Distant sketching

Whilst I’m here on lock down under the government restrictions, I thought I’d try a sketching game. I take a series of pictures from a friends story on Instagram and turn them into ‘location sketches’ as though I was there. This just means I sketch them quick and loose, then throw a bit of colour on (digitally this time but normally it’d be with watercolours). These photos spoke to me because they were from a friend in Australia, where the colour and light just feels so alien other-worldly. I love the trees and vegetation out there, and I can almost here the dry rustle of the bushes in the wind. I also liked the concrete underpass photo as it reminds me a bit of the ones were have here in Manchester, and the ones in the U.S.A. There’s something calming and peaceful about those smooth, futuristic columns in permanent shade! Life humming away overhead.

So here are the sketches coloured up. I omitted one of them I finished as it was a overly worked sketch and the colour didn’t do it any favours, but it was the first one I did, so 3 out of 4 isn’t bad!