Continue reading »]]> The 20th Sketch Crawl is tomorrow in the Mission District from 11 am to 5 pm. Find out more here: http://www.sketchcrawl.com/blog/?p=79

From the official site:

…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.

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Continuing from my first part of my participation in the San Francisco Sketch Crawl on 3-29-08.

Starting to get hungry, I journied over to Lori’s Diner with artists Toni Nobel and Liz Cunningham. We wanted to have some clam chowder, and at Lori’s we could sit outside and keep drawing. All the while the crowds kept coming and there was a lot of energy. We could also see a lot of the park nearby as well as lots of people.

Here is Liz’s drawing of me. I’m flattered.

Here are some drawings and sketches I did…

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Next we headed down to the water to draw the boats…

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…but that did not last too long as it was windy and cold. So I headed with Toni and Liz to the The San Francisco Maritime National Park where we sketched a boat on display.

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After that we walked up to find a cafe in North Beach, stopping at the Artist and Craftsman Supply store (some great prices and selection). The store has some great deals and a helpful artist staff and then a half hour had passed.

After some refreshment at Melt, we headed back to the meeting place and shared our drawings from that day. I met a lot of really awesome artist who I hope to meet again in the future. I left the event feeling refreshed and alive. Can’t wait for the next one.

Continue reading »]]> I went to my first Sketch Crawl yesterday. It’s a artist event founded by PIXAR story artist Enrico Casarosa and attracts many artist who spend a day (11 to 5) in San Francisco drawing and “Crawling.” It was fun and inspiring to be surrounded by super talented artists.

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.

…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.
So here it is, we have a website now, a few Crawls behind me, some by myself some with friends and artists from around the world … and hopefully plenty SketchCrawls ahead of us.

So after I BARTed into San Francisco to the Embarcadero station and took a tourist filled F line bus as far as I could. I then walked to the Ghirardelli Square structure to meet for the Sketch Crawl. There were all ready a handful of artist there and by the starting time there was at least 20 to 30 creative folks ready to go.

Artist gathering…

Fine Artist John Deckert shows of his cleaver way to prop up his drawing board on location.

By 11:30 we artist had invaded the square and were mostly drawing the tourist and our fellow artist. Here are some of my drawings…

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Click here to see PART 2.