Art while traveling

Whenever I travel, the most important things that I bring includes a sketchbook and a pencil case full of my art supplies. As a person who loves drawing from life, I love drawing when I’m traveling because it helps me practice my artistic skills and experiment with different sceneries and things that I can draw. However, the artworks I make while traveling don’t take hours to finish. It only takes me about 5-10 minutes to finish because you don’t want to be late for your next tour. And that, I think is the purpose of doing art when traveling. You don’t always have to make a masterpiece of some sort… it just has to be a simple sketch with maybe a little color ( if you brought some). One type of art I like to watch people see is urban sketching.

Urban sketching is sketching or painting a scenery that you are in. I mean… how can you not appreciate this:

It looks quite accurate and a bit messy… but that’s the point. The artist who made this did not just stand in that location for hours, he just took the main parts of the scenery and started making his artwork (the artist is Jorge Royan by the way).

But besides urban sketching, you could draw the things that surround you like leafs, a pigeon, or the food you ate. There are much more things to draw when traveling than staying at home.

I hope this blog will make you have the urge to get out and explore the things that you haven’t drawn before and improve your artistic skills. BAIIIIII!!!!!😄😄