I’ve been participating in the first wednesday drawing day that a group of wonderful artists and illustrators do in the UK. Everyone gets together in one place and draws, and then share the results in a fun discussion at the end of the day. I went to one in person last year, but since the lockdown, everyone has been drawing on their own, and then sharing the drawings over zoom, which meant to I could take part from here in Tokyo!
The first theme was ‘view from the window’ and I spent time drawing the Tokyo skyline visible from the living room…
The next theme was ‘food’, so I spent time in the kitchen drawing the shelves and loving the details on the packaging…
Unfortunately, due to the time difference I haven’t managed to stay awake to join the zooms yet, but we’ve been putting our drawings on the firstwednesdaydrawingday instagram, so we can share and enjoy our drawings. Take a look if you’re interested!
The next theme was ‘outside’ and I sat by a different window and tried some loose ink painting sketches…
This month was again ‘outside” and I went to the only open outside area near us, the Aoyama cemetery, and drew the overgrown tombstones and incredible greenery, and then this storage area for the buckets and brooms for cleaning the graves:
I was a quite bitten by the early summer bugs in the cemetery, so I might need to find somewhere else to draw next time! It’s always so good to get back to doing some real drawing with paper and pens, after such intense weeks of working on the computer…