Sketch · Connect · Celebrate
AsiaLink Sketchwalk Pune 2026
19 – 22 November 2026 · Pune, India
Registration Open 4th July 10 AM (IST)
Registration
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All Access Pass
₹8,000 + 18% GST
3 hrs
3 hrs
1 hr
Guided walks · Sketch Hunt · Lectures · Goodie bag · Ceremonies · Bus shuttle
Experience Pass
₹ 6,000 + 18% GST
🎨 1 Workshop
Not included
3 hrs
1 hr
Guided walks · Sketch Hunt · Lectures · Goodie bag · Ceremonies · Bus shuttle
Explorer Pass
₹3,000 + 18% GST
🎨 1 Workshop
Not included
🌆 1 Cultural Experience
Not included
1 hr
Guided walks · Sketch Hunt · Lectures · Goodie bag · Ceremonies · Bus shuttle
In every pass
🚶 Guided Sketch Walks
🔍 Sketch Hunt
🎤 Lectures
🎁 Goodie Bag
🎉 Opening Ceremony
🎉 Closing Ceremony
🚌 Hop-on Hop-off Bus
📋 Cancellation Policy
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Festival Timetable
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Schedule
AsiaLink Sketchwalk
PUNE
nov 19–22, 2026
Registration Starts
(3pm Onwards)
Opening Ceremony
(5pm – 7pm)
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Morning Briefing (9am) |
Morning Briefing (9am) |
Morning Briefing (9am) |
09.00 | ||||||
Lectures 9.15am – 10.15am |
Guided Sketchwalks 9.15am – 10.15am |
Lectures 9.15am – 10.15am |
Guided Sketchwalks 9.15am – 10.15am |
Lectures 9.15am – 10.15am |
Guided Sketchwalks 9.15am – 10.15am |
10.00 | ||||
Workshops
10.30am – 1.30pm
W1 – Less is More
W2 – Pulse of the Bazaar
W3 – Main Street Story
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Cultural Experience
10.30am – 1.30pm
E1 – Vintage Motoring Heritage: The Yohan Poonawalla Collection
E3 – Draped Histories: Sarees, Stories & Sketches
E5 – Parsi Heritage: A Wedding Meal Experience
E6 – Tambat Ali: Copper Craft Heritage
E7 – The Crisp & the Sacred
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Demos
10.30am – 11.30am
D3 – Sculpting Depth: Street Perspective with Transparent Color and Shadow
D5 – Urban Sketching With Watercolour & Watercolour Pencils
12.30pm – 1.30pm
D4 – Scenery and Fun Layout with Distorted Eyes
D1 – Urban Impressions: Sketching with Waterproof Color Inks
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Workshops
10.30am – 1.30pm
W3 – Main Street Story
W4 – Calligraphy Sketches
W5 – People at Work
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Cultural Experience
10.30am – 1.30pm
E1 – Vintage Motoring Heritage: The Yohan Poonawalla Collection
E4 – Saree Bazaar: Drapes, Textiles & Street Stories
E5 – Parsi Heritage: A Wedding Meal Experience
E6 – Tambat Ali: Copper Craft Heritage
E7 – The Crisp & the Sacred
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Demos
10.30am – 11.30am
D4 – Scenery and Fun Layout with Distorted Eyes
D2 – Illustrative Approach to Urban Sketching
12.30pm – 1.30pm
D3 – Sculpting Depth: Street Perspective with Transparent Color and Shadow
D12 – Gouache On The Go
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Workshops
10.30am – 1.30pm
W1 – Less is More
W3 – Main Street Story
W5 – People at Work
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Cultural Experience
10.30am – 1.30pm
E1 – Vintage Motoring Heritage: The Yohan Poonawalla Collection
E8 – Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum: Dance, Artifacts & Living Interpretation
E9 – Architecture in Motion: Dance, Space & Heritage Interpretation
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Demos
10.30am – 11.30am
D6 – Spray First, Ask Later!
D10 – How to Observe and Simplify Nature in Urban Scenes
D8 – Perfection with Alcoholic Markers
D12 – Gouache On The Go
12.30pm – 1.30pm
D11 – City Sketching with Broad Strokes Pencil
D9 – It's Your Own Perspective!
