![]() I appreciate you all very much and I’m grateful you’re keeping me company on my journey.In his articles for ArchSmarter, Michael Kilkelly comes across as something of a technophile: some of his favorite topics include Revit macros, coding, Excel, automation and. It really means a lot that you are following along – whether here on the blog, or on Youtube, Skillshare, Patreon or as a student in one of my courses. Thank you again so much for being part of my sketching adventures and this blog – whether you’ve been around a while or just found me recently. I’ll select ten winners randomly and notify them via email on November 30 2023. ![]() To enter the giveaway: Just leave a comment below to go into the draw (if you want to comment and not be part of the giveaway, just add that). Which can be used when purchasing any of my courses directly from me on Gumroad (it’s not possible to redeem these on Skillshare). I’ll probably reflect on this incredible journey a bit more soon – for today all I want is to say a huge thank you to all of you, and share my giveaway! Here it goes: It’s exciting to look back at how it all started – all of the images that are featured in this post are from the very beginning of my nature sketching journey (except for the one at the very bottom that’s one of my most recent sketches – a goldcrest). I love the small community of people that has formed around this blog, and all of the wonderful students that I had the pleasure to meet. Without all your kind support, encouragement and shared love of nature I would have never made it – this was really what kept me going and growing my skills, both for sketching and teaching. I’ve learnt so much in these past few years, and all I really plan to do right now is to keep going and keep learning, and to share what I know through teaching. Looking back I would say that art school wasn’t entirely unnecessary, but self study definitely pays off too if you stick with it! ![]() I’ve become so much more patient since then, as a person and with my sketches, and I’ve made huge steps in learning how to see and in my skills. Whether it’s the birds outside my window, a rare orchid I discover on a walk, or the light of the sun setting behind the hills and houses – it all inspires me to take a closer look and see how I can translate it to my sketchbook with the eyes of an artist. I wouldn’t say that I’m strictly nature journaling these days, my sketches often are far more time-consuming and detailed than those quick journal notes, and I tend to take less notes, but it’s still at the core of what I love about my sketching practice: being outside, observing nature, and exploring it through drawing. Here’s the blog post from 2018, shortly after I crawled out of my creative slump and discovered nature journaling. It was only after discovering drawing in a sketchbook again, and starting a nature journaling habit that I felt creatively excited and (yes, that word) inspired again, and since that day, I’ve never really stopped. From lettering and calligraphy to illustration, and now primarily to sketching it has seen several iterations, and my creative goals and habits have slightly morphed over the years. This blog has seen several transitions over the years, in the same way my career as an artist evolved. So many of you have been a part of this journey and even before that, and I want to take a moment and say a huge thank you! □ To celebrate I’ve decided to do a small giveaway (details at the end of the post)! It’s been 5 years since I started my blogging activities around nature sketching and nature journaling, and teaching about the subject. ![]()
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