The latest SketchCrawl, a worldwide, web-based, one-day drawing marathon, takes place this Saturday, August 27th. World Wide SketchCrawl #4 prompts its participants to spend the day drawing anything and everything in the city around them, and then sharing their journal art online with other participants from around the globe. Local meetups for the SketchCrawl drawing marathons in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia are being organized in the SketchCrawl forums.
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.
susannah_breslin
I'm lost
June 2005
AUG 26, 2005 07:49 AM