112 - TinyPeople under Cherry Blossoms

a sneakyart drop

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And welcome, new readers. This post is a SneakyArt Drop — a thing of few words, but many lines. Think of it as a mid-week cleanse for your inbox.

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🌸 Under a cherry blossom tree

You never know when it won’t rain in Vancouver. So when the sun comes out, you take every chance you get. I sat on some rocks to regard these people, who had come to greet the sun, under the pink shadows of blooming cherry blossoms.

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Spotted, photographers vacillating under changing light conditions. Spotted, children beholding the extraordinary purity of colour. Spotted, parents carrying infants who have suddenly decided to not walk anymore. Spotted, irate partners who are done with taking pictures. Spotted, influencers.

Drawn with a Sailor fude nib fountain pen.

🗾 The Japanese word komorebi translates to “sunlight filtering through the trees”. I learned it last summer from a reader’s comment about another drawing I did of people under trees.

This page was a great warm-up exercise for 30 Days of Vancouver, my daily drawing project which begins this Friday.

I posted about the project on r/vancouver to crowdsource a list of spots to visit. Generous redditors have given me excellent recommendations of cafes and street intersections on this excellent thread.

If you live in the area and have suggestions for places I should visit, share them in the comments.

Also, the above drawing went viral on r/drawing. 🥰

More details about 30 Days of Vancouver here, as well as later this week with the new episode of the SneakyArt Podcast. Thanks for your time and attention.