I am a school caretaker in Cork, Ireland, and I sketch on whatever bench I can find during my thirty-five minute lunch break. Four years of doing this with a small kit in my jacket pocket has taught me what watercolor painting supplies actually matter and what just takes up space. This is everything I…
Four years ago I bought a cheap fountain pen and a pocket sketchbook for a weekend in Galway. The pen cost less than lunch. The ink that came with it was a standard blue cartridge, and it worked fine until I touched a wet brush to a harbour wall drawing and watched the whole thing…
Sketching is the quickest way I know to improve at drawing. I am Ruairi, a school caretaker in Cork who has been sketching on lunch breaks for four years, and this is everything I have learned about the practice, the tools, and the process of putting pen to paper in the real world. What Sketching…
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