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David Roberts

David Roberts returns to the Chicago Sketch Seminar with an expanded version of “Sketching on the Dark Side(s)” an expansion of David’s previous workshop that now teaches us how to create vibrant and dynamic sketches on Black AND Dark color paper. 

Always an urban sketcher, even before that term or the organization existed, David Roberts became hooked on urban sketching and its guiding ethos when he attended the 2017 Urban Sketchers International Symposium in Chicago. 

 Retired now, David was President of Roberts Architects, Evanston, Illinois and taught architectural design, construction detailing, and drafting as an adjunct architecture professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois, Chicago with a Bachelor of Architecture. 

 He was formally taught architectural sketching by noted architect and consummate sketcher, Larry B. Perkins while attending architecture school in Versailles, France. While on their sketch trip through southwestern France, David and his small group of fellow architecture students were required to complete a minimum of four sketches per day with rigorous daily critiques by Mr. Perkins. 

 In addition to sketching with pencil, pen and paint, David is also a painter and an active member of the Evanston Art Center and Evanston Made. 

Find David online at:
Facebook: David Roberts
Instagram: davidroberts.sketchbook