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LUNCH TIME SKETCH AT WORK<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At work on my Lunch table sketching everything in front of me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today I sketched an image during my lunch break. And I drew my lunch that I was eating and drinking with , which was a<\/p>\n

2 litre mineral water, some yoghurt, and some fish and rice with vegetables. I am in the Cafeteria and the environment,<\/p>\n

has a great energy of people around the Cafeteria, I\u2019m sitting here today before I drew this image,<\/p>\n

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I was not sure what I was going to sketch today as I had a creative roadblock for a short time, and then it hit me, every lunch<\/p>\n

everyday is different, so I thought why not sketch what I have bought with me today so this is what I did.<\/p>\n

The reason I have sketched what I\u2019ve sketched today is because, before I started this sketch, I thought of doing something<\/p>\n

ambitious during my day, but then I thought I only had an hour for lunch, which was not much time,<\/p>\n

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so I thought to sketch something convenient without much deep thought and sometimes the answers to your questions are staring right back at you.<\/p>\n

What I learned from sketching these items, is the lunch that I ate, and drink, boiled rice, with fish and vegetables, is the lunch I make sometimes,<\/p>\n

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and I always prepare my lunch every night before I leave for work for the following morning, and when it comes to sketching<\/p>\n

these items on a lunch break, I use the same preparation in how I prepare my lunch then night before, to have a similar preparation of sketching these<\/p>\n

lunch items, that I bought on lunch my break, in how I prepare the composition of<\/p>\n

the items on my lunch table, and learning how to multitask between holding my android phone recording, and my sketches while I draw with the other hand,<\/p>\n

is a skill that takes great discipline, and if you want to learn anything to be better, you have practice as much as possible and not be afraid to make mistakes.<\/p>\n

How I tend to balance whatever time during my day to be spare<\/p>\n

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is I accept that I work a 9 to 5 job, so between these hours, when I commute to work on a bus, I have time on the bus to<\/p>\n

create Which can take me an hour journey into my work place. Then when it comes to my lunch breaks which is around 1 hour<\/p>\n

duration of a break, I can always do some sketching if I use my time wisely, and when I go home on the bus, however long the commute journey is which can be an hour<\/p>\n

or more, I can also do another sketch on the bus or train, so potentially I can have<\/p>\n

at least three hours spare, every day between my job, five days a week, but the one thing that can never be underestimated,<\/p>\n

is the need to rest properly, and the need to create in a small realistic way, to take compact chunks,<\/p>\n

to also live my life healthy and properly while being creative all at the same time, which is why sketching these items on this day,<\/p>\n

because it was very much a simple process to sketch items that I already had, to get my artistic practice.<\/p>\n

The materials I have used to sketch this lunchtime sketch are a Bic biro pen, and I have used, and Staedtler bold felt tip pen.<\/p>\n

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The reason I like to use these items is because to draw this sketch and most of my other sketches,<\/p>\n

I always want to be as economical in my process as possible, to get my sketch from point A to point B without rubbing out the line, because of a mistake.<\/p>\n

In my experience and opinion, when I used to use a pencil as an art student, I always was so tempted to rub out all the mistakes in my drawings with a rubber,<\/p>\n

and I always felt my progress at times was stunted by trying to make the perfect drawing,<\/p>\n

as perfect as possible. But when I sketch with a biro pen, I feel that if I make a mistake in my drawing,<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have the option to rub out the biro pen, I have to accept it with an imperfect line,<\/p>\n

or correct my line while still drawing on, and I learn from my creative mistakes,<\/p>\n

and I feel this makes me a better artist overall, and doing this drawing today for proves this.<\/p>\n

I feel working a 9 to 5 as an Artist is great for me, because when the pandemic happened there was a mass lockdown, in the UK,<\/p>\n

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and I was still working in the health sector as an essential worker, and between these times,<\/p>\n

I was still going to work on a bus and train, seeing the environment change, and no day is different, so if you\u2019re working a job, and you’re not<\/p>\n

professional Artist, just use all the things you see from what you see around your home, to the place of work where you are,<\/p>\n

or the environments you visit, because I feel as a human being we need to physically see each other as humans,<\/p>\n

because I believe art breeds symbiotic relationships, between people you directly connect or indirectly connect with.<\/p>\n

If I were a beginner today, if I wanted to begin art as a hobby, just like how I drew my lunchtime meal items on this day,<\/p>\n

between my day job, whatever the preference of artistic materials, I would prefer to use as a beginner,<\/p>\n

I would buy those materials, whether if its a biro pen, watercolors pencils or whatever the art<\/p>\n

, then buy a sketchbook, say A6 size for example for me I feel drawing in a small size is great to have a rucksack bag<\/p>\n

where your trying to save space during my day then having a smaller sketchbook might work better for you ,and then if you have a day job too,<\/p>\n

I would do little say 10 mins sketches between my day, and just draw anything, to just practice and have fun. Because for me drawing is like going to the gym,<\/p>\n

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you build muscle on a repetition in the gym, well the same goes for drawing you build your art skills through repetition of how you use pen, to draw what you see,<\/p>\n

and you can also learn from other artists online like Will Terry and Jake Parker who are professional Illustrators who have an art Academy,<\/p>\n

and along with many other illustrators online you could choose from on YouTube from Google.<\/p>\n

I love sketching this today because as I said before, I didn\u2019t know how to approach sketching anything on this day, and when I decided to do this,<\/p>\n

kind of sketch I set myself up for a whole mindset for a whole year going forward, because all I have to do , is a sketch<\/p>\n

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with great intentions and learning from others, yes but also know the days that I live, compared to someone else\u2019s days ,<\/p>\n

won\u2019t be the same as mine, therefore my experiences are individual, so my art will atomically be individual too, and I think that\u2019s the same for any other Artist whether they are professional or the hobby type of Artist.<\/p>\n

10. Below is a YouTube video of this lunchtime sketch down in a video recording from my Android phone,<\/p>\n

and I would appreciate any feedback or any questions you may have to ask me about anything .<\/p>\n

11. Thank you very much for reading my article, please click the YouTube video, comment like a subscribe.<\/p>\n

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