The Gift of Urban Sketching

I feel like my mind is always distracted until the moment I touch the pen to the paper. And that feeling of being present is part of the gift of urban sketching for me and why I have to do it. Growing up, I also heard similar to what you said that, you know, art is not a career. Art is something that you like and it's a hobby and you should do it. But don't let's not get too serious about this. We need to be a little practical about things. So I ended up becoming an engineer. By luck by sheer luck, I ended up become a mechanical engineer,. which worked so well for me because I ended up doing a