I heard of an experiment that someone was doing in San Fransisco which they dubbed a "sketchcrawl". The idea is to go out and draw for an entire day everything that you do or things that you see as you go along. I was inspired and intrigued by the idea so I decided to plan one myself! I urge other illustration readers to plan one in their city. It's a great way to meet other aritsts in their community.
EDMONTON SKETCH CRAWL
(18th international)
SAT, MARCH 29th
11am
STANLEY A MILNER LIBRARY, Down town
(in the entrance if it's terrible outside, outside if it's glorious!)
Here's what the founder had to say:
"The basic idea: to record nonstop everything I could around me with my pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took. After a whole day of drawing and walking around the city the name seemed quite fitting: “SketchCrawl” - a drawing marathon. The crawl was more tiring than I imagined but also more fun and exciting than I had thought. Giving yourself this kind of mandate for a full day changes the way you look around you. It makes you stop and see things just a tad longer, just a bit deeper … needless to say I loved it.
I soon figured out it was much more interesting to do the marathon with a group of artists instead of all by myself! And so SketchCrawl turned communal. After a whole day of drawing it proved to be amazingly interesting and inspiring to share and compare other people’s drawings and thoughts. Different takes on our surroundings, different details, different sensibilities.
The next step was making the SketchCrawl a World Wide event: having people from different corners of the world join in a day of sketching and journaling and then, thanks to the Internet, having everyone share the results on an online forum.
Hope to see some of you out there!
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Well, aren't YOU the cutest thang? And I've seen the butterfly brush, yes, and I've done a great job avoiding it. :)
Hiya, Ms. Froggie! Sweet illo! Very cute... but, um... you got something in your hair.
that's a stylized moi...for the client so she can say, "look. she's a very stylish hip young woman who loves what she does...oh and wears a man's necktie as a belt as it's soooo trendy and a chee-wa-wa on her head."
when in actuality...
see below...that's a bit closer to real. and you've got to do a big fat butterfly, with gandalf's face...yeah, a gray one...with a long beard.
errr, i meant "see up."
(duh.)