Reportage News: Sketchers at the Paris Olympics, Calendar and an Important Update
Dear readers, My first batch of sketching news after the unofficial end of summer is bittersweet. Cinematic sketches Alex Hillkurtz’s sketches from the Olympics stopped me in my tracks when I spotted them on Instagram.So fresh and spontaneous!Hesaid each Olympic…
Reportage news: Lydia Wood, John Donohue, Stan Mack, ‘Sketchbook Reveal’ by James Hobbs, Calendar
Drawing London, one pub at a time There is something special about pubs and sketching. Back in the early 2000s, pub crawls inspired Italian storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa to start World Wide Sketch Crawl, a precursor of Urban Sketchers. Pubs are the subject of…
Reportage News: Uganda Sketchbook, The Visual Anthropologist, Urban Sketcher Village in Erlangen
Uganda’s landscape and wildlife in watercolor and pencil “I traveled to Uganda to make one of my dreams a reality: to witness the mountain gorillas.” —Joan León Hot off the press! Barcelona-based sketcher Joan León, the author of Ilustrando Sudamérica*, takes us…
Reportage News: Mereida Fajardo, Joan Chiverton, Chip Sullivan, Luís Simões, plus a new Sketcher Press book!
Hello readers, Here’s a new bulletin of sketching and reportage news. If you like what you read, please share so others can learn about On the Spot and Sketcher Press. Behind the scenes at a London hospital “Vital Organs” is…
Reportage News: Simo Capecchi in Adesso magazine; Paul Madonna’s All Over Coffee; Substack Reads features On the Spot
Hello readers, Some housekeeping: On the Spot has a new tagline: the Magazine of Reportage Illustration. This slogan better reflects my original goal for the newsletter: to create a reader-supported publication that pays artists for articles of compelling visual storytelling. In light…