Cafe Sketching

One of the things that Marc Taro Holmes suggested in the book The Urban Sketcher is to first try urban sketching somewhere comfortable and indoors, just like a cafe or a restaurant. Well, I really took his suggestion to heart. Below are my cafe sketches so far:

Rustic Mornings by Isabelo

First attempt at on-location cafe sketching. Wasn't able to include a sketch of my food because it already took me a long time to finish this one. Haha.

St. Marc Cafe

Matcha made in heaven. Embracing the imperfections of my first food illustration.

Starbucks Coffee

A paint date with Jade of A Day to Dream. Made a quick watercolor sketch of our drinks before heading to an event.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

First time to meet up with Andrea (the mastermind behind Katha magazine) to be her urban sketching buddy, and my first time to sketch a person on-location without a pencil guideline.

Cafe MITHI

Had an art tambay with Pau, an artist that I met online. I indulged in some Alab (pure cacao tablea and chili pepper) and Gunita (chocnut cake) while I attempted to find out her flower painting secrets.

I plan to fill my pocket sketchbook with more cafe sketches and food illustrations, and hopefully I can create on-location sketches of cityscapes next time. :)