Pedro Loureiro

Pedro Loureiro is an architecture illustrator from Lisbon, Portugal. He began his artistic career as a child by copying his favourite comic book panels. Later he took drawing classes in architecture school and joined the Urban Sketchers community, consolidating his path into the professional art world.

Pedro’s mediums are waterproof ink and watercolour, which he uses to paint places, events, and people to remember. His goal for teaching is for his students to realize how perception changes when seeing the world through sketching, and everyone can learn to draw. He uses sketching as a tool of perception and understanding of surroundings, exciting characters, and stories of the everyday.

He teaches regular sketching workshops and tells stories in the blog Storysketching and for Urban Sketchers Portugal. He was a regular writer for Drawing Attention, the monthly Urban Sketchers zine. Additionally, Pedro leads The Wedding Sketchers, a live sketching group, and Muse Lisboa, a life drawing group.

“By sketching, we see the world in a novel way, and each sketch we do is a story that we tell back to the world."

Read more about Pedro on his website and find more of his art on Instagram.