D7 – See & Sketch: Visual Journaling
D5 – Urban Sketching With Watercolour & Watercolour Pencils
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11.00 | |
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| Lunch Break (1.30pm – 2.30pm) | 02.00 | |||||||||
Workshops
2.30pm – 5.30pm
W2 – Pulse of the Bazaar
W4 – Calligraphy Sketches
W5 – People at Work
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Cultural Experience
2.30pm – 5.30pm
E1 – Vintage Motoring Heritage: The Yohan Poonawalla Collection
E2 – Draped Stories: Wear, Pose & Sketch
E4 – Saree Bazaar: Drapes, Textiles & Street Stories
E6 – Tambat Ali: Copper Craft Heritage
E10 – Pune Handmade Paper: Craft, Process & Material Exploration
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Demos
2.30pm – 3.30pm
D6 – Spray First, Ask Later!
D8 – Perfection with Alcoholic Markers
4.30pm – 5.30pm
D7 – See & Sketch: Visual Journaling
D2 – Illustrative Approach to Urban Sketching
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Workshops
2.30pm – 5.30pm
W1 – Less is More
W2 – Pulse of the Bazaar
W4 – Calligraphy Sketches
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Cultural Experience
2.30pm – 5.30pm
E1 – Vintage Motoring Heritage: The Yohan Poonawalla Collection
E3 – Draped Histories: Sarees, Stories & Sketches
E6 – Tambat Ali: Copper Craft Heritage
E8 – Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum: Dance, Artifacts & Living Interpretation
E10 – Pune Handmade Paper: Craft, Process & Material Exploration
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Demos
2.30pm – 3.30pm
D11 – City Sketching with Broad Strokes Pencil
D1 – Urban Impressions: Sketching with Waterproof Color Inks
4.30pm – 5.30pm
D10 – How to Observe and Simplify Nature in Urban Scenes
D9 – It's Your Own Perspective!
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Sketchbook Baithak
2.30pm – 3.30pm
Group Photo at 4pm
Closing Ceremony
(5pm – 7pm)
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| Night Sketching 6.30pm onwards |
Drink & Draw 6.30pm onwards |
Night Sketching 6.30pm onwards |
Drink & Draw 6.30pm onwards |
06.00 | ||||||
| 07.00 | ||||||||||
| Art Market: 10.00am – 6.00pm | Hop On-Hop Off Bus: 10.00am – 5.00pm | Art Market: 10.00am – 3.00pm | Bus Service: 10.00am – 5.00pm | |||||||||
Morning · 10:30am – 1:30pm
The Workshop Pass grants access to premium 3-hour learning experiences led by internationally and nationally reputed urban sketching instructors. Conducted entirely on location and not from photographs, these immersive sessions offer participants deep engagement with both the instructor and the environment. Through guided exercises and process led teaching, sketchers build skills in observation, interpretation, and visual storytelling while developing their own artistic voice.
W1 - Less is more
Instructor Name: Inhong Park
20 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm) | 21 Nov 2026 (2.30pm – 5.30pm) | 22 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm)
About The Artist
I am a full-time urban sketch artist and instructor based in South Korea. I travel to cities around the world, capturing everyday life through sketching and sharing my approach through workshops and live demonstrations. My teaching focuses on simplifying complex scenes and helping artists discover that sometimes, less is more.
Selected Experience
2023 AsiaLink Instructor | 2024-2025 AsiaLink Global Brand Demonstrator | 2024 & 2026 Urban Sketchers Symposium Instructor | 2024 & 2025 Urban Sketchers Hong Kong | Workshop Instructor |2026 Urban Sketchers Oslo Workshop Instructor
Workshop Description :
When doing urban sketching, we often try to draw everything we see. But when we give the same attention to every part of the scene, the sketch can look busy and the main subject can get lost. The theme of this workshop is “Less Is More.” You will learn how to choose only the most important parts of a scene and use empty space to create a stronger sense of mood and depth. You will also learn how to use foreground elements to create a stronger sense of depth and distance in your sketches. Through short drawing exercises, you will discover that drawing less can actually show more, and your sketches will become clearer, simpler, and more expressive.
Materials Required for the Workshop
. Pencils and erasers
· Fountain pen (pigment ink) or pigment pen (0.5)
. Watercolor tool set
. Sketchbook (portrait) or paper
· White gel pen
W2 - Pulse of the Bazaar – Sketching the City Through Its People
Instructor Name: Marina Grechanik
20 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm) & (2.30pm – 5.30pm) | 21 Nov 2026 (2.30pm – 5.30pm)
About The Artist
Marina Grechanik is an artist, freelance illustrator, and art educator based in Ra’anana, Israel. She graduated from an art academy in Belarus and regularly participates in art exhibitions and local illustration and art events. An active Urban Sketchers community member from its earliest days, Marina has taught at multiple international symposiums and initiated the USk Tel Aviv group, regularly leading sketchcrawls and curating group exhibitions. For her, urban sketching is about
finding stories in everyday life and capturing them spontaneously: “A sketchbook and a simple pen ; that is all you need to go on a journey every day. Drawing is seeing, so you just need to open your eyes wider and start to sketch!”
