How to participate

This is a group for all sketchers out there who love to draw the cities they live in or 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.

There are three ways to be part of this community:

1. THE FLICKR GROUP

It is open to anyone willing to participate and follow the group rules:

• You did the drawing on location, not from photos or memory. Adding color or a few details later is fine. On site doesn’t necessarily mean outdoors, you can draw from a coffee shop, pub or grocery store or any other city building. Just make sure the subject is urban. Computer manipulated images are not acceptable.
• The subject of the drawing has to be primarily urban. The word urban comes from the latin urbs, which means city. So drawings here must have city elements: streets, buildings, houses, traffic, city parks, shops, stores, churches… you get the idea.
• Drawings of people are okay as long as they are in an urban setting: walking on a street, at a coffee shop, on the bus, subway or other way of public transportation.
• You should state in what city you did the drawing. Even better, place the drawing on the Flickr map. That would be helpful for other sketchers who may want to draw from the same location when they’re in your city.
• No caricatures, abstract drawings or clearly subjective interpretations of the urban landscape.

2. THE NETWORK

If you have a blog or Flickr set mostly dedicated to urban sketches we would like to link to it from UrbanSketchers.com and you may display our logo on your blog or website, becoming part of a wider network of urban sketchers.

3. THE BLOG

To be a correspondent and blog your drawings at UrbanSketchers dot com you have to be invited by one of the current correspondents and approved by the administrator.

The best way for any of us to see your work is to join the network or Flickr group first.

To contact us send an email to:
urbansketchers at gmail dot com