BOOK

The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides you through the laborious and sometimes complex process of sketching what you see in the built environment so that you can learn to draw what you imagine. Illustrated with hundreds of drawings by students and professionals of cityscapes around Europe and the United States, the book helps you develop your conceptual drawing skills so that you can communicate graphically to represent the built environment.

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Short exercises, projects, drawing tips, step-by-step demonstrations, and composition do's and don'ts make it easy for you to get out into the city and experiment in your own work. Author Michael Abrams uses his experience as a field sketching instructor, to show you that by drawing, you can discover, analyze, and comprehend the built environment.    Routledge Publishing Group, 2014

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Available in Paperback, Hardback, eBook, and in both English and Chinese languages (soon to be in Taiwanese-2020).

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“Trusting the power of passion, Michael Abrams offers each of his readers an indispensable urban companion.”        J. Chaffers, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, University of Michigan

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“Michael Abrams encourages us to slow down, use our eyes, hands, as well as our mind to step outside of ourselves so we can better understand the many diverse strategies that have historically defined and constructed our surroundings.”  Stanley Ira Hallet, Former Dean, Catholic University of America

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Q&A interview with Michael Abrams about his book (click here)