Workshop Description :
Set in one of Pune’s vibrant markets, this workshop invites participants to overcome the fear of sketching people and dive into the lively rhythm of everyday life. Among vendors, shoppers, colors, and movement, we’ll explore quick, expressive ways to capture people in action ; embracing “imperfect” sketches and enjoying the process.
Material List
. Some shape – drawing tools you like – brush marker, paint brush, crayons, watercolour
. Small sketchbook with cheap paper for the two first exercises.
. Bigger sketchbook with quality paper for the last exercise
· White gel pen
W3 - Main Street Story
Instructor Name: Rob Sketcherman
20 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm) | 21 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm) | 22 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm)
About The Artist
Happiest when capturing colorful, people-filled scenes, Rob Sketcherman is known for the dynamic lines and vivid colors of his iPad urban sketches. A self-taught artist inspired by comic books, he switched to a fully digital workflow in 2014 using an iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate. An active member of the Urban Sketchers community since 2015, he serves as an administrator of Urban Sketchers Hong Kong and was the host of USkTalks during the pandemic. Rob has been part of the
USk Education Committee since 2018, serves on the Advisory Board, and has taught at multiple Urban Sketchers Symposiums and workshops worldwide.
Workshop Description :
Learn quick ways to capture all kinds of elements at a location, then compose them into a montage of variety and detail that encapsulates the energy and story of a place. Storefronts, signage, auto rickshaws, bustling street vendors and sauntering crowds will all play a role as we hunt and ‘collect’ the elements that tell the story of the day. We will look at how to layer a story, focusing on the flavor of the main act, and working out how supporting elements spice things up. Then we’ll look at how to plan all these elements in your composition before you start your final piece: a fascinating
montage that draws the eye around the page in rich visual storytelling.
Material List
. A sketch pad for rougher work
. Nice paper for your final piece(s)
. Paint (Low priority)
. A few colored markers
. Some color pencils
. A blue pencil
. A variety of waterproof ink
pens of various widths
W4 - Calligraphy Sketches
Instructor Name: Sanjeev Joshi
20 Nov 2026 (2.30pm – 5.30pm) | 21 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm) & (2.30pm – 5.30pm)
About The Artist
Architect by profession, I enjoy conducting workshops. I believe that doing what you preach is important. I enjoy showing by actually sketching as a demo. Leading by example is the best way to teach. I would like to introduce the stylizing part of sketching by using calligraphy in sketches.
I was invited participant in BIENNALE DU CARNET DE VOYAGE at France in 2010, Instructor at Symposium in Singapore in 2015
Instructor for Asia Link Sketch Walk Kuching, Malaysia, 2017 Instructor at ALSW Suwon in 2023
I have exhibited in group and solo exhibitions of sketches/paintings. Indulgence in calligraphy too. Experience of conducting more than 20 workshops.
Workshop Description :
The use of written text, as an element of composition in Urban sketching is very important while doing travel sketches and local sketching too. Journaling requires art of writing in any type of sketch. This workshop will aim at improving the sketch journaling skills. In this workshop, participants will learn to compose their sketches, by using calligraphic notes as an integral part of the sketch. Participants will realize that it helps to be in the ‘Moment, while consciously observing and imagining visual notes, to be graphically included in the sketch.
Material List
. Watercolor
. Crayons
. Coloured ink
. Coloured pencils
. Brushes
. Water container
W5 - People at Work: Using Vignettes to tell Stories
Instructor Name: Suhita Shirodkar
20 Nov 2026 (2.30pm – 5.30pm) | 21 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm) | 22 Nov 2026 (10.30am – 1.30pm)
About The Artist
Suhita Shirodkar is a visual storyteller and an educator who has been an active member of Urban Sketchers for over 15 years, and has taught at numerous Symposiums.
She teaches on-location and reportage sketching workshops all year round and specializes in conveying energy and movement in her sketches. She lived in Mumbai, Goa, and Bangalore before moving to California where she now resides.
Workshop Description :
This workshop focuses on telling people-centric stories through vignettes. It teaches how to choose interesting subjects, eliminate visual chaos, and compose sketches with clarity and focus. To draw people, we will focus on capturing character and actions through features and gestures.Learning Goals:
In this workshop, we will learn:
. To draw people
. To choose gestures, postures and accessories that best speak to the person and their story.
