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Day 1 #oneweek100people2017: Let the challenge begin

March 7, 2017 | 5 Comments
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Day 1 completed – I hit my target of 20 people per day and I’m already feeling the benefits of this challenge. Due to the focus of sketching this week, I will make my updates brief, so here goes. I thought I would set the tone for the week by doing a blind contour selfie...

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My Goals: #oneweek100people2017

March 6, 2017 | 12 Comments
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So the big 100 people week has begun! When this article goes live I will have already completed my people sketching for Day 1, but I am planning to delay my posts this week so that they align better with the end of the day in the US. Are you doing it? Are you a...

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Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 9 - Composing the view

March 3, 2017 | 18 Comments
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Lesson 9 of my SketchingNow Foundations course contains one of the more challenging assignments in the course – using a viewfinder. A viewfinder is a wonderful tool to help people compose, set out a view and improve accuracy, but the reality is that it’s super awkward to use on location. It’s hard to re-locate it...

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Gearing up for #OneWeek100People2017

March 2, 2017 | 6 Comments
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If somehow you missed it, next week Monday 06 – Friday 10 of March, Marc Taro Holmes and I are hosting a sketching challenge to draw 100 people in 5 days. So this week I am mentally preparing for it. This prep includes deciding on my sketchbook, the tools I am going to use and...

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Sketching Architecture Workshop: February 2017

February 28, 2017 | 3 Comments
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Here is a quick report of the two-day workshop that I taught last week here in Sydney, in the lovely Macquarie St precinct. This is the third year in a row that I have run this particular programme (reports of previous years here), and each time it seems to get better, despite some on-location challenges...

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A French Sketching Interview

February 27, 2017 | 2 Comments
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I am so honoured to have been interviewed by Renata on her blog here (in English and French). I met her in Lucca last year and have been really interested in what she is doing these days. Renata has a drawing blog in french with a goal to motivate people who are scared to start...

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