5 min. Sketch

Not a single day passes anymore without me drawing something, whether it’s in my sketchbook or just a quick attempt to capture a fleeting moment in some form. It doesn’t always turn out the way I imagined it, but that’s rarely the point. Sometimes it’s simply about blocking in a rough perspective, experimenting with shapes, or trying to preserve the atmosphere of a moment before it disappears again.

A lot of these drawings are made with pigmented ink, often combined with large amounts of water. At that point the process can start to feel a little unpredictable, almost like controlled chaos. The ink spreads, dries differently than expected, creates textures on its own, and sometimes the result turns into a small gamble. That unpredictability is part of what makes it exciting.

What I’ve really come to appreciate is how sketchbooks allow you to play without pressure. You can experiment with perspective, test ideas, push compositions into strange directions, and try things that might completely fail. And if they don’t work out the way you wanted, that’s okay too. Every sketch leaves something behind: a small lesson, a new angle, a better understanding for the next drawing.

The best part is revisiting these pages weeks or months later. Suddenly, you’re right back in that exact moment again.

I still haven’t shared most of these sketches yet. From time to time, I’d like to post more of them here on Patreon, on Steady, or in the supporter archive section. Not polished portfolio pieces, but fragments, experiments, observations, and little snapshots from the process itself.

(5 min sketch, lol. 5:55 min it was :P - Urban Sketch Baesweiler 8.5.2026)