. To simplify and compose vignettes that highlight a people and their trade and their environment without visual overload.
Material List
. A sketchbook that can handle wet and dry media
. Drawing tools: Pencil and pen with waterproof ink
. Watercolour and coloured pencil
The Experience Pass grants access to curated 3-hour small-group immersive sessions that connect participants with the spirit and identity of the host city through heritage, craft, food, local traditions, and storytelling. Designed as experiential offerings beyond conventional sightseeing, these sessions foster meaningful cultural engagement, community building, and richer sketchbook storytelling.
E1 - Vintage Motoring Heritage: The Yohan Poonawalla Collection
Private Collection Visit
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub in Pune.
Explore one of India’s most remarkable private vintage car collections, owned by Yohan Poonawalla. This experience offers a rare, up-close sketching opportunity within an extraordinary lineup of classic automobiles, combining design, history, and visual richness.
What You’ll Experience
- Exclusive access to a private vintage car collection
- Dedicated time for on-site sketching
- Up-close sketching amid polished vintage classics
- Stories behind iconic automobiles and their eras
E2 - Draped Stories: Wear, Pose & Sketch
Pop-Up Sketch Studio
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub.
Experience a lively pop-up sketching space inspired by the textiles, attire, colours, and social atmosphere of Pune. Designed as an immersive creative environment, this interactive session invites participants to engage with regional drapes, traditional styling, accessories, and sketching through a relaxed and visually rich setting.
What You’ll Experience
- Regional drapes, traditional styling, regional headgear, and layered textiles on display and available to try
- An immersive experience where environment, people, fashion, and interaction become part of the sketching experience
A playful slice of Pune through colour, atmosphere, observation, and visual storytelling
E3 - Draped Histories: Sarees, Stories & Sketches
Private Heritage Visit
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub in Pune.
An immersive sketching experience exploring the relationship between regional saree traditions and the cultural histories of Western India. Set within a carefully chosen heritage space, participants encounter sarees not simply as garments, but as reflections of trade, craft, identity, movement, ritual, and everyday life across generations.
What You’ll Experience
- Textile and saree storytelling rooted in the cultural histories of Western India
- Styled drapes, live models, and immersive heritage surroundings for observation and sketching
- A visual journey through clothing, architecture, atmosphere, and everyday cultural memory
E4 - Saree Bazaar: Drapes, Textiles & Street Stories
Local Commerce
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub in Pune.
Explore one of Pune’s traditional textile and saree districts through an immersive encounter with colour, fabric, and everyday market life. The experience offers a close view of how sarees continue to shape culture, identity, and daily expression in India. Moving through curated textile and saree spaces, participants engage with regional drapes, fabrics, and styling traditions within a vibrant street setting.
What You’ll Experience
- Guided exploration of Pune’s traditional saree and textile district
- Introduction to regional sarees, fabrics, and draping traditions
- Saree draping and styling happening around you, with the option to try
- Observational sketching within a lively market environment
- Engagement with textiles, craft, and everyday cultural practices
E5 - Parsi Heritage: A Wedding Meal Experience
Heritage Street & Culinary Sketching
Accessibility: Short walking distance from the festival hub.
Explore the heritage and everyday life of one of India’s distinctive communities through a rare, immersive experience in Pune. This journey combines street context, lived heritage spaces, and a traditional Parsi wedding-style meal, offering rich opportunities for observation and sketching within a living cultural environment.
What You’ll Experience
- Guided exploration of a historic street and its cultural context
- Visit to a 150-year-old kitchen still in active use
- Access to a historic Zoroastrian home and its surroundings
- Sketching opportunities across street, kitchen, and heritage spaces
- A traditional Parsi wedding-style meal served on a banana leaf, each guest individually served
- Stories, traditions, and cultural context of the Parsi community
E6 - Tambat Ali: Copper Craft Heritage
Living Urban Craft Ecosystem
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub in Pune.
An immersive encounter with Tambat Ali, Pune’s historic metalworking quarter, rooted in the city’s Peshwa-era craft heritage. The locality continues to sustain one of the region’s oldest living traditions of copper and brass utensil making, shaped through generations of maker households and workshops. Participants enter a living craft cluster where production is intertwined with everyday life.
What You’ll Experience
- Walk through Tambat Ali, Pune’s historic metalworking district
- Enter working artisan spaces producing copper and brass utensils
- Observe live metal shaping, hammering, and finishing processes
- Engage with makers in their active production environments
Experience the rhythm of a neighbourhood shaped by continuous craft practice
E7 - The Crisp & the Sacred
Family Food Enterprise
Accessibility: Short walking distance from the festival hub.
