Urban Sketchers is a nonprofit in the state of Washington (USA) that is organizing the world’s illustrators. They tell it like this: “In 2007, a global community of urban sketchers began to form when Seattle-based journalist and illustrator Gabriel Campanario created an online forum ‘for all sketchers out there who love to draw the cities where they live and visit, from the window of their homes, from a cafe, at a park, standing by a street corner… always on location, not from photos or memory.’
A year later, Campanario invited a group of sketchers to share their drawings and storytelling in a blog, Urban Sketchers, where readers could ‘See the World, One Drawing at a Time.’ The blog helped the community gain visibility and inspired drawing enthusiasts from all over to sketch in the spirit of this manifesto:
1. We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation.
2. Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live and where we travel.
3. Our drawings are a record of time and place.
4. We are truthful to the scenes we witness.
5. We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles.
6. We support each other and draw together.
7. We share our drawings online.
8. We show the world, one drawing at a time.”
Are you a sketcher?
Newspaper illustrator Gabriel Campanario founded the Urban Sketchers organization in 2007…
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