Article · Urban Sketch Course
How to Simplify Busy Street Sketches
By Ian Fennelly
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Gives concrete strategies for taming chaotic street scenes: pick one strong focal structure, suggest secondary elements with gesture and color splashes instead of full detail, restrict to 3-4 colors, and deliberately drop transient clutter like traffic.
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