Is it possible to draw a city and its inhabitants in a few minutes, do subway passengers and sellers on the market like being painted, how is Kyiv’s mood reflected in laconic sketches, and when a picture can reconcile friends?

Prospekt shopping mall invited 13 sketchers on the eve of the Artist's Day to find out how they highlight the key points, and remain free being alone with the city and with themselves. Urban sketching is a world movement of artists who make quick city sketches from nature. This is not an outdated cartoon genre and not a carefully traced portrait or landscape, but sketches that record time and place, telling a story.

Olena Havryshchuk 
“I draw from my childhood, as long as I remember myself. I make sketches since I was a schoolchild. At the end of one of the lessons at the art school, we were given a task to draw each other for fifteen minutes. This was the first experience of such sketching. When I went to architectural college, we had to draw three works every three days. Therefore, we had to draw each other again and again to prepare the necessary amount of work.
I have few urban drawings. When there is an opportunity and a good company - it's cool. I always have several markers and a notebook with me, so when an opportunity comes up, I have everything at hand.
Perhaps, most of all, I like to draw people, especially older people, because their faces reflect their lives; their wrinkles can tell a lot.
Cafes are the best places to make sketches: it is comfortable there; you can drink coffee, sitting at the table. It is more difficult to make sketches on the street, especially when you have no chair, and you have to stay, trying to find the right position, in this case your hand trembles a little. The best place for me is the subway. The ideal situation is when you sit in the train in the afternoon, and in front of you there is a person reading or sleeping, and you have half an hour to draw him/her.
Probably, most often I make sketches in the subway. Basically, my “victims” do not see that I draw them. It happens that when passengers notice, that they are portrayed, they come, see, sometimes make a picture. If a person notices that he/she is being portrayed, the best thing he/she can do is to smile and to remain at the same position. Then he/she can come to you and ask to show your painting. Another variant is not to reveal yourself, so that not to embarrass a sketcher. While drawing a sketch in Prospect shopping mall, I settled down near one of the islets, and the girl sitting next asked me if she could leave, without disturbing the composition.”

Source: http://project.weekend.today/prospekt_scetchers