Urban Sketchers
#LAMY – Our Urban Sketchers Community
We are delighted by the creative urban sketches you share with us on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. Whether it’s city scenes drawn on location or spontaneous sketches on the go, your work truly inspires us. If you use the hashtags #lamy, #lamysafari and #lamyLove, your posts may be featured on our social media channels and on our website. Find out more here and become part of the community
Urban Sketching – Sketches that tell the city’s story
Urban Sketching embodies spontaneous, analogue creativity: people sketch their surroundings right where they are, capturing their impressions in a personal and unfiltered way. This global movement brings together an open, inclusive community united by a desire to consciously observe the world and interpret it creatively. For LAMY, this approach is of particular importance: we have always created tools that help people give visual form to their thoughts.
The international Urban Sketchers community is diverse and thrives on exchange, inspiration and continuous practice. This creates an ideal environment for rediscovering the joy of writing and drawing in everyday life. Within the scene, the LAMY safari is one of the most popular tools. Its ergonomics, robustness and wide variety of designs make it a reliable companion for urban sketchers worldwide.
Urban Sketchers Symposium 2026 Toulouse
A key meeting point for the community is the annual Urban Sketchers Symposium, which takes place in Toulouse from 15 to 18 July 2026.
LAMY is supporting the event as a Bronze Sponsor and is sponsoring selected workshops on site. At the same time, we will be reporting live from Toulouse via our social media channels and providing insights into the community’s work and exchanges.
LAMY Artist: Inhong Park draws the world
Anyone who follows Inhong Park on Instagram (@renhong.p) will quickly notice that she rarely stays in one place for long. Marrakech, Oslo, Hong Kong – as an urban sketcher, she is one of the defining voices on the international scene. The Korean-born artist has consistently developed her career from fashion design to freelance illustration, turning her passion for drawing into a profession. Her works are dense, atmospheric visual worlds, characterised by lighting moods, times of day and a palpable emotionality that infuses every scene.
In July 2026, Inhong Park will be attending the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Toulouse. LAMY is supporting her workshops there. In “Building Space Through Intentional Emptiness”, she demonstrates how spatial depth is created through the deliberate use of negative space and conscious reduction. Participants learn to work with foreground elements and to design compositions that are more open and clear, rather than filling every surface. Complementing this, her demo “Beyond Green” demonstrates how nuanced green tones can be developed through varied colour mixtures, thereby adding depth and atmosphere to landscapes.
We are delighted to be supporting Inhong’s artistic work and to be working with her to bring creative inspiration to the international urban sketching community.
LAMY Artist: Owen Labbé – Reduction as an approach
Whether snow-covered streets in his hometown of Montréal or urban scenes encountered whilst travelling, Owen Labbé captures places exactly as he experiences them: with a clear eye for the essential. His sketches explore architecture and cityscapes through an expressive use of line and watercolour. In his current project too – an illustrated travel sketchbook documenting his trip to Japan featuring more than 250 watercolours – observation and memory coalesce into a visual narrative.
For Owen Labbé, LAMY fountain pens are an integral part of his daily drawing practice: “I work with the LAMY safari and the LAMY AL-star. I value their reliability, ergonomics, the variety of options – I use the left-handed nib, for example – and how naturally they can be used when drawing on location.”
At the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2026, Owen Labbé will be presenting the workshop “Designing Stylised Architecture on Location (Line & Wash)”. In it, he will demonstrate how complex subjects can be transformed into clear, dynamic sketches and how simplified forms, precise lines and the judicious use of colour create a personal style. In his demo “Essential Watercolour Painting Techniques”, he will also provide an insight into basic watercolour techniques and demonstrate how vibrant results can be achieved with minimal resources.
For more details, check his profile @owen.labbe on Instagram.
