Trying (hopelessly – it’s already November now) to catch up with the #Inktober prompts, I followed the prompt for Day 14 of #Inktober2024 very literally, by sketching some old guidebooks we have. These are the Lonely Planet guide for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and the Let’s Go guide for the Middle East – both parts of the world where I have had the privilege of working.
Thu-24-Oct-2024
Here is my sketch for Day 14 of #Inktober2024, following the prompt of “roam”. I am going to be travelling for work soon, so I am making sure I have my various dongles and headphones ready. I keep them in this pencil case made from waste plastic. My kit includes this really useful little widget which lets me connect my headphones to the entertainment system on the plane.
Thu-24-Oct-2024
Here is my sketch for Day 10 of #Inktober2024. According to Wikipedia digital nomads are “people who travel freely while working remotely using technology and the internet”. Personally I find the idea overrated and associated with tiresome Instagram photos. Anyway the concept meant I could sketch my battered iPad, phone and AirPods to follow the “nomadic” prompt!
Thu-17-Oct-2024
This is the last sketch from our holiday and the last one in sketchbook No.92! Our journey home was uneventful and our layover in Dubai was just long enough for me to sketch this. The teardrop shaped windows (which curve up to a peak) are covered with what seems to be an adhesive screen or mesh, which I guess is supposed to block the sunlight and keep the concourse cooler…it took me ages to copy the pattern!
Wed-21-Aug-2024
While we still had the car we decided to make a trip out of Manchester and picked this historical house. The National Trust describe it as a topsy-turvy half-timbered Tudor house with a moat, that was built more than 500 years ago. It’s amazing that it’s still standing.
Fri-2-Aug-2024
This is the last sketch I did while we were staying in Suffolk…my daughters new hiking shoes. The day I drew this we planned our meals for Womad camping, did a big shop in the supermarket, said goodbye to my mum and sister and crammed all of our luggage into the car. These shoes seem to be excited for the next leg of our holiday, as they are already walking off the edge of the page!
Thu-25-Jul-2024
This sketch was started in “Edmundo Lounge” in Bury St. Edmunds where we had lunch on the third full day of our holiday. We drove to Bury to do some shopping for camping gear, in anticipation of the next leg of our trip, when we will camp at the Womad (World of Music Arts and Dance) festival in Wiltshire. I finished off the sketch at home.
Mon-22-Jul-2024
Here is the sketch I did while we waited for our next flight in Dubai airport (on our way to the UK from the Philippines). There are several of these ‘trees’ dotted about the place, put up, I think, by BeeTheChange.org who raise funds to support nature restoration and save pollinators. One of the hanging signs (in the shape of a bee) notes that “climate change, pesticide use and natural habitat loss has led bees and other pollinators to decline at the rapid rate of over 60% in the last 30 years!”.
Fri-19-Jul-2024
Here is my first sketch of our holiday – as always done at the airport. Our flight was almost at midnight so we planned to have something to eat there (in the Philippines they recommend that you are the airport 4 hours before the flight!). Even though Kenny Roger’s Roasters has a plant based menu in the Philippines the franchisees at Terminal 3 chose not to include any of those in the international part of the terminal…more grumbling from me!
Thu-18-Jul-2024