After last week’s struggle with a viewfinder I was excited to get onto the topic of the next lesson in my SketchingNow Foundations Course. I had one of those big light bulb moments this week which was a combination of doing the thumbnails below, meeting with some architects and then a private message from a...
CONTINUE READINGThis week I received an exciting package – my copy of Get to Work Book(GTWB) for 2016/17. Naturally the first thing I did was sketch it. The creator of this book is Elise Joy, a lifestyle/craft/goal setting blogger who I have followed for some time. She describes it as: a daily planner + goal...
CONTINUE READINGContinuing my series revisiting the lessons in my SketchingNow Edges course, we are up to Lesson 2: Hard vs Soft Edges. There is so much stuff in this lesson that I am going to extend it over two weeks. In the lesson we explored the differences between hard vs soft edges and strong vs weak...
CONTINUE READINGA few weeks ago, a local sketcher commented on how much my style has changed over the years: “you are drawing less” she said. Yes, that is very true, the more I sketch the more I want to say more with less. (I hope you could follow that sentence!) Just following my daily latte sketches...
CONTINUE READINGThe Urban Sketchers community is shocked today by the news that Florian Afflerbach (Flaf) was killed in a tragic traffic accident yesterday. Flaf was one of my friends on Flickr in the very early days of Urban Sketchers – maybe even before that. He was known for his incredible perspective architectural drawings and cars. I...
CONTINUE READINGSometimes when you go out sketching on location you make one or two decisions at the start which seriously affect your work and the chances of it ‘being successful’. However I firmly believe that a successful on-location sketch is one that you learn from – every sketch will not be a masterpiece but each one...
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