Some things in a city become more than what they are. Step into the production world of one of Pune’s most quietly beloved snack enterprises, a family run operation that has been slicing, seasoning, and perfecting the same product for decades, woven into the everyday life of a city and eaten by generations who never needed to be told twice. Here, devotion and daily work share the same unhurried air.
What You’ll Experience
- An iconic production floor, unchanged for decades
- Conversations with the family, their story, their Pune
- The quiet devotional rhythm woven into the working day
- Snacks eaten warm, straight from the batch
- A living piece of Pune’s food culture, up close
E8 - Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum: Dance, Artifacts & Living Interpretation
Interactive Performance & Heritage Interpretation
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub in Pune.
A unique artistic encounter within the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum in Pune, home to one of India’s most distinctive collections of traditional objects, artifacts, and everyday material culture assembled by Dr. Dinkar G. Kelkar. The experience brings together live classical dance interpretation and museum artefacts within a shared visual and performative setting. Participants witness a collaboration between the Rasika Gomaste ensemble and the museum collection, where movement becomes a medium for interpreting heritage objects and traditional material culture.
What You’ll Experience
- Entry into selected galleries of the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum
- Live classical dance performance interpreting museum artifacts
- Sketching of dancers in motion within the museum setting
- Sketching of selected artifacts within curated displays
- A performance-led understanding of traditional material culture
E9 - Architecture in Motion: Dance, Space & Heritage Interpretation
Interactive Performance & Architectural Interpretation
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub.
A unique artistic encounter set within a historic heritage venue in Pune, where architecture becomes the foundation for live interpretive performance. The experience brings together movement, spatial history, and built form through a site-responsive dance intervention created in dialogue with the venue’s architectural character. Participants witness a performance that responds to the scale, rhythm, and materiality of the space, offering a layered understanding of architecture through movement and observation.
What You’ll Experience
- Access to a historic heritage venue and its architectural setting
- Live dance performance responding to the built environment
- Observation of architectural details, spatial rhythms, and historic elements
A performance-led understanding of architecture and spatial heritage
E10 - Pune Handmade Paper: Craft, Process & Material Exploration
Paper Craft & Material Production
Accessibility: Located outside walking distance; curated group transport is provided from the festival hub.
An immersive encounter with Pune’s long-standing handmade paper tradition, centred around the Pune Handmade Paper Factory near the historic Agriculture College campus. The experience offers insight into the transformation of recycled material into handcrafted paper through processes that combine labour, craft knowledge, and material experimentation. Participants move through the paper-making environment, observing stages of pulping, pressing, drying, and finishing while engaging with paper as both a craft material and a surface for artistic practice.
What You’ll Experience
- Visit to the Pune Handmade Paper Factory and surrounding institutional context
- Observation of handmade paper production processes
- Introduction to techniques of pulping, pressing, drying, and finishing
- Interaction with handmade paper as an artistic material
This Pass grants access to 1-hour live on location artist demonstrations, where accomplished sketchers showcase their techniques, process, and creative decision making while sketching directly from life in real time. These sessions provide participants with accessible inspiration and insight into diverse approaches to capturing a scene on location.
D1 - Urban Impressions: Sketching with Waterproof Color Inks
Artist: Alka Rode
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (10.00am – 11.00am), 21 Nov 2026 (11.30am – 12.30pm)
About The Artist
She has 40 years experience as a professional Graphic Designer in the advertising field. Lately she created large size installations and murals for various corporate clients. Her expertise in graphic softwares has helped train many students over the years. Teaching is one of her passions and she is associated with various colleges as a lecturer. She has worked on hundreds of Architectural presentation drawings.
Sanvedana was her solo painting show and at Balgandhrva Kala Dalan had great response and recent Thread Story at Raja Ravi Varma Art Gallery in Pune and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, a solo curated show well appreciated. ‘East -West’ one month show of her paintings at Dijon, France.
She has been an urban sketcher for the last 8 years. She has participated in the Amsterdam Urban Sketchers symposium 2019 and Asia Link Sketch walk in Suwon, Korea 2023.
Demo Description :
Sketching on the spot is an enjoyable experience. I use waterproof artist’s inks. Composition is focusing on one particular area, keeping the rest of the part with less detail and leaving some parts incomplete deliberately and merging in the background (paper white). As a graphic designer I enjoy white space in the composition. I apply washes as per to maintain desired composition Colour inks are bright and dark compared to water colours. Inks are not very user friendly. Use inks if you want to make your sketch vibrant and colourful.
