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Dan Archer is a British graphic journalist and author currently based in Hong-Kong. For more than 15 years, Archer has used cartooning and on-the-spot sketching to cover stories from Colombia to South Korea and many other locations. His debut graphic novel, “Voices from Nepal,” was published by University of Toronto Press in 2024. When he is not drawing, Archer runs Empathetic Media, an XR studio working with clients worldwide, as well as conducting research on biosignals and perspective-taking inside immersive narrative scenarios.

Tokyo area sketcher Kumi Matsukawa works as a freelance illustrator and art instructor, specializing in watercolor and pastels. She also works as a courtroom sketcher, a role that draws heavily on her experience of sketching on location. Kumi is a longtime member of the global Urban Sketchers community. She first joined as an international blog correspondent for Japan in 2009. She is the founder and administrator of the Urban Sketchers Japan Facebook group and Flickr group and has participated in several international USk Simposia.

Deb Mostert is an Australian multidisciplinary visual artist working across illustration, painting, sculpture and public art. Deb has had two exhibitions of over 100 of her sketchbooks in public galleries in her home state of Queensland and leads regular workshops on how to keep an everyday sketchbook. She was awarded the winning prize in the Centre for Transformative Work Design — Sketching Work competition at Curtin University, Perth in 2017. A recent reportage article on a trip to Kosovo was featured in On the Spot Magazine.

Louis Netter’s book “Reportage Drawing” (Bloomsbury) is the first academic book to provide a theoretical framework for the act. A practicing illustrator with 25 years of experience currently based in London, Netter is also the author of two graphic novels: “Refuge (Rosarium),” a voodoo western; and “Lizard World” (Black Panel Press), a picaresque satirical romp. His satirical illustration has been published in magazines and books, and is collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress, among others in the U.S. and U.K.

Santi Sallés is a draftsman, illustrator and graphic designer from Barcelona trained at Elisava School of Design and Engineering, with over 25 years of experience in the field. He has published several books and is an urban sketcher and YouTuber who regularly participates in travel sketchbook festivals such as Matitte en Viaggio in Italy and Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage in France. He teaches urban sketching at the private university LCI. Since 2014, he has been giving workshops, lectures, and drawing demonstrations worldwide.

Swasky is a Barcelona-based illustrator, urban sketcher and secondary-school art teacher. He works on location with ink and watercolour, focusing on reportage drawing and visual storytelling. A two-time international prize winner at Clermont-Ferrand’s Rendez-vous du Carnet de Voyage festival (2012, 2017), Swasky co-hosts and teaches workshops with Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries. He is also the author of “Hola, Miró!!!” for the Fundació Joan Miró and shares his process through newsletters and live sketching from studio practice to streets worldwide.

Elizabeth Alley is a painter and sketcher from Memphis, Tennessee. She received a BFA from University of Memphis in 1998. As a lifelong sketcher, her focus is on sketching everyday things as a way to prepare for big sketching opportunities. Sketching on location is crucial to her painting practice, informing design decisions and generating subjects for studio work. In 2025 she participated in the Arctic Circle residency and continues the practice of making work about landscapes experienced through actions.