Urban sketching is about recording great stories in our sketchbooks! And what better way to tell a story than by the people that live them. Thanks to the Urban Sketchers Liguria, Genova will be full of sketchers, workshops and exhibitions from the 22nd to the 30th of June. My contribution to the event is a people sketching workshop in Mercato Orientale.

In the Local Markets, Great People sketching workshop, we will see the Mercato Orientale from the viewpoint of the great people working and living in it. We will focus on generic people sketching, close-up features, postures and actions, and architecture as a stage for the people’s stories.
Whether they are the local grocer, the coffee maker, the kids playing or the granma shopping, all stories matter, if we aim to tell the stories of the world, one sketch at a time.

The goals of the workshop are to:

• Learn how to quickly capture a crowd of people in an urban (indoors or outdoors) setting;

• Master simple techniques to portray a close-up person, with few lines and/or watercolor shading;

• Use sketching as a way to observe small quick interactions and behaviors between people;

• Simplify the architecture in your sketch, to make the built environment work to the advantage of your story, where people are the main focus.