This Saturday is the 27th Worldwide Sketchcrawl, a global sketching event taking place simultaneously in cities and towns and villages etc across the planet. The Sketchcrawl event was founded by Enrico Casarosa just over five years ago and quickly caught on. I will be sketching in San Francisco; if you’d like to join in, we’ll be starting at about 10:30/11 at the Ferry Building, and finishing at about 4:30, most likely at Vesuvio’s on Columbus. For details, please visit the Sketchcrawl Forum (links to the SF crawl section).
I’ve done a few Sketchcrawls over the past few years. Some of them I have done alone (sketching being a very personal activity after all), on others I have met up at the start and end but wandered my own path in between. The end is often the best bit (other than the actual sketching itself), when you get to compare everyone’s sketchbooks and see how they drew and interpreted the same things you drew. Then we all go home and scan and post on the forum, and take a look at what other people did in their cities around the world. Here are some posts of sketchcrawls (or at least, official sketchcrawl days) I’ve participated in in the past:
- Sketchcrawl 25, Davis: Nov 21 09, (part 1)
- Sketchcrawl 24, Sacramento: Sep 19 09
- Sketchcrawl 23, San Francisco: July 11 09 (Part 1)
- Sketchcrawl 21, Santa Rosa: Jan 10 09
- Sketchcrawl 20, San Francisco: Oct 25 08 (Part 1)
- Sketchcrawl 18, Sacramento: Mar 29 08
- Sketchcrawl 17, Davis: Jan 19 08
- Sketchcrawl 16, San Francsico: Nov 7 07 (Part 1)
- Sketchcrawl 15, Berkeley: Aug 25 07
- Sketchcrawl 14, London: May 19 07
- Sketchcrawl 13, Berkeley: Mar 17 07
- Sketchcrawl (?), Davis: Dec 05
San Francisco Sketchcrawl, Saturday May 15, 2010:
Start: @10:30, outside Peet’s Coffee, Ferry Building (Embarcadero)
End: @4:30, Vesuvio’s, Columbus St (North Beach/Financial District) to be confirmed!
petescully 
I’ll see you there between 10:30 – 11:00 and am really looking forward to it. My plan is to sketch until I run out of pages in my current sketchbook (or until I run out of steam).
Cool, see you there!
I’m working the Davis Double Century tomorrow (radio/sag) but will sneak a sketchbook along and hope to draw cyclists along the route — I stop at all the rest stops and it’s a great opportunity, everyone’s doing the same thing (sitting around, looking blank, filling water bottles, and of course bike clothes make it easy to see muscle definition…)
Dear Pete, thank you for visiting my blog and your lovely message. It’s nice to get feedback & encouragements. Would you mind if i added your blog in my links? i wish you a nice sketchcrawl in SF and look forward to your results as always… i’ll be doing my bit back here in brussels!
Bien sur! I’d like to link to your blog as well, your work is great! Have a good sketchcrawl in Bruxelles tomorrow
merci beaucoup and feel free!