the purple one

attempting the view from the hill

waiting for the 75

mexican food truck

coffee stop @ Cafe Revive, Croydon

urban sketch

colour added

strictly autumn ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall

1st Birthday!

I’m celebrating a year of my online sketchbook!  From Paris to Penge, a lot of ink has flowed onto these pages.  I’ve got through pens, pencils and watercolour, have amassed quite a pile of sketch books, and have had lots of encouraging and helpful comments along the way.

I started lineandwash at the end of September 2011 because I felt I needed to do more ‘real’ drawing.  I’d been telling myself this for quite a while and it was only after meeting up with some old art college friends, that I finally took the plunge.  I decided I was going to try and put a drawing or sketch on every day for a year.

I started off by putting some sketches that I had made whilst on holiday, to give myself a bit of a head start.  It didn’t take long to get into a routine of making regular drawings.  Having said that, the blog is very much a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly!  Posting daily, often means that I’ve posted sketches which would never normally see the light of day – but I think that is part of the process. 

To give a flavour of the sketchbook year, here are the most viewed images, in traditional reverse order...

TOP TEN POSTS

Bromley Business Expo

10

waiting to catch sight of the Queen

9

the space under the Eiffel Tower

8

playing x-box in 3D

7

'Secret London' poster

6

lippy in a hurry

5

a morning on the London sketchcrawl

4

The Shard

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custard cream

2

the queue for Khoo

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Having now completed my target of 12 months of drawing, what now?

I’m already thinking about people and places I can draw in the future.  It’s been a very useful and exciting project to do.  I’ve definitely achieved the aim of drawing more!