D2 - Illustrative approach to Urban Sketching
Artist: Aparna Hegde
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (10.00am – 11.00am), 21 Nov 2026 (11.30am – 12.30pm)
About The Artist
Aparna is an animator and illustrator from Bengaluru India. After working with digital media for years, she started to participate in USK sketch meets as a way to reconnect with traditional art and also to explore the city she lives in. She loves to have fun with colour in her sketches and is always looking stories and moments that can be captured in her sketches.
Demo Description :
In this session, rather than focusing on realistic portrayals, we will look at ways to convey our point of view and the story we want to tell. By planning our compositions, looking at what and how to exaggerate what we see. We will embrace making messes and breaking the rules, using limited colour palettes to achieve a sketch that is uniquely ours.
Aparna’s Demo Material :
Gouache – Titanium White, Viridian, Burnt Sienna, Scarlet, Yellow Ochre, Primary Yellow, Ultra marine.
D3 - Sculpting Depth: Street Perspective with Transparent Color and Shadow
Artist: JEONG, SEUNG BIN (90gram)
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (11.30am – 12.30pm), 21 Nov 2026 (3.00pm – 4.00pm)
About The Artist
Seungbin Jeong (90gram) is a travel-drawing artist and urban sketcher based in Seoul, Korea. He worked for over a decade as an animator at animation and game studios. Now he works in pen and transparent watercolor, capturing cities, streets, and everyday scenes. He pays attention to the atmosphere, memories, and quiet emotions he feels while traveling. From these, he seeks drawings where a warm sensibility comes through. He took part in AsiaLink Sketchwalk as a demo and workshop instructor in Suwon (2023) and Penang (2024).
Demo Description :
In this demo I work with color and shadow, using wet-in-wet and minimal wet-on-dry techniques. Through this, you see how transparent watercolor builds space and depth out of a flat scene. I begin with freehand drawing. At times, omission and negative space become part of the composition. I build depth with color and a single shadow. At the end, you see how that one shadow makes narrow alleys and streets breathe.
Seungbin Jeong’s Demo Material :
Drawing – Black Staedtler pigment liners (0.2mm and 0.5mm), or a fountain pen (F nib) filled with waterproof brown ink, Color – Artist-grade watercolor paints, Watercolor brushes, water container Paper – Watercolor paper, 300gsm (140lb), 100% cotton. Either watercolor block or watercolor journal, Other – Drawing board, tripod
D4 - Scenery and fun layout with distorted eyes
Artist: Jini
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (11.30am – 12.30pm), 21 Nov 2026 (3.00pm – 4.00pm)
About The Artist
Based in Suwon, South Korea, she is part of the Urban Sketchers Suwon Management Team and writes on urban sketching and travel drawing. As a Staedtler and Etchr brand ambassador, she actively promotes sketching as a tool for observation, creativity, and storytelling.
Demo Description :
Explore urban sketching through confident pen linework, playful compositions, and distinctive color application. Jini will demonstrate drawing techniques that use a deliberately distorted perspective to create dynamic and engaging sketches.
Jini’s Demo Material :
Fountain pen M nip or pigment liner with waterproof ink 0.5mm or more, a journal book or padded sketchbook that extends horizontally, watercolor paint, Brush, White pen
D5 - Urban Sketching With Watercolour & Watercolour Pencils
Artist: Khoo Cheang Jin
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (3.00pm – 4.00pm), 21 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm)
About The Artist
Born in 1963 in Penang, Khoo Cheang Jin developed a passion for art at a young age and has been painting since graduating from the School of Architecture at University of New South Wales in Australia. His fondness for travel led him to discover various streetscapes, old buildings and local communities that became his cherished muses for his watercolour and sketches.
As a co-founder of Urban Sketchers Penang, he has played a pivotal role in fostering the local art scene. Currently, he serves as the President of Penang Water Colour Society and imparts his artistic expertise at The One Academy Penang on a part-time basis.
Demo Description :
In sketching, people often draw the lines first and then add color, which can easily fall into the trap of merely “coloring in.” Let’s break away from this way of thinking: observe and analyze the scene first, then block in large areas of color before using colored pencils to define the lines. After that, continue adding color and refining the lines repeatedly until the work is complete.
Cheang Jin Khoo’s Demo Material :
Watercolour, Brushes, Mixing Palette, Water Container, Colour Pencils, Watercolour Pencils, Sketchbook
D6 - Spray First, Ask Later !
