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Sketch journalist and animation artist Joey Mason is known for his ongoing “Sketches de Resistance” project covering civic protests and activism in Los Angeles. His work draws inspiration from street photography, vintage illustration, and the Urban Sketchers movement, and aims to capture overlooked moments and to foster an appreciation for everyday life. Mason has published several paperback collections of sketches featuring scenes of street life along New York’s 5th Avenue, Los Angeles’ Figueroa Street and other unique urban settings. His reportage documenting the recent wildfires and community response was recently published in On the Spot.

Sketcher and illustrator Nina Khashchina is a prolific travel sketchbook artist always prepared to capture a moment, even when she is scuba diving, kayaking or on a horseback. She has filled more than 155 sketchbooks over the years, documenting trips to the Maldives, Spain, Alaska, her native Ukraine and many other locations. Known for her gouache, ink, and mixed media work, Khashchina is often drawn to the diverse colors, textures, and lighting of urban and natural environments. She has been teaching drawing and painting as an art instructor for more than 15 years and is a member of the Urban Sketchers community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jenny Jing Zhang is a Chicago-based artist, urban sketcher, and illustrator who never leaves home without her sketchbook. From the winding alleys of her native China to the vibrant streetscape of Chicago to the sun-soaked piazzas of Italy, she captures the pulse of urban life with expressive ink lines and playful watercolor washes. A 2022 Fellow in Civita di Bagnoregio, Jing Zhang teaches worldwide, sharing her love for sketching on location. Whether leading workshops at USk Chicago or piecing together cityscapes like a puzzle, she believes every sketch is a journey — and every journey deserves a good sketch, or a bunch.

Dominika Wróblewska is a freelance illustrator based in Gdańsk, Poland, specializing in reportage illustration and writing. A keen observer of the world around her, Wróblewska is fascinated by the idea of drawing as a form of sport, pushing the limits of where a drawing can be made. A good example is her long-term project capturing those who meander through subterranean cave systems. Wróblewska’s illustrated reporting of farmers' protests and the winter swimming culture in Poland was recently published in On the Spot. She is also one of the artists featured in “Reportage Drawing,” a seminal book on the subject by Irish-American author and academic Louis Netter.

Mário Linhares likes to link art with community projects. In drawing, he enjoys embedding influences from the masters of the past and learning how those methods and techniques can be used nowadays. Linhares has a B.A. in Design, an M.A. in Visual Arts Education and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, with specialty in Drawing. A professor in Lisbon, he belongs to the Fine Arts Research Center and Studies at the University of Lisbon. Linhares started Urban Sketchers Portugal in 2009, joined the international executive board in 2011 and served as the nonprofit’s education director until 2019. Linhares is the author of several books, articles and essays, contributes drawings to exhibitions and delivers lectures worldwide.

Lapin is a French artist living in Barcelona. He has filled more than 220 sketchbooks over the last 20 years and published more than 50 books. A self-described mobile illustrator, he draws with fineliners and watercolor on custom sketchbooks bound with ledger paper from vintage accounting books. He draws from direct observation, quickly and precisely, depicting his surroundings, the people he meets and the places he’s visiting. Lapin has participated in the Urban Sketchers community since its creation. He teaches the art of sketching at Elisava University in Barcelona and was nominated as an official air and space painter of the French Air Force in 2019.

Nishant Jain’s sketching journey began as an immigrant in North America, walking around with a sketchbook to better understand his new world. His work fulfills a curiosity for urban life, and the public spaces that enable us to coexist in harmony. He shares his art in a weekly newsletter to thousands of readers around the world, and is the host of the SneakyArt Podcast. Nishant just finished writing his first book, “Make (Sneaky) Art,” which releases in September. He lives in Vancouver (Canada) with his wife and toddler.

Cyrille Briand is a sketcher, watercolor painter and illustrator, living on the Atlantic French coast. He is the author of “Carnet de l’Estuaire,” a travel sketchbook showcasing both tourist and industrial sites along the Loire River delta, and “4 Islands Sketchbook,” about his trips to Corsica, Rhodes, Iceland and Hawaii. Briand joined the Urban Sketchers community in 2017 and founded a local Urban Sketchers chapter for the Saint-Nazaire region in 2019. He teaches workshops focused on outdoor sketching in watercolor. An avid traveler, he looks forward to every trip so he can return home with a new sketchbook full of colorful impressions.