I find it almost impossible to sketch while traveling
despite all the tips and advice and benefits!
Thanks for reading The Habit of Art by Kelcey Ervick, a 2024 Substack Featured Publication (twice!). Some of you are new here, so welcome! I love writing and drawing these posts and am grateful to everyone who follows along. I am author of four award-winning books, including the graphic memoir, The Keeper, which was featured in the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide. Inspired by my own shift toward visual storytelling, I co-edited The Field Guide to Graphic Literature, for people interested in making comics and illustrated stories.
-Kelcey
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Links and resources
I mentioned these in the post:
Other inspiring posts on travel sketches:
- ’s Travel sketchbook: Japan edition
- ’s Craft Talk: Take a Journal & Stay off Your Phone
- ’s The ART of Packing
And this is a post I made back in 2022 after a very special visit to my grandfather’s Norwegian village in 2022: Sharing our Strong Stories.
I did the same thing, Kelley on a two week trip to Europe this summer. Took a sketchbook sketching supplies, intended to sketch all about our trip every day but instead I experienced I saw I tasted I noticed and I had a great time. I did write a travel journal that has come very handy and I will now sketch at home, but it just seemed like I would have to step out of the actual experience to sketch the experience. Now we’re home, I look forward to re-experiencing our trip as I sketch . Thanks for affirming my choice😊
I m strange.. I have to have pen to paper where ever I go. My brain insists on it. I get ideas all the time. Everything is inspiring to me. Remember Albert Instein said.. Imagination is way more important than knowledge. I understand that now. That s why we have to incourage our children to day dream and develop that curiosity to invent, with one s imagination, that s pricelessl! Embrace it and like a horse, let go of the reins and fly! Just let it go and you ll be so amazed. As a child that was always my safe place, my private garden, to talk to God and invent and go through paper like crazy!
That s a gift straight from the ultimate artist,,God.