sketches
2024
2024 was the year I studied abroad in Germany and traveled widely in Europe more broadly. I mostly stuck to sketches during this period, either from life or from impressions of things I'd seen.
Rotterdam. Sketched from the water taxi before it began its motion.
A small mountain climbed with a friend, the top of which held a village so small it only had one church and one restaurant. A girl about nine years old worked on her family's farm.
Schlüßelblumen, an old couple told me when I asked them what these flowers were called. I've only seen them in Bavaria.
Heidelberg, sketched with a friend from a spot across the river. I did add color to this one later, but the color seemed to ruin it so I'm posting here only the inked sketch.
This is my own composition, after visiting Prague. Prague famously bills itself the Mother of Cities, which is even engraved on Czech coinage. The city is absolutely bedecked with Art Nouveau signage and architecture, and I wanted to try my hand at it after what felt like total immersion in this art style.
The skyline of Zagreb, Croatia, sketched from life.
A Zwergmaus (Eurasian harvest mouse) seen at the zoo in Innsbruck, Austria. Unsurprisingly, they're really skittish and like to hide, so this is a composite of multiple mice, each of which would jump behind dried grass whenever I had a good view of it.
A goat from the mountains of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria <3