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General drawing and urban sketching books:
The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World
Sketch! The Non-Artist’s Guide to Inspiration, Technique, and Drawing Daily Life
Urban Sketching: The Complete Guide to Techniques
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
Books about perspective drawing and cityscapes:
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective
Perspective Made Easy
The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective
Perspective Made Easy
The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes
Books about working with watercolor:
The Watercolor Artist’s Bible
Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color
Local Color: Seeing Place Through Watercolor
The Complete Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook
For more advanced painters: Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium
The Watercolor Artist’s Bible
Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color
Local Color: Seeing Place Through Watercolor
The Complete Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook
For more advanced painters: Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium
Anthologies featuring other artist sketchbooks or journals for inspiration:
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists
A World of Artist Journal Pages
The Sketchbook Project World Tour
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists
A World of Artist Journal Pages
The Sketchbook Project World Tour
