketching

Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 pencils for sketching. Which colors do you need? Combine colored pencils with gouache for expressiveness

Sketching on location: tips and tools for beginners. The benefits of joining an urban sketching group. Useful resources for sketchers.

Get to know your watercolors to create better urban sketches! Watercolor experiments for beginning artists. Simple tricks.

Essential supplies for urban sketching: watercolors, professional brushes, watercolor paper, pocket-sized palettes, fineliners and pencils.

Essential supplies for urban sketching with gouache: paints, brushes, paper and accessories. Recommendations by a professional artist.

This article explains how to mix greens with watercolors, when and how to use pre-made greens, and how to use greenery in urban sketching.