Time lapse sketching videos

Sometimes when you look at amazing sketches it can be hard to imagine how they were created. A time lapse video of an artist sketching can be quite an eye opener and kind of encouraging: we all start from a blank page! One of my favourite urban sketchers, Nina Johansson of Sweden, has done a time lapse video of her sketching a view of Stockholm out her kitchen window: urban sketching at its most comfortable! Her work appears in many of the latest sketching books, such as Gabriel Campanario's Urban Sketching and Danny Gregory's An Illustrated Journey. Nina has very kindly given us permission to show the video on this website. Thanks Nina! Check out the rest of her amazing blog, where you can see more of her work, reviews of pens and other sketching equipment, and even slideshows of some of her sketchbooks.

Another of my favourite urban sketchers is Rob Carey, who has done a series of time lapse videos of his sketches in various cities, such as Basel in Switzerland and Saint-Louis in France. Click here to see more of his videos.