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…
Hello, I’m Trisha. I’m late in starting, but I hope to catch up gradually. I’m a very new beginner .. have played around with “How to draw” books recently, but without the support/commitment to a group I find the blank page beats me. I like what you say about making friends with your inner critic, Liz, and hope I can do that.
I live in South Australia, am 63 and am a librarian. I like the outdoors and hope to have more time to be in it. My time is limited, and I hope to make some work that pleases me, but also to learn to SEE more and BE more in the moment.
I hope to go to Spain in late 2015, and want to develop the ability to do some useful sketching while I’m there. I’m excited about developing a new part of myself.
Welcome Trisha. I am a late starter as well – there are few of us laggers. We can support each other since our assignments may lag the others. 🙂
Me too!
Hi, I’am Christien and I live in a little village in the neighbourhood of Antwerp in Belgium. My job is a businessdeveloper for an ict-business integrator. I followed a drawing education in the academy for arts but that is another way of drawing which I really love. 2 years ago I got in touch with the Urban Sketchers Belgium and I fell in love with sketching, sketchbooks, sketchcrawls and many many drawing tools:-). Unfortunately I have not so much time but now it is a challenge to sit atb my desk every night and make somen ”awesome” art:-)
Hi, my name is Agata, I’m from Poland and live in Warsaw. I’m forty something 😉 Last year I read Danny Gregory’s “The Creative Licence” and – out of the blue;) – started to sketch the world around me. I drew a lot when I was a child, but stopped in my early twenties. I started to read books about art and blogs of great sketchers. My life seems to be the same, but on the other hand it changed so much…
I never met like-minded person in the real life yet, but – frankly speaking – it doesn’t matter: now I have a lot of sketch friends all around the world 🙂 Since Spring I have taken few online classes (SBS 1 and 2, Strathmore, Craftsy) but SketchingNow seems to be something special, because I’m a HUGE fan of our Liz:)
My blog: http://drawing-actually.blogspot.com/
Hi! I am Susana, I am from Argentina and I am living in Beijing. I have been sketching for a while but not systematically. I need to put things in order if I want to see something starting to grow in my sketching. As I travel a lot I have good opportunities for sketching. I need to find my own way. I think I have arrived to the right place for learning how to. I am very happy for participating. I like also to work with watercolor, oil painting.
Hi, My name is Jennifer and I live in Austin, TX.
I am a teacher and a photographer. I love art and sketching and want to improve my skills. I’m excited about taking this class!