Urban Sketching: Žužemberk Castle

Žužemberk is a lovely little town with a magnificent old castle right in the centre. I've always liked the castle and I've taken many photos of it over the years. So, naturally I had to sketch it, too.

This sketch was actually done as a kind of exercise. It was drawn in one continuous line, with the details added into the sketch with a black brush pen as an afterthought. I actually like how the sketch turned out so much that I've decided to post it on my Flickr site and here on my blog :-)

The sketch was drawn on 30th July 2016.
Tools for the sketch:
Pilot G-TEC-C4 , Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.

Urban Sketching: Pokemon Hunters

They come at night.
They prowl the streets, surrounded by a cloud of mysterious white light emanating from their smartphones.
They stop.
They hunt.
They move on.
They are the Pokemon hunters.

We all know the latest craze of the "Pokemon Go" game. People just stare into their phones and walk around like zombies, hunting those little colourful virtual monsters. I don't play the game myself (I'm a child of the Gameboy generation and touchscreens just don't do it for me), but I still can't escape the Pokemon madness. Over the past couple of weeks I've been woken up at 10 or 11 p.m. by frantic shouts "I got it! I got it!" or "Noooo! It escaped!" Aparently, there are several Pokemons living across the street from my building. Well, on the one hand I do understand the Pokemon-mania. The way things are going at the moment with all the violence and death around the world, people simply need an escape: something to take them back to the times of their childhood, something that's the equivalent of a soft toy on a touchscreen.
However, on the other hand, I think there's something creepy about all these people prowling the streets at all hours of the day, glued to their smartphones and just generally looking like zombies. But I'm not judging anyone. If Pokemons help you survive, go for it!

The sketch was drawn on 29th July 2016 at night. Tools used for the sketch:
Pentel Brush pen (black ink), Pentel Aquash brush pen, Marco Superb Writer water color pencils, Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.5.

Urban Sketching: Lights on The Dragon Bridge in Ljubljana

There are many interesting bridges in Ljubljana and each of them has its own beautiful details. The Dragon Bridge, for example, has its dragons and these gorgeous lights. This was one of my first detail sketches and I'm very satisfied with how it turned out :-)

Tools for the sketch:
Staedtler 787 Mars Pan-Technico clutch pen, Faber-Castell kneadable eraser, Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.5, Marco Superb Writer water color pencils, Pentel Aquash water brush.

Urban Sketching: The Property of My Boston Terrier :-)

This was done as a quick, 10 minute sketch. My boston terrier is very proud of his property, which consists of his bowl of kibble and all his toys. Such an important thing absolutely has to be documented in a sketch :-)

Tools for the sketch:
Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.5, Marco Superb Writer water color pencils, Pentel Aquash water brush.

Urban Sketching

From Bangkok, Thailand to Ljubljana, Slovenia. This little tuk tuk made quite a journey! It can be found at the corner of Trg osvobodilne fronte and Miklošičeva cesta in Ljubljana, just accross the street from the central bus station. It's parked on the front porch of a fast food restaurant. I have no idea what it's doing there, but it's quite a lovely little novelty :-)



This is the view from the Dragon Bridge towards the Three Bridges. The Dragon Bridge can be found right in the centre of Ljubljana right next to the central open market. It crosses the river Ljubljanica. This is one of my favourite views in Ljubljana.

Tools used for both sketches: Staedtler 787 Mars-Pan-Technico, Staedtler Pigment liner 0.5, Marco Superb Writer water color pencils, Pentel Aquash water brush.