Thank you for the insightful compare-and-contrast format! It allows for the appreciation of the skills and approach of each artist. Clearly, it was a lot of fun!

I’d like to see more videos like this. Great comparative analysis of the two

I like both styles but am drawn more to your architectural approach with maybe a little simplification. The whimsy of all the One Way signs in Ian's is genius! Life feels like that sometimes!

Fascinating comparison. The joy is that we all see I such different ways: Same scene + same materials = different outcome

Lovely to spend time with you Larry! Thank you for sketching along with us :)

You both did a stellar job. Ian's seems more dynamic, popping at you in a 3-dimensional form (and love that bicycle), but your sketch is pleasing to the eye too. I've never done urban sketching, but you certainly have inspired me to grab a lawn chair and do that here in Florida!

Well, they're both interesting in their own right. The architectural one is indeed more precise, the artist's version is using a more dramatical 3point-perspective. Very interesting, thank you for sharing.

I'm a huge Ian Fennelly fan, so this was a fascinating comparison. I like yours just as much as Ian's, but they are certainly different.

Thanks Larry. Great to see this comparison :)

Yours looks great actually. I know Ians is tough to compare to, but your pen and ink looks great.

Like Ian's He has so much more control Hes not all over the place I too am an Artist 50 yrs PROFESSIONAL REPRODUCTION ARTIST... GRAPHIC ARTIST...WATER COLOR ARTIST

I like both very much.

Thanks for this comparison…very interesting…have Ben on workshops with Ian, but still learned a lot from this video

I love both styles! So much to learn from each! Thank you Larry 😊

I love them both

Your style is definitely different. I rather like the spidery look of your lines. I like Ian’s tying in from the top left to the bottom right with that blue green wash. It allows the eye to flow. On your piece there’s a lot of detail everywhere. And so the eye sort of bounces from thing to thing. Both are fantastic though.

Thank you. Packed with helpful information.

Ian’s looks like an exaggerated Disney cartoon, or can you say “Roadrunner”? Yours is a work of art!

Very interesting analysis/comparison. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Another nice thing about using complementary colors, if you do want to tone the hue down a bit they can be mixed together, maybe for the colors further in the distance. For what it's worth, i preferred how yours turned out 😊 Using the darkest pen and the most detail in the foreground really gives the scene depth of field and added perspective

As a musician I tried to simplify and not hide the music behind impressive technique. (Just start to paint a bit to as a hobby that’s why I’m here, I guess. But I’m a beginner that can’t draw so nothing like this. Anyway:) It’s not often very technical musicians give credit to those not doing that solution. (I think it’s kind of competitive thing sometimes.) So hats of to Larry for complimenting and recognising Ian’s less detailed and more simplified sketch as, as_good art. Is it better? Idk. I don’t think art necessarily is in that kind of competition. In my view I would probably have chosen Ian’s painting if I had to choose some kind of winner or something. Then again it would be up to the competitions who was closer to the goal. But both I proudly would hang on my wall. Both are very good work. I believe that artist need to be different. Even if I’m curious how Larrys work would look if he did a Ian and visa versa.

Very interesting! Yours might have too much detail but I can see and feel the street. I mixture of the two would be nice. He has one focal point you have the same street. It’s interesting that you have such similar colors. Very good lesson be able to look at both styles with the critique.

I like both for different reasons! :) You have great talent Sir.! :) Enjoyed your analysis.

Beautiful

Really cool.

You perspective is right on

Excellent video. Thank you. I also need to loosen up and not be so literal in my attempts at urban sketching.

Very interesting, my dream is paint like an architect

One lesson I learned early on is where is my whitest white and my darkest dark? I think that's where Fennely'stands out.

awesome :3

Hi.Jim from Madrid, Spain (a fellow artist and a New Yorker expat living abroad). I have started to do Urban Sketching not too long ago to challenge myself into different artwork out of my comfort zone (I'm more if a wildlife artist) trying to always learn and grow in my artistic journey. This was a very interesting video and a great analysis both from an artistic point of view as well as from an architect's point of view. In my opinion, both sketches are great! Really. But... very different at the same time. We all know that it is in the eye of the artist to explain it's own tale to the viewer, showing what the artist wants to be the subject matter of the reality of the artist's view. And that shows very well on this example, which is GREAT BTW. Ian's focus is on one building, the red one, focusing all of his storytelling on that subject matter and accompanying the whole scene to render in his focus. Even the street signs and the bicycle point to the building as his focus. The colouring accentuates the subject matter, using warm reddish colours and light+shadows so the viewer feels the impact of the building itself as a stand alone protagonist in a story full of other characters (the rest of signs, posts, the street itself and the colder colours surrounding the main subject - the corner building). Amazing take of an urban sketch and something very difficult to do (in my opinion). In your take of the same scene (which BTW is a great sketch too) you depict a dual subject matter, focusing on an intersection between streets, flanked by complementary opposite buildings where directionality is logical (for example, the street signs point in the direction of the roads) and you focus the viewers eye into the distant trees, but without a specific subject matter to focus on, since everything is pretty detailed. This is exactly what I find difficult to do and to Ian it seems more of a second nature... the capacity to single point his story on what he wants the viewer to focus on whilst making everything else help the composition to that end, instead of trying to realistically represent a more truthful view of a scene but missing or unfocusing the story I want to tell as an Artist because I end up looking my focus, that is, my story (an Artist is a storyteller, not a photographer). So... Thank You very very much for this video. You have helped me analyze my own way of understanding how to improve my storytelling more artistically, whilst being technically correct but using Art as a way to distort reality and focus on the story I want to express so the viewer can see and feel better what I was trying to tell. I hope my comment makes any sense and I hope I have explained what I've learned. Again... Thank you very much for your content and I just subscribed to your channel to see your approach and artistic voyage. Cheers from Sunny Spain!!! 😁👍😎✌

Ian's seems more loose and abstract than Larry's. Larry has a more detailed look. They both are excellent and reflect their styles well. I like both styles. GREAT WORK! SUB/LIKE/SHARE/COMMENT/THX.

I'm not an architect, but I liked your sketch better, Larry.

some people need to learn humility

Top! yours are better

I thought you might have set up perspective lines before you started sketching