My Sketchbook

My Sketchbook

These are a collection of sketches and random drawings from the past few years that show some of my work and how I like to use my sketchbook.

Fine tip pens, watercolor markers, watercolor paint, pencil, colored pencil

I've recently graduated college with a degree in Environmental Design/Architecture so I love to sketch buildings I see in person and online. I've gone through some styles but have grown to love loose linework with more expressionistic details and color rather than focusing on the realism. In the past I would tend to get caught up in the minute details and really kept me from wanted to draw regularly and this stylistic change has helped tons.

I was inspired by a watercolor painting course I took in school, my professor was an old Chinese woman who moved to America for college to study architecture and landscape design. She pushed us to find what we liked to do while giving us many opportunities to explore watercolor and other mediums (followed up with very blunt, but helpful feedback). After taking this course I began to draw somewhat regularly and looked at the work of artists like Sketching Scottie on YouTube, Albert Kiefer, Draw Sessions on YouTube, Mattias Adolfsson, and a few others. Scottie and Albert Kiefer have been great inspirations stylistically and Mattias Adolfsson and Draw Sessions have helped me open up and explore different techniques and mindsets while I'm sketching.