This month inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon, we have the theme of ‘darks‘.

There are lots of different aspects possible to this theme  – focusing on shadow shapes and starting with the darks, painting black objects, using more dark colours, night sketching.

I’m exploring all of these… but I’m also doing a series of sketches containing early-morning backlit subjects and I’m really thinking about the values of the light side vs the dark side. (BTW Value was our February theme!)

I’m also continuing to use a new triad I put together during our ‘three’ theme in March (see the bottom of this article and the comment section for more about it… until I have time to write a dedicated blog article on it). 

And you might also notice that in the top image, I’m still using Framing (our April theme) and Inktense (something I discovered using January’s Unused Supplies theme)

Hmmm, this year, the monthly themes from our Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon are really having a lasting impact on my everyday sketching!