Artist: Khoo Yan Huai
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (3.00pm – 4.00pm), 21 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm)
About The Artist
Born in Penang, 2000. I’ve always had a passion for arts n crafts since I was a kid. Joined Urban Sketchers Penang in 2010. My childhood was blessed with a very active and supportive Usk Chapter. I participated in several sketching events and exhibitions such as Sketching Georgetown & Asialink Sketchwalk. Art for me isn’t just a hobby, but a way of life, it’s about telling stories & breaking boundaries. After graduating university in Taiwan, I started actively volunteering in organizing events for Usk Taipei and Usk New Taipei City, also actively honing my art through urban sketching.
Demo Description :
Spray paint is often described as messy and uncontrollable, but with the right approach we could turn the chaos into a playful way of urban sketch. Combining the boldness of spray paint with traditional sketching techniques, disrupting existing rhythms and reconfiguring visual languages to capture urban scenes in a fresh, innovative way. Pushing urban sketching beyond its conventional boundaries into a more experimental and contemporary form.
Material used :
Black Spray Paint, Watercolour / Gouache, Colour Pencils / Crayons
D7 - See & Sketch: Visual Journaling
Artist: PEIYI LIN
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm), 21 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm)
About The Artist
She documents everyday life through hand-drawn sketches, using drawing as a form of visual storytelling. Her practice focuses on observing and recording overlooked details in urban spaces, often wandering through alleys and streets to capture spontaneous moments. Through her work, she seeks to convey the emotions and perceptions experienced at the moment of discovery.
Demo Description :
In this demo, I’ll show you how I turn urban exploration into a personal sketchbook page. We’ll learning how to “catch” interesting, overlooked details from the streets. I’ll demonstrate my process of picking out these elements and gathering them in a sketchbook.
Instead of just copying reality, I’ll show you how to play with layout and combine these fragments into a unique composition. It’s all about moving beyond a perfect drawing to curate a visual story that captures how you truly saw and felt the moment.
Pei-Yin’s Demo Material :
Fountain pen & Watercolors
D8 - Perfection with Alcoholic markers
Artist: Ravi Gadre
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm), 21 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm)
About The Artist
Architect Ravi Gadre, born in November 1954, graduated in 1977 from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune. Since college days he is renowned for hand drawings and sketching, also for his caricatures, and project art works. He joined urban sketchers, pune in 2017 and still continuing. He was invited in 2009 as a jury member in jiu jiang, china for a national architectural hand-drawing competition.
In 1995 at a national level competition arranged by hindustan times, new delhi, he got a national level commendation award for a caricature of a popular politician shri bal thakare.
Demo Description :
In this demo session, i will show the progressive urban sketching. First step will be choosing the appropriate angle for a balanced composition and then draw the basic outlines with proportions and perspective. Next, adding fine details and clean line work with micro-tip pens. In the final stage, using alcohol markers to add layers in contrast, shadows, textures, weathering with dry markers, and dash of colours transforming the sketch into a powerful outcome.
Ravi Gadre’s Demo Material :
Minimum 140 gsm a3/a4 size paper
. Drawing pad and paper clips
. Basic stationery like pencils, eraser and sharpener etc.
. Black micro tip pens and white pen
. Colour pencils
. Alcoholic chisel markers
D9 - It's your own Perspective!
Artist: Soumya Iyer
Demos On: 20 Nov 2026 (5.00 pm – 6.00 pm), 22 Nov 2026 (10.00 am – 11.00 am)
About The Artist
Soumya lyer is an architect and animator from Pune, India, whose work blends spatial design, storytelling, and visual artistry. After working with Disney in Los Angeles, she returned to India to run her quilting business while freelancing with production houses and clients across the world. An avid sketcher and one of the original members of Urban Sketchers Pune, Soumya finds creative joy in capturing everyday spaces and moments through expressive visual storytelling, with a strong focus on composition, perspective, and detail.
Demo Description :
Join Soumya for a live urban sketching demonstration focused on the foundations that make on-location drawing approachable and enjoyable for beginners. We’ll explore how to choose an interesting sketching spot, simplify complex scenes into clear compositions, and intuitively understand perspective. The session will cover how to identify strong focal points, frame a scene effectively, and use basic perspective techniques to create believable depth and structure without getting overwhelmed by details. Whether you’re new to urban sketching or looking to build confidence sketching outdoors, this demonstration is designed to help you see and draw your surroundings with greater clarity and ease.
