In June, I had a lot of fun trying new things in my morning sketches.

I decided to

• use a lot of opaque media (mostly Neocolor II and acrylic markers, with only a little watercolour),
• work larger (going to the edge of the page) and
• at times, to intentionally lean my vertical lines. 

Here is a selection of some of these out-of-character sketches – I went through all of them in a livestream recently.

There is something super nice about seeing vibrant, matt, opaque colour in my sketchbook (it jumps off the page!), and I love the fact that I’m using different colour combinations than normal. It’s a great way to feel inspired while sketching the same ‘boring’ everyday scenes over and over!