Róisín Curé

Comics artist and urban sketcher

About Róisín

A woman with long hair. She's smiling and holding a small shaggy dog.
Róisín Curé is an urban sketcher, author, and teacher based in Galway, Ireland. She came to urban sketching in 2012 and built a practice around capturing everyday and natural scenes in ink and watercolour. She co-founded Urban Sketchers Galway, teaches sketching worldwide through online classes and in-person workshops, and has published illustrated books including An Urban Sketcher's Galway and The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive People. Her current project is Wild Atlantic Ink, a monthly hand-drawn comic.

Quotes

In urban sketching they say draw verbs not nouns. I would say I’m a verb, I’m not a noun. I’m a doing. I’m not a being.

I’ve got the Ligne Claire of Hergé, and I have the Passion for Nature of David Attenborough, and the clown car is because I cannot be serious.

After about an hour I would get this feeling of calm, like a flow. Once the flow state began, I no longer made a mistake. My drawing would just happen automatically.

Key themes

Róisín Curé talks about finally calling herself a comics creator after years of resisting labels, and about her new monthly comic Wild Atlantic Ink. The conversation moves through drawing from life versus photos, what years of sketching built in her hands, and the calm that sketching brings to a mind that has long carried melancholy. It ends up somewhere unexpected, with foraged food and homemade bread.

Róisín Curé on comics and urban sketching — June 24, 2026 — 55:56