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Sketching: An Ode to Burnt Orange, Pen, and Paper

Exploring ways to better understand things surround oneself, in times of traveling.

Sketching: A Brief Trip Down Memory Lane - Part I

Two of the cities in the UK that I've visited alone by myself quite often during few years back were Bath and London. Bath - the city itself is not very big in size, but everytime I went there, I always found new spaces to explore - be it a texturised building facade, a hidden secret garden, or simply an alleyway. It is kind of the same with what I felt of London - the city always has something new to offer, and of course spaces to explore, it also has tonnes of corners or quiet areas for us solo travelers to ponder and to appreciate the surrounding spaces.

Top left was from solo London trip, having a brunch inside a cafe in Victoria Station, overlooking the building just across the road. The middle one was obviously Bath, but was sketched few days ago (not a live sketch), as I was reminded of the city, and thought of doodling something about it. Top right was in Oxford, a night before a trip fly home. Sketches - the ones that one did - surely can bring back some memories in a much better way than merely photographs.

Sketching: Oxford

Moving to one city after another, I now truly realised that every city has its own particular vibe, that reverberates into us and gives us its 'energy'; which each of us translates into our own terms. I don't know about you, readers, but sketching - was one of the ways I enjoyed and experienced Oxford. Below are few of them that I've put on Sketches set on Flickr, though there are still many of doodles in my notebooks everywhere. I started to enjoy it again after couple of years, and hopefully will be able to do more of it in my hometown.

Black and white style with only pen and paper is what I like doing at the moment, as I'm still learning the shadow-light rendering. Didn't realise that I actually have many colour medias that I kept in my room back in my hometown (got a new watercolour set also as a gift from the lovely Oxford people!), so will probably try more colourful stuffs later.

Doodling: February

Random, wet, and ordinary February. Sketches set on Flickr.

Sketching: Another Quick Sketches

Did quick sketching a lot in this three earliest months of the year, I don't really understand why, maybe because I used to love drawing in my younger days. And maybe I need to relax my mind for some time, too much had gone through my mind. All is fine when there are some music and paper and pen: I can do the humming and doodling all day :)

What about you, readers, what you do to relax your mind?