Illustrated journal

Selected travel illustrations for practice. Used a variety of mediums (fountain pens, inks, watercolors, colored pencils) to enhance the details of each subject.

Absolutely not your typical journal, I was amazed by the content in them. Jose Naranja worked for may years as an aeronautical engineer, he then decided to start documenting his travels and his thoughts in a very artistic way, in his Moleskine books. By the way, now he creates his own books and has instructions on his blog site, on how you can make your own. The thing I like most about them, is the relationship between the drawings, photos and his thoughts expressed in calligraphy. His…

After years of wanting to keep a visual journal, I finally started in May of 2018. I began by calling it a logbook (thanks for the word, Austin Kleon), using a cheap sketchbook and materials, and o…

In June I departed for three weeks in France. The first part of my adventure was in Paris. Our first day we flew from Los Angeles directly to Paris. We arrived at 10:30 a.m., took a taxi to our apartment, went grocery shopping, set up house...Each day we explored a different district in Paris. Here is a selection of my sketches from my time in Paris. By our second day we were getting tired. We had kept a pretty steady pace since we got off the air plane. Today we covered over 6 miles on foot…

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Driving Around was one of the most fun projects I've worked on in forever! I learnt so much in the process that I thought I'd share some behind the scenes stuff in case it’s helpful to anyone else who may be on a journey to make/self-publish a small book/zine.

Sketching is the most authentic form of “thinking like an architect”. As every architect’s thoughts are different, their…