Japan Series #Sketch
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- Posted by Sarah Ott on September 30 2019
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Today's #Sketch series comes to us from our talented Dublin studio Storyboard Revisionist,
Olly: Sketching outdoors is something that I have always enjoyed and look forward to doing more of any chance I get. That's why I was so
I think sketching is the best way to record memories of travel, so I was excited to document all that Japan
I didn't bring my sketchbook on this trip and instead bought one from a Japanese art shop. I wanted to have something from Japan rather than Ireland. It’s a watercolour sketchbook made by MUSE designed with landscape drawings in mind, which means the paper is
We were at the Setouchi Triennale, an arts festival which
This is
This small pond had so much life to it. There was a turtle swimming around in the water and a toad under the decking, which I
On the middle island you can see a crane and a statue of a Pagoda. On the right page you can see the decking and a seating area. The weather at the time was
Takayama is in the Hida region of Gifu Prefecture. I had a lot of fun with my girlfriend exploring the old town which had a lot of beautiful traditional wooden buildings and narrow streets, with streams of water running alongside them. There were also lots of places that sold the local Hida beef, which is a specialty of the area. This little place was selling beer and skewered beef
The 'Tufted Puffin' I drew at an aquarium in Osaka. The aquarium is this amazing building in the port. You take an elevator up to the top and then descend through the floors as if you are driving deeper and deeper into the ocean. As a result, you get to see the creatures and animals that live at the different levels of the ocean. I did
This is part of the castle wall in Hiroshima. It was a lovely night
We went to visit a heritage village in Takayama and I
There were also stamps you could collect while exploring the folk village!
Having done some practice, I attempted a more complex scene with figures at an outdoor market in Kyoto. After doing the
It isn’t always easy but what I would tell people attempting urban sketching is to always simplify your work at every stage. You can’t tell but I used
Each stage of the sketch should
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