urban sketching

Sketching freehand in ink. Ink + alcohol markers.

Needing to get out of the house, I walked down the street to the antique shops that are right around the corner from my house and did some urban sketching.

Prague 2014

Trying to take advantage of a nice mid-Decemeber day in Kansas City.

I always tell students to start a project with quick sketches to develop a shape language. Plus research, then you can start to generate ideas. This is one of who knows how many small sketches I'll do to start this project. #ideation #designsketches #pilo

The garden of the architect and houses of Kassel

Nibbelungenturm, Worms, Germany

Drawing scrappy pigeons in NYC

Woman writing about art

Beergarden in Berlin Kreuzberg 'Prinzessinengärten'

Pen and ink drawing of the buildings on the Graslei in Ghent (Belgium).

Around The Table. pen, ink, colored pencil and watercolor on Arches 140 gram hot press paper.

Grace Cathedral - San Francisco, CA

some houses sketched in freetown and kenema/ Sierra Leone

Google Street View - Prune Restaurant NYC

"Faces" Mural in the Asylum Seeker Center of Amantea, Italy.

The Synagogue of Tilburg, drawn with ballpoint

Watercolour pencils and gouache on A4. I did this today at a Urban Sketchers meet up in the National Museum of Scotland - although, I guess, strictly speaking it does not fulfil the urban sketching requirements :D

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Calvary on Greenpoint Ave.

Zur Linde - Pub in Berlin Charlottenburg

Today’s urban sketching effort. I tried to capture light coming through windows at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Posca markers, brush pens and water soluble pencil on brown A4

black and white pride

From the crossing corner, on a busy city street.

Some studies from the @fullertonarboretum Friday. These are random studies for my Sketching for Animators and Illustrators class. This is how I create handouts. We're hitting the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles this Saturday. Can't wait! #fullertonc