Introduce Yourself
Where do you live and what do you?
Have you done much sketching before or are you just starting?
What are your other creative pursuits?
Please include a link to your Flickr account, blog, Facebook page, Instagram, Tumblr etc.
So I’ll go first…
I’m Liz (I think you all know that!)
I live in Sydney, Australia. I’m an architect by profession and worked 20 years on a range of residential and commercial developments, specialising in media projects. I’ve always drawn as part of my work but in 2007 discovered watercolour and started my first daily sketchbook. I haven’t stopped sketching since!
I’m very interested in architectural history and theory and drinking tea out of fancy china teacups… but I’m guessing you all know that too!
You can find me on: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram and Twitter using the buttons under ‘Connect on Social Media’ in the footer of this website.
Now it’s your turn…
Jan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (north of Chicago on Lake Michigan).
New to sketching and happy to have found it!
I work with Veterans with serious mental illness and have found my sketching adds to the “joy” side of my day—balancing me and giving me a good dose of quiet energy. Now I ask regularly: Why doesn’t everyone sketch and paint?!
I’m Sharon from Western Colorado, U.S.A. I’m getting back into drawing many years after earning a fine arts degree.
Loved Liz’s approach to drawing in her Sketchbook Skool class, so here I am.
Anyone else from the West Slope out there?
Ling, I also crochet and knit. In fact, have crocheted longer than I’ve been drawing.
Marj
I’m Ling from Singapore. I have very little sketching experience, but recently tried to pick up watercolor journalling with my 4 children, whom I home-school. I’ve always found my perfectionist tendencies getting in the way of drawing and painting, so I’m hoping to work on those insecurities. I find it easier to crochet….it’s nearly always neat, and mistakes can be easily undone.
Hi Ling,
Just to say your not the only one with perfectionist tendencies that get in the way of drawing and painting. It is going to be a real challenge for me to use a bound sketchbook and not tear any pages out! May need to just scribble on one page just to break the perfectionist spell! Here’s to a new freedom in our artwork!
Hi all,
I live in El Segundo, California. Started drawing again this past year (took a few semesters of architectural drafting in college). Interesting improving my drawing skills and learning more about working with other mediums.
Cheers!
Helen