Just before uni started, I was at the bookcase rummaging around the art section. To my little hearts content I found the watercolour books.

I opened the first page of a practical guide to painting in the wild. The first line read "Soft snowflakes began to fall gently as I climbed the last few feet to the summit of Red Pike, high above Wasdale." I knew then, this was a combination of my two favourite things, watercolour and walking in the Lake District.

David speaks in his book about the best paintings or even sketches are the ones we feel the mood of the mountains, the emotion of the landscape or indeed the artist. He talks about picking out a detail that peaks our interest and starting with that. I find it's a good way to connect with the sketch. 

This was an attempt at Talking Tarn.

Here are some photos of my practical life drawing sketches, I didn't manage to take any videos of me doing them because I went in to a coffee shop alone and had nobody to film me.

The artist on the left is Grisha Kim and they mostly use a thin liner pen for their work. They use a very shaky line and that fives the artwork a slightly blurred visual effect, it can also in some cases be used to portray movement in the passers by. It does also give a fairly realistic feel to the images. The practical use of only using a pen is that you only need a pen and your sketchbook so you can travel light.
You can find their work on their Instagram @_grisha_kim_

Here are a couple examples of work I did inspired by mostly Grisha Kim and their thin liner pen sketches.

Yann Lesacher is a sketchbook artist based in Brittany in the north of France, and he is famous for his collection of books that document his treks around the north coast of France in a sketchbook style.
He usually uses watercolour in his work but also dabbles with pen, and gouache.

After looking at his work I think that I should practice taking in whole scenes of life. But also I feel like I need to work on basic technical skills like perspective, buildings/architecture, and human anatomy.