Thank you Peter and Imaginism for redesigning this blog and, as promised to them, I will post my stuff.

Here are some of my subway sketches from late May to July 18th, and a digital rendering of one of them.

Thanks Peter, for the invite.
Here's a few of my subway drawings from 2 weeks ago.
Had a blast drawing everyone from the group, plus a few passengers.
Great dinner too :)

Old Man Sketch

Hey everyone,

This blog will start up again soon, we will be inviting all the new subway sketchers and encourage them to post here again. Stay tuned.

-Peter

Here are some sketches from the subway I did a while back that I wasn't able to post yet..



Happy Friday!!!

Subway sketching has been postponed until Sunday Jan 4th. Everyone is away on vacation and I came down with the chickenpox.

I spent 2 hrs unloading some of the weeks stress drawing in the Rideau Centre food court in Ottawa - I think this little 30 sec sketch justified the time. (the rest was fun to!)
click for larger.

Toronto Sketcrawl at the Metro Zoo!


What a great turn out it was! Not even the gloomy weather and rain could stop us--that's what being an artist is all about, right?! It was really great to see friends and new faces come together and sketch whatever they saw. I just wish the zoo stayed opened for a lot longer, but it just makes me want to come back more regularly.

Also check out the Sketchcrawl forum for more awesome sketches around the world!

And here's the link for the Toronto Sketchcrawl thread...so start sharing what you saw!

<3Kei

the meercats


mandrill


cute halloween kids!


.. our fine group!

Looks like there's going to be a whole bunch of people coming to the Sketch Crawl this Saturday in Toronto!
We're meeting at 12:15pm Saturday Oct 25 at the front entrance of the Metro Toronto Zoo.
Here are directions if anyone needs them
http://www.torontozoo.com/AboutTheZoo/Directions.TTC.asp
We'll post pictures next week sometime.

Here's a little sketch of a monkey with a banana :)

Hi everyone,

Subway Sketching this Sunday August 24 is postponed because we'll be at the Toronto Fan Expo at the metro convention center. If you're in the Toronto area, come on by. We'll be signing prints and books all weekend at booth A10 in Artist Alley. We'll also be doing free sketches for every purchase.

There's going to be tons of great talent and entertainment there. Just to name a few Jason Seiler, Doug Sneyd, Stephen Silver, Justin Ridge, Alberto Ruiz and Matt Stewart are all going to be sitting in our row.

Hope to see lots of you this weekend!
Kei

Hi! Here are some sketches I did during our "outdoor subway sketchgroup"..
... because it was just too nice outside to stay underground in the subways :).







Summer's not over yet! many more to come,
<3 Kei

Here's a few more sketches from subway sketching.

Some people ask me why the yellow paper...
No reason. I found a stack of old yellow paper in a drawer and didn't want it to go to waste.

Hi Everyone. Due to the snow storm, Subway Sketching will be postponed till next week.

Bobby

First post on the imaginism blog, thanks for the advice Bobby I tried fixing it up a bit when I got home.

It was great to get back to some good ol' subway sketching on Sunday. Here's some I did yesterday. We'll be meeting back up next Sunday! Hope to see y'all there.

Kei

Hi all.

Kei, T and I will be absent from subway sketching for the next 3 weekends. We will resume on Sept. 2nd. We're going to be in Chicago Aug 9-12 for the Wizard Convention. Then it's TCAF in Toronto the weekend after and then it's the BIG Toronto con, the FAN EXPO. Can't wait for that one!! Sorry about this... but don't worry. Comicon season is coming to a halt end of this month.

These weren't from this Sunday's subway sketching but we were on a bus at the "African Lion Safari" in Hamilton Ontario. We had a pretty fun time. I haven't been there for over 20 years...

Here's some sketches of a lion, baboons picking each others butts and other beautiful wildlife :)

Hi Everyone,

It's been a while since I've posted here but that will be changing. I haven't been posting many of my subway sketches because we've (Kei and I) been working on the Subway Sketches book!

Kei and I are having our very first art show this Saturday June 30th, 7pm-10pm at the Labyrinth Store on Bloor St W just west of Spadina Avenue.

We'll be exhibiting a collection of sketches done in the subways of our beloved city of Toronto. These are original subway sketches taken straight out of our sketchbooks. You will also have the opportunity to purchase original sketches, prints and books as well as meet us in person and ask us questions.

It's going to be very exciting and fun for us so I hope you can come make it. We're also going to be premiering Imaginism Studios' 7th book - Subway Sketches. I hear the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) is going to be there as well.

Our Subway Sketches book is full of observational drawings, tips and tutorials as well as some killer guest artists!

Guest Artists
Louie del Carmen
Thierry Lafontaine <-- Thierry will also be there to sign books on Saturday
Jason Seiler
Stephen Silver
Dean Yeagle

The Subway Sketches book is a special limited edition out of the Imaginism collection. It's 72 full color pages, signed and numbered (limited to 500 copies).

All of the Subway Sketches books bought at the show or ordered online from now until the end of August will also come with an sketch from both Kei Acedera and I (Bobby Chiu). You can here.

I look forward to meeting and talking with everyone this Saturday!

Please click on the image below for directions to the Labyrinth store.