Look in Your Own Sketchbook

11/4/11 technical pen, watercolor

Chicago urban sketcher Andrew Banks has very interesting wisdom to share on the Urban Sketchers Chicago blog today. He encourages sketchers to look into our own sketchbooks – all the way to the beginning – for insight and ideas as well as the satisfaction of seeing how far we’ve come. I occasionally do this myself when I’m in a retrospective mood, and his post is a good reminder.

Here are two facing pages dated Nov. 4, 2011, and picked randomly from my first sketchbook – one of my first urban sketches (left) and possibly my first sketching visit to Zoka Coffee. 

11/4/11 technical pen