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 This is not an outdated cartoon genre and not a carefully traced portrait or landscape, but sketches that record time and place, telling a story.

Anastasia Fedorova
“I have been drawing professionally since I was eight, that is, already for twelve years. The last five years were successful. Before admission to the faculty of architecture, I have been attending drawing courses for two years, then I studied academic drawing in high school for another year and a half. 
I’m fond of sketching not long ago. At first, I draw mainly for myself, then I realized that it was difficult to draw using only imagination, you didn’t have enough references, so I had to go out and to draw people. For me sketching is more complicated than academic drawing. Because when you are drawing an academic painting you get a model (David, for example) and it stands before you forever, so you can draw it as long as you need. While making a sketch, a person you are painting can leave, so you have to capture the emotion quickly. Usually, people are very embarrassed when they see that they are being drawn, they are trying to straighten their backs and to sit evenly. While I was drawing in Prospekt, a group of children surrounded me and looked what I was doing.
For me the best places to draw are coffee shops; I often go there with my girlfriend. People there are always busy, they read, everyone is cute and easy to draw. Nobody pays attention at you and it is very comfortable. Once we drew two men who were quarreling. They looked very charismatic; the expressions on their faces were bright. When they noticed that we were drawing them, they stopped cursing and sat quietly at their table, looking at us.”
Source: http://project.weekend.today/prospekt_scetchers