night sketches from Philip Jackson

Thanks Phil for sending his night sketches. With the clue that he was wearing a t-shirt with fonts, did you guess correctly who is Philip Jackson in the photo?

pseudo geylang sketch walk

joining in the fun ;)

Lowey's night sketches

It was good to see young faces and Lowey Lee, a young designer by profession sent me his night sketches at Geylang. Enjoy!

geylang sketchwalk

Drawing from the sketchwalk at Geylang with oic and urbansketchers.
Ballpoint pen, ink and poster colour white.

photos of night sketchwalk at Geylang

Miel's night sketches

Miel, sent me his night sketches and said "here're my sketches from last night :) couldn't produce more because the place is just blurry with so much illicit activity! couldn't help but, ahem, ogle the "wrong" way! hahahahaha! Anyway, the food was good, talk was good, company was good --overall, a wonderful evening :)looking forward to our next one!"

We are honoured to have the talented Miel as sketching buddy. He is listed on wikipedia here.

Evening Sketchwalk @ Geylang, Singapore

This is our very first night sketchwalk and we chose Geylang, our very own red light district. Much like King's Cross in London & Sydney. The sketching proved to be very challenging especially with the limited amount of light. Traffic was high and people everywhere. We had fun observing the men prowling the back alleys and the sex workers busy at work looking for their next potential customer.

This is another durian stall along the streets of Geylang. We had 1 very sweet durian at the end of the night.

We went to check out a smaller lane in the red light district. Here I was almost sketching blind because the sodium street lamp gave a very dim orange glow all around. Besides knowing the colours in my watercolour box and the rest was really guess work. It did not turn out badly when I walked back into the bright lights. Many men were walking around us wondering what we were doing in the dark. I had a street cat for company while sketching this too.

my night sketches

Sketches at first, second and fourth locations. Blog at tiastudio.

Night Sketchwalk this Saturday!

Thank you Drewscape for the original post.

The upcoming sketchwalk will cover the colourful geylang stretch where there are durian stalls and many busy eateries. We will meet at Kallang MRT station at 6pm and start walking off at 6pm sharp. Then we will move on down the road toward Aljunied MRT station. At 7pm, we will break for dinner at a coffeeshop with good food (you may also find your own food depending on your preferences.) Then we will continue the sketchwalk as a NIGHT sketchwalk. For sketching at night, there will be more dark areas interspersed with colourful bright areas, so do bring black markers or inkbrushes that can colour black spaces fast. We will conclude our sketchwalk at 9pm at Aljunied MRT station. Please call 91070735 if you can’t find us on that day. No need to sign up, just show up on that day.

ps: It is adviseable for female sketchers to dress with longer pants and less revealing shirts to avoid being scanned by uncles:) But we will stay away from the sleazy areas nonetheless.