I am flat out today crossing off items on my last minute “Edges SD Launch” action list so this is a quick post comparing a few coffee sketches. Starting with the two that I did last week, where I started doing some interesting stuff. And the first two from my local cafe when I started...
CONTINUE READINGRecently, I thought it would be fun to share a step-by-step of a teacup sketch. But before I share my step-by-step I want to just talk about something always comes up whenever people watch me sketching teacups. And that is: “you make it look easy, but teacups are so hard!” So a three points...
CONTINUE READINGBeing ‘authentic’ is a hot topic these days in the blogging world. I am not sure exactly what that means, but I am happy to share with you my challenges last week and the impact on my sketchbook. Just for the record, my goal is to publish a new post 5-6 times a week...
CONTINUE READINGYes, my week teaching in Sketchbook Skool Seeing is on again. So that means there will be lots of people sketching teacups (and other patterned objects of significance) over the coming week. I might have to join in a few times! So today, as I wasn’t able to make it up to my local cafe...
CONTINUE READINGAs a lot of you know, I have this weird habit of reading serious architectural history and theory books for relaxation, and last Saturday evening was one such occasion. I was reading about Palladio again and as is often the case when I study him, was almost moved to tears by the sublime beauty of...
CONTINUE READINGWith the combination of teaching perspective twice in the last month and re-visiting all the content for my Edges course (getting ready for relaunch next week!) I am becoming more and more convinced that perspective isn’t the biggest issue when it comes to sketching buildings and street scenes. Don’t get me wrong, perspective is...
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