Sketching on holiday – capturing more than a photo

Ponte Luis I Porto

Pencil sketches by Selwyn Lemos
With the advent of the instamatic camera and more recently the now-ubiquitous mobile phone camera allowing everyone to readily document their experiences, it has become all too easy to simply take a snap of things you come across. This is especially relevant when encountering unusual and impressive sights while travelling.
The gallery below features the outputs from that particular trip, along with some local practice attempts and a few subsquent pieces taken from my sketch book.

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