Final exhibition at SpaceportX. We had an inspired sharing session with the talented artist, Mr Philip Chin.

More group exercise on our second day at SpaceportX. It’s a thumb painting poster of Manchester sketch festival. Before that, Hakym gave a talk about KL Sketch Nation Global to the visitors.

Our second week of the event was held at SpaceportX. The first task was to doodling on the cardboard box where it will become a part of exhibition later. We also had a group exercise on how to create narrative by connecting some random sketches.

Sketchwalk and outdoor exhibition at Chorlton Arts Festival. The cardboard boxes were not only for exhibiton, it also became our portable table. I had a good time and it was a great experience as I never went and sketching at art festival.

After three days of sketch walk, we now focus on planning the exhibition. Our challenge is to design a portable structure made from cardboard and thread. Since our event theme colour is orange, we decided to paint white as a background and smudged it with orange colour on each side of the cardboard. Due to the safety precaution, the ‘spraying’ activity was done outside the building.

The events became more exciting when we were joined by Manchester’s urban sketchers on the third day of our sketch walk. It was fun chatting while sketching with them. They all were very friendly and talented. I was amazed looking on one of the sketchers sketchbook. The guy in the picture whom I forgot his name (sorry about that) had been sketching for almost three years and he already had thirteen sketchbooks. His did mention “practice makes perfect”.

It was cold and windy on the second day. We manage to sketch scenery of Piccadilly Garden and Market Street before we went inside the Arndale shopping center.i never knew that we need permission to draw or take picture inside the mall. Anyway, I had fun doing the 30 seconds quick sketch exercise where it train us on what to focus in our drawing.

Sketches of central library, Albert square and town hall from our first day of sketchwalk. We were lucky because the weather on that day was sunny. One of the tips that Hakym shared to us is the line for sketching doesn't necessarily need to be straight.