Group sketch of 360-degree view
My portion of the group panorama:
Gabriel Campanario
illustrator and urban sketcher
Gabriel Campanario
illustrator and urban sketcher
Why I quit fountain pens (for a while) and picked a Bic pen
Earlier in my urban sketching years, I thought I had discovered the holy grail when I saw people drawing with fountain pens. That’s how it’s done, I told myself. Fountain pens, especially those with flexible nibs, create thin and thick…
IKEA scenes sketched with Procreate Pocket app
Here are a couple of sketches I made at IKEA using a Wacom Stylus and the Procreate Pocket app on my iPhone. I took license with the color, going with the company’s signature blue and yellow, instead of the actual…
Fall workshop in Bothell
The Fall Edition of the weekend-long workshop that I started teaching at Cloud 9 Art School in Bothell back in March wrapped up with lots of smiles, including mine! The first day I taught how to break down a complex…
Jumping into a drawing while my friends jump into a lake
Glacials melt directly into this alpine lake in the North Cascades. The water is ice-cold. But that didn’t stop my friends Ahmed and Ben from jumping for a swim after a 5-mile run up to this gorgeous piece of wilderness. I…
Porto. Ponto. A travelogue in ten sketches and twenty-one words.
Red tiles. Blue tiles. Iron bridges. Baroque churches. Towering monuments. Refreshing fountains. Sweet wine. A magic bookstore. Civic pride. Porto. Ponto.
Urban sketching crash course in drizzly Bellingham
All these years in the Pacific Northwest have taught me never to let rain dampen my sketching plans. Unless is cold and windy, there’s always a place to take shelter: an entryway, a store awning, a covered passage. And sometimes…
El Castillo de Montemolín
The Castle of Montemolín, “el castillo” as I’ve called it since I was a kid, is one of more than 300 medieval fortresses embedded in the landscape of Badajoz, the Spanish province where my ancestors hail from. It started as…
Urban Sketching on foot class at the School of Visual Concepts
Had a lot of fun teaching “urban sketching on foot” today with a fantastic group of students. The class was part of the School of Visual Concepts summer program. It was an honor to follow in the footsteps of previous…
Pocket Urban Sketching workshop booklet
The workshop I just taught at #USkPorto2018 was about using a pocket-size notebook for urban sketching. That format may seem small, but there’s a lot you can fit on every spread if you know how to simplify a scene. To…