Soumya lyer’s Demo Material :
Black sketching pens (Microns) – (1 pt – 3 pt), Plain white paper- thick / thin, 2B Pencils
D10 - How to Observe and Simplify Nature in Urban Scenes
Artist: Sushma Hegde
Demos On : 20 Nov 2026 (5.00pm – 6.00pm), 22 Nov 2026 (10.00am – 11.00am)
About The Artist
Sushma Hegde is a self-taught artist, author, and urban sketcher based in Luxembourg, originally from Bangalore, India. She is the best-selling author of Wildflower Watercolor, which has been translated into multiple languages. She has also written and co-authored two German watercolour books.
Through her online classes, she has taught over 30,000 students and built a global community of more than 300k artists on Instagram. In 2020, she co-founded Urban Sketchers Mannheim, Germany. She loves incorporating nature into her location sketches and encourages students to find little pockets of time for outdoor sketching and nature journaling.
Demo Description :
When sketching outdoors, greenery can often feel overwhelming with all the leaves, textures, and endless variations of green. In this demo, I’ll share a simpler way to approach nature within urban scenes using watercolours. We’ll look at how to simplify trees and plants into manageable shapes, mix natural greens with a limited palette, and use tonal variation to create depth. I’ll also demonstrate simple brush marks to create texture and variety, and show how greenery can frame
and support an urban sketch rather than compete with it.
Sushma’s Demo Material :
Watercolours : new gamboge, quinacridone rose, ultramarine, quinacridone gold, burnt umber, perylene green, sap green, Round brushes, filbert brushes, and rigger brushes, Watercolour sketchbook or watercolour sheets – cold pressed, fine grain, Colored pencils and crayons (for highlights and texture)
D11 - City Sketching with Broad Strokes Pencil
Artist: Sutien Lokulprakit
Demos On : 21 Nov 2026 (10.00am – 11.00am), 22 Nov 2026 (11.30am – 12.30pm)
About The Artist
Sutien is a Thai sketcher and interior designer based in Bangkok, known for expressive architectural sketches and dynamic watercolor techniques. His work captures the atmosphere, character, and cultural identity of places through loose yet confident lines and bold compositions. He has participated in and organized various sketching events and workshops across Thailand, connecting art, architecture, and local communities through urban sketching. His artistic approach emphasizes spontaneity, storytelling, and the emotional essence of urban landscapes. Sutien also serves as an admin of the Urban Sketchers Thailand and Bangkok Sketchers Group.
Demo Description :
This demo introduces an expressive approach to urban sketching using only a single 6B pencil and bold, gestural strokes. The session focuses on capturing the character, atmosphere, perspective, and light-shadow relationships of a city scene through simplified shapes and tonal contrast rather than fine details. Participants will observe how pencil pressure, angle, and movement create depth and energy with minimal tools. The demonstration encourages spontaneity, confident mark-making, and embracing imperfections, offering practical techniques and fresh inspiration for both beginners and experienced sketchers.
Sutien’s Demo Material :
Smooth-textured sketch paper (120-180 gsm), A4 size
5B or 6B sketching pencil
CuQer knife
Eraser
D12 - Gouache On The Go
Artist: Uma Kelkar
Demos On : 21 Nov 2026 (10.00am – 11.00am), 22 Nov 2026 (11.30am – 12.30pm)
About The Artist
Uma Kelkar is a watercolor artist, urban sketcher, and engineer based in San Jose, California, originally from Pune, India. She sketches in ink, gouache, watercolor, and digitally on the iPad, and is the author of Drawing with the iPad: Urban Sketching. Uma has taught at six Urban Sketchers International Symposia (2017, 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025, 2026) and served as Secretary on the Urban Sketchers Executive Board from 2019-2022.
She has taught over 50 workshops worldwide, sharing her belief in cross-pollination between disciplines to elevate creative work. Trained as an electrical engineer with an MS from Stanford University, Uma brings a structured yet expressive approach to both her art and teaching. She is also the founder-CEO of Vivify, an Al-powered visual collaboration platform designed to support creative professionals.
Demo Description :
Gouache painting seems elaborate and time taking. Doing it in a small size (10cm x 10cm) makes a very attractive collection of memories which can be clubbed with writing to make a travelog. Learn 1) how to carry this messy medium, 2) mix most colors from only 3 primary colors (+black + white) and 3) keep water clean. These 3 key takeaways not only overcome most of the challenges of gouache painting but also open up the world of using colors in any order since this is an opaque medium. What we lose in speed in gouache, we recover in freedom of sequence of paint (as compared to watercolour).
Uma’s Demo Material :
Gouache – 3 primaries, red, yellow, blue plus white and black. Beer Coasters Brushes