Well, today I did my first sketch of a non-blob car as an adult.  I decided that it was time I overcome my fears and start practicing sketching them properly.  I’m not doing neurosurgery, so I’m allowed to commit as many mistakes as I want.  As a friend of mine says, it is just a small drawing. I used to own a Prius, and I loved it, and thus miss it very much.  So I googled for a picture of a Prius; mine was silver, but I wanted to use more brilliant colors so went for one wi

I’d gone several times to the place since I met my wife 17 years ago, but today it was the first time I walked down the street to where the beach is.  It is really close, like 200 ft away from the restaurant, but I never cared to find out what was at the end of the street.  It was actually a nicer scene than I thought.  So I took out one of my sketchbooks and the watercolors. I sketched it directly with the watercolors on a 8″x 5″ sketchbook in less than 10 minutes.  I really

Back in school I did most of my renderings with colored pencil and airbrush.  I only used markers very sparingly, they were expensive and didn’t seem as forgiving as I would’ve thought.  I remember though seeing a lot of beautiful drawings rendered with markers, but I never put the effort to learn to use them extensively.  Around a year ago I decided to get a set of markers and learn for good. Nowadays with the internet you can do a lot more research before purchasing a produ

Well, I found a name for my blog… I updated the header image to include a scan of the title, handwritten with a Sharpie.  The symbol below is part of my signature, representing the first three letters of my last name, Aparicio.  Virtually all my friends (my wife included) know me as Apa.  In fact, when my wife calls me by me whole name I know she is really mad at me.  Anyways, I liked the title and had to sign it. For the past four months I’ve tried to sketch something every

The other day I invited my whole class to go out and sketch at Old San Juan.  It’s true that I told them attendance wasn’t required, but I didn’t expect no one would come.  One of my students, who happens to be a very good friend since I was a student, was the only one who finally came.  I still can’t believe it.  If one of my professors invited me to go out and sketch I was the first one there!  And so were my friends in college.  More than 10 years after graduating we still

Hello everyone!  My name is Luis E. Aparicio and I am from San Juan, Puerto Rico.  I’m new to this community, and to this point I have been enjoying it very much.  This blog will be about one of my passions, sketching.  Please join me even if you’ve never picked up a pencil in 30 years.  When you learn to relax while sketching you will find that it is a wonderful therapy.  You will find that time flies by and you will appreciate your world much more. When I started studying a