World Wide SketchCrawl #11 is September 23rd !
What is a "SketchCrawl" ?In
short, roughly every 3 months we put a call out to people around the
world to join in, put pen to paper on a given day for as long as they
can (be it 20 minutes or 8 hours) drawing, sketching, journaling about
their day and what's around them. For a day, slow down, look around
you, see ... and draw or write. Record your day. No specific level of
skill is expected ! Anyone is welcome.
How to participate.
We
set up a forum where to seek and organize meetings with artists from
your area. You can participate in SketchCrawl on your own or with a
group of friends. I usually meet groups of artists in San Francisco,
where I live. The forums and the Flickr SketchCrawl group also serve as
gathering and sharing place after the drawing marathon day. The idea
behind this is to get the great feeling of drawing with and at the same
time as peoples from all walks of life and from all corners of the
world; and ultimately by sharing the day's sketches and photos on
Flickr and the SketchCrawl forums, to see places and details from
corners of the world we might not see at all in our life time !
The history of it.
We
put out a call for the first World Wide SkethCrawl on November 21st
2004, we've done 10 drawing marathons since and people from all over
the world have joined in and shared their drawings. On one occasion we
also raised funds for the Pakistani Earthquake relief effort. And we
plan to seek more of this kind of opportunities in the future. There's
nothing like sharing drawing and also make a small difference in the
world.
The SketchCrawl blog.
We
have a communal SketchCrawl blog for which we are looking for
contributors. We are very happy to accept posts from anyone who might
want to contribute sketches or thoughts about drawing, materials and
inspiration. One more space to share.
So
take this chance to dust off that old sketchbook of yours or take out
of the wrapper that nice new Moleskine you bought. Saturday September
23rd is around the corner, obviously the more the merrier ... feel free
to spread the word in any way. We've tried and spread the word in a few
ways:
we have made t-shirts and stickers.
If you plan to have a big group of "crawlers" shoot me an email, I'll be happy to send some stickers.
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