SKETCHER DEMO
Create a multi-layered story IT’S SOMETIMES HARD TO KNOW WHERE TO START WITH A BUSY SCENE. OVER LUNCH AT FINDLAY MARKET, CINCINNATI, CHRISTINA WALD SHOWS US HOW A LITTLE BIT OF STRUCTURE GOES A LONG WAY WHEN CREATING A MULTIIMAGE COMPOSITION.
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lmost every city has a market. Findlay Market has been in business since 1852 and is the only one left of nine public markets that used to operate here. It is a favorite place for local sketchers. The activity around the market stimulates the senses, so how do I distill it into several sketches? For this demo, I went to the market on a busy afternoon with my mom and sketched at a table in the center of the market over lunch. We had a couple of spare chairs at our table and invited people to join us. It was so interesting listening to everyone’s stories. The first woman who sat down told us about her three dogs and about a lucky coin she found a few years ago that had led to finding money since she had acquired it. The latest boon was someone giving her $300 out of the blue!
Christina Wald is a full-time illustrator, urban sketcher, and toy/product designer living in Cincinnati, USA. She has illustrated over 60 books for children and teaches illustration and sequential storytelling at Northern Kentucky University. She has done a lot of nature-related books and illustrations for clients including the San Diego Zoo, Rocky Mountain Elf Foundation and National Geographic. She recently wrote and published a book about sketching called Sketching Here and Everywhere: My sketching obsession. She is now getting into publishing autobiographical travelogues, with her first about her 2023 artist residency in France called Chateau d’Orquevaux Travelogue. Read about her trip to Romania here. 32 drawing attention