Sketchcrawl 21 results

I was glad to meet some new Sketchcrawlers at the Ferry Building! Some of us stayed there, while others ventured out to the Japantown. I couldn't stay for the whole day, but it was great hanging out with new folks and chatting it up over lunch in Japantown!




These are gesture drawings for the musical performance I went to, after leaving the Sketchcrawl early.

21st Sketchcrawl

Happy New Year! I'm participating in the 21st Sketchcrawl on January 10th. Check out Sketchcrawl.com for more info and meeting times/locations!

Sketchcrawl 18 results

While the main Bay Area group met up in San Francisco, my friend and I went to the Oakland Zoo instead. Here are my sketches from the day.

Sketchcrawl 18 is on March 29th

A bit late, but here are my drawings from January's 17th Sketchcrawl. The next is one March 29th, so mark it on your calendars!

Some quick BART passengers.


Kids on the monkey in Portsmouth Square Park.


Spofford alley, where you can hear the clicking and clacking of mah jong tiles echoing.


Iconic lamps strung between buildings and on street corners.

Outspoken with Leigh Dragoon and Sketchcrawl

Read Leigh Dragoon's interview about her comic, By the Wayside, and the upcoming Comics Workshop in Berkeley on Outspoken!

The 17th Sketchcrawl is this Saturday! Check out the forums for a group close to you!

Sketchcrawl 16 results

I missed the last Sketchcrawl in August, so I had to make it to this one. I think I've only missed maybe 5 or 6 of them since they've started in November 2004. I warmed up on BART and then picked up the parasol ladies on the way to Fishermans' Wharf. Those are boats in the harbor there. I made it over to Washington Square and called it day there. Here are my results.

Sketchcrawl 14 results

Lots of walking was made from the Ferry Building, up to Coit Tower, through Little Italy and Chinatown and then ending at Union Square for the 14th Sketchcrawl.

While waiting on the ferry pier



Coit Tower


Lunch at Trattoria Volare Caffe in Little Italy. I roughed them there and painted them later.



Corner of Grant and Clay in Chinatown


One of several erhu players


Tawainese dancers in Union Square

Sketchcrawl 14, classic route in SF

The next Sketchcrawl is approaching on May 19th! The San Francisco group is going to revisit the classic route of the Ferry Building, Little Italy and Chinatown, ending in the Yerba Buena Gardens. It will be a fundraiser for Emergency. From Enrico Casarosa's press release:

Emergency is a humanitarian organization founded in 1994 in Milan, Italy, that offers free medical care to civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty worldwide. The organization also builds hospitals and health-care centers, physical and social rehabilitation centers, and first-aid posts. All of its facilities are designed, built and run by specialized international personnel, who in turn train local staff. More information can be found at its Web site: www.emergencyusa.org.

For more info and finding a Sketchcrawl group near you, check out the forums!

Sketchcrawl 13 at UC Berkeley

The 13th Sketchcrawl was on St. Patrick's Day and the group met up at UC Berkeley.

BART heads


Scooters/bikes parked alongside the campus. Can anyone identify the last two for me?



Cal Bears vs. Rhode Island Rams



Dinosaur bones

upcoming Sketchcrawls

The 13th Sketchcrawl is on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th!

The 14th Sketchcrawl is on May 19th and will be a fundraiser for Emergency. From their site: “Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization founded in order to provide free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty.”

Swing by the Sketchcrawl forums for more information!

Sketchcrawl 12 SF Zoo

Here are the drawings (a bit of watercolor, ink, and graphite) from that day.

Sketchcrawl 12

The 12th Sketchcrawl is on December 9th! The San Francisco group will be meeting up at the SF Zoo at 11 am. Here’s a handy flyer for the SF group. For more details and sketchcrawling groups around the world, check out the forums for more info.

Sketchcrawl 11 in Sausalito

Over 80 people participated in the San Francisco to Sausalito Sketchcrawl! I think it was the biggest one yet.

I drew people on BART, en route to the Ferry Building.


A musician on the docks and a couple people on the windy ferry to Sausalito were good warm ups too.


There were two elephant pillars at the Plaza Viña del Mar on Bridgeway in Sausalito.


My small group stopped at Lappert's Ice Cream for lunch.


On Bridgeway, this all wooden bus stop intrigued me by the shape of it.


Late afternoon, everyone gathered at Dunphy Park before heading back to the ferry. The small, pebbled shore had this interesting piece of driftwood or fallen rotting tree (hard to tell).

Sketchcrawl Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Here are drawings from my trip to Puerto Vallarta.

Underside of the palm leaf umbrella.

Busy streets were bustling with one lane for buses, three lanes for cars, trucks, etc. and then repeat going the other way.

These are a couple streets along the Malécon boardwalk, alongside downtown Puerto Vallarta. The mountains were covered in dense rainforest and dotted with houses peeking out.


The full name of the cathedral is Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Church of Our Lady Guadalupe) and it sits just outside the main downtown square.

I didn't actually witness a bull fight - I was watching it on Mexican television.




Los Arcos was where I snorkeled. The little dots next to the boat represent people's heads bobbing on the surface.