Sketchpacker Diaries: October 2013

Monday, October 21, 2013

Northern Capital, Western Peace - A Sketchpacker's Diary (2/2)

Continued from Part 1.

Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013
I meant to finish this sketch of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
in the evening light after getting back, but decided to leave it as a
reminder that once the moment is lost, sketching it would never be the same...

Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013
The Great Mosque. This is the only on-site sketch I did in Xi'an because
the rest of the time I was either on tour or with another bunch of tourists.

Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013
Buildings and structures around the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
and Circular Mound Altar (圆丘)

Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013
Left: Information on China's music history one one panel
in the Divine Music Administration
Right: People exercising and playing shuttlecock in the Altar of the Sun park (日坛公园)

Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013
Left: Stone boat at Altar of the Sun Park
Right: Lunch at Qianmendajie and Dazhalan, including
siew mai (a kind of dumplings) from the famed 都一处

Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013
Left: My loot from Liulichang (琉璃厂)
Right: Chinese Christian paper cutting of Christ's resurrection

I guess that's all, folks! I hope you enjoyed the sketches and travelogue (I actually kept a separate notebook for a more detailed travelogue), and found the information in the links useful. Hope this also inspires you to keep your own travel sketchalogue! This is one souvenir that you can never get anywhere else!

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Northern Capital, Western Peace - A Sketchpacker's Diary (1/2)

I've scanned my sketchbook from my China trip to Beijing and Xi'an. There are a total of 43 two-page spreads, so I'll split them into 2 posts. This is the first half.

Not all the pages are of my sketches, though. Several are just tickets and receipts of places visited, and a few pages are of writings. For the most part I used an A5 Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbook (all the portrait format ones). The 2 landscape format sketches of the Forbidden City and Great Wall were done on a Daler-Rowney Graduate A4 landscape hardcover sketchbook.

Enjoy.