Book recommendation: ‘Hand Drawn Vancouver: Sketches of the City’s Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People’, by Emma FitzGerald
Hand Drawn Vancouver: Sketches of the City’s Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People by Emma FitzGerald
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have been consuming plenty of sketch-based books recently, and that was the reason why I bought this one. Read more…
Book recommendation: 5-Minute Sketching – Architecture: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings by Liz Steel
5-Minute Sketching – Architecture: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings by Liz Steel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I have been reading a lot of books about sketching and drawing recently. I have been looking more for inspiration than for technique, and for this purpose this book is very good. Read more…
Book recommendation: ‘Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal’, by Samantha Dion Baker
Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal by Samantha Dion Baker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’ve always loved to keep memories, but for a while I have been frustrated by the fact that I haven’t been able to keep up with it. I’ve also been frustrated because I haven’t been drawing enough.
While I have tried different styles of journalling, I always feel like I am behind in one or another (keeping memories or drawing). Read more…
JCU street sketching in Townsville: An approach to drawing on location and recording what you see
Disclaimer: This is the first of a series of very delayed posts. A lot has been happening in the past few months, hence my silence. I definitely have to get better in sharing things here in ‘real time’, or at last as close to ‘real’ as possible.
Since I was a kid I always loved sketching and I was fortunate enough to be able to make that also part of my work. On 7th September, I organised a sketching workshop led by Richard Briggs. Read more…
JCU Sketchers Group
One of the subjects I teach at James Cook University is Design Communication. At the end of this year’s block mode a student asked me if we could have a group to carry on sketching, and so the JCU Sketchers Group was created. We have been meeting every fortnight, on Thursdays 3-4pm. Read more…
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