Welcome to

Let's Start Sketching

2

mindset

I realized that having the right mindset is extremely important for anyone to keeping a regular sketching habit. Take a good break and check-in with yourself what is really happening that you are not sketching. A few example of questions:

What keeps me really from sketching?

  • Not wanting to spoil the sketchbooks? …and if I spoil one what will happen?
  • Being critical about my sketches? Am I reasonable or do I want results without work?
  • Who do I try to impress and is it really necessary? What would happen if no one is impressed?
  • Can I start making sketches immediately or do I need to start with a ‘crazy messy’ sketchbook just to get out of this?
  • Do I want to take my time and finish sketches or do I want it to be a ‘in the moment’ thing. (Give it a try how it feels)
  • What affirmations calm my ‘critical voice down’? Ex. I am practicing, so give me a break. I am improving sketch by sketch. I do not need to prove anything to anyone. Life is not a competition but a journey
  • How do I feel when I am sketching? 
  • Who could join you for a sketch outdoors?

Goal for this sketchbook: Fill the whole sketchbook NOT MATTER how it will look!

mindset

urban sketcher groups

Finding people with same interests is so much fun. 

You can join the Urban Sketchers of your area or in your city.

urban sketcher groups

The image is from when I participated in the Urban Sketcher Symposium in Switzerland in 2021.

Let's continue to materials...