👋🏼 Hello, reader!
It has been an exciting start to the 30 Days of Vancouver Project. Today I am sharing Day 4, and entries from a giveaway competition I am running with SneakyArt Insiders.
30 Days of Vancouver is my daily drawing challenge through April, to explore different parts of Vancouver. Emails to readers go out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the duration of this project. SneakyArt Insiders get a bonus Sunday edition with giveaways and other exclusive content. I am glad to have you on this journey with me!
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I love to draw TinyPeople. It is a game I play against reality, a game of speed and instinct.
Reality makes the first move. It flaunts itself, strutting like a peacock across space and time. It does not wait for me to notice. In seconds it will be gone, replaced without a trace.
[Day 1] on the patio of Cafe Artigiano on Main and W King Edward.
When the time comes, I move swiftly. I cannot afford to hesitate. I reach out to grasp reality — all its shapes, colours, and shadows — and put down my impressions as lines of ink.
[Day 2] at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver.
This is our game - I must try to capture reality before it escapes. I win some, I lose some. Regardless of the result, every experience makes me a better artist and observer.
[Day 3] at the Rogers Arena for my first ice-hockey game.
🗓 Day 4
This morning I went to the Granville Island Public Market. I love visiting this place because it is always full of interesting foods, and packed with people. There are many places to people-watch, and I have sketched here often. Today I was glad to get a prime spot near the food vendors.
Can you count the number of TinyPeople in this double-spread? Do you have a favourite TinyPerson? Share your answer in the comments!
Tiny people have a lot to say. These portraits, distilled out of so much reality, nonetheless possess a distinct personhood. They have personality, pose, character, fashion, and hair-styles. This means that while you may never have visited Vancouver, it is still possible you recognize some of them.
Maybe they resemble someone in your world - someone you’ve seen on your streets or in your cafes. Someone you have not paid much attention to, just a side-character on the edges of your vision.
Tiny people populate your world, and add to its richness and depth.
And consider this: you also populate their world.
🚀 Giveaway with SneakyArt Insiders
Over the course of this project, I am doing weekly giveaways with SneakyArt Insiders, the wonderful readers who support this publication and thus my work as an independent creator.
In this Sunday’s special edition, I began the first competition:
These are the wonderful answers I’ve gotten so far:
Competition deadline is this Friday, so you can still enter by joining the SneakyArt Insider Club:
Up for grabs this week - ONE original SneakyArt drawing and TWO signed prints!
Thank you for your time and attention. I will see you again Wednesday!
Day 4 of 30 Days of Vancouver