Not feeling good today...

Today I didn't feel great! Soreness in my throat have been bugging me the last week and it seems like it's catching up with me. But I still sketched my tea and honey...

 

Need.to.sketch.more!!!

It's been more than a week since I sketched. That's way too long, for me at least. I need to draw more. The cold weather is not helping so I forced myself to sketch! and here is my front window. Next time i'll draw another piece of my appartement, good for when it's too cold...

The view from my kitchen and the origin of me...

Yesterday I had a very busy day so I couldn't take the time to get outside. So I made this sketch between everything I had to do. This is the view from outside my kitchen window. Painted it in with about 4-5 colours. I posted it on the flickr and facebook group of USK and I got awesome reactions. (got chosen for the banner picture on the flickr group)  Not something I expected!! But nice to hear people like it.

I was never to draw very realistically (in my opinion). A few months back I got interested in calligraphy. These lead me to fountain pens wich led me to Parka Blogs and  so on to Liz steel.
They showed me that I could actually draw the world around me and not be perfectly realistic.
About a day later I went to the art supply store and bought myself a basic watercolor set and paper.


Although it is still not that easy. Getting a good perspective can be very tricky. Not much later I found Jane Blundell she helped me a lot about colors. (At the moment I am looking into getting some new colors)

And that's a very short story about how I got into Urban sketching.