Last week I shared a step-by-step showing how I used some of the concepts from my Buildings course for sketching the complex Queen Victoria Building. In this article, I want to share how these concepts help when sketching simple buildings as well. On this occasion, I used a photo of a cottage from Carcoar (a...
CONTINUE READINGHere are two simple sketches of a terrace house in Balmain that I drew for a Foundations Livestream a few months ago. On these pages, you can see how I relied on seeing shapes and measuring a few edges. I didn’t use any perspective at all but simply used ‘feeling edges’ and ‘abstracting shapes’...
CONTINUE READINGFor many years I have almost exclusively drawn in ink. Although I’ve been very much aware of what a great sketching tool a simple graphite pencil is, I’ve never really used it. The main reason is that I don’t like smudges on my page. However in the last month or so, thanks to the inclusion...
CONTINUE READINGIn the last few weeks I’ve been re-reading a great architectural history book – The Cathedrals of England by Alec Clifton-Taylor. Before I became a sketcher I used to spend a lot of my free time reading architectural history/ theory books as research for future travels. I bought and read this book in 2000 in...
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce that I’ll be hosting a Live Sketchbook Tour this week where I will share all the sketches I did during my recent road trip through country New South Wales. I had such a great time sketching lots of lovely historic town street scenes and I’m looking forward to going through the...
CONTINUE READINGThe other day I sat down on a ledge of the Queen Victoria statue in Sydney and proceeded to do a fun detailed sketch of the magnificent Queen Victoria Building (QVB). I’ve been wanting to sketch from this spot for ages… but this particular ledge is normally occupied. I’ve sketched QVB a number of times...
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