We interviewed five sketchers, two of whom are involved in Urban Sketchers Singapore in terms of planning and organizing Sketch Walks, and here's what they have to say about Urban Sketchers as a community, their experiences and their thoughts on the Art/arts scene in Singapore.
Video Interviews
Organizes Sketch Walks.
Teaches part-time – drawing, foundation classes, projects – at Temasek Polytechnic and SUTD.
One of the founders of Urban Sketchers Singapore.
Part-time lecturer at NTU, Art, Design & Media faculty. Freelance illustrator for advertising and magazines.
Has been living in Singapore for the past 12 years.
Involved in Friends of a Museum, supporting guiding in museums.
Does illustration, crafting, freelance design and painting.
Attends Urban Sketchers once a month since last year.
Wants to use Art as a career path.
Urban Sketchers Penang, Malaysia correspondent.
No formal training in Fine Art
Started drawing 15 years ago, enjoys sketching as a hobby and sketches every weekend.
Within our course in Art, Design and Media, particularly when we take Foundation Drawing in our first year, one of the most memorable and thrilling experiences of drawing happens when we were brought outdoors - away from the confines of the studio - to draw. Be it the zoo, Little India or at the very parameters of our glass and grass covered building, live drawing as a means matters more than its end. We interviewed two ADM students, who have attended/are interested in attending Sketch Walks organized by Urban Sketchers Singapore, about their thoughts and experiences following this drawing community.
Questions:
1. How did you come to know about Urban Sketchers Singapore?
2. How often do you attend organized Sketch Walks?
3. What do these Sketch Walks mean to you?
4. Is there a difference between studio drawing and actually going out to sketch?
Jessica:
1. From a friend who took illustration class from Andrew
2. I only got to know about it recently so I've only been there once.
3. An opportunity to make myself draw since I'm usually too lazy to do so.
4. The weather........ haha going out to sketch is more challenging in my opinion especially when it comes to moving objects.
Yao Khuan
1. I came to know about it through my teacher, Don Low.
2. Never did >< but I'd love to go someday.
3. Its a chance to witness the masters in action, and learning from them!
4. When we are outside its a very unique feeling, not only do we have to think about the weather, find a nice shady place to sit, get weird stares from passers-by and also try to capture everything that we see in front of us. its much more comfortable in the studio I'd say.
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Ignatius Yeo is a mortgage specialist by profession, but an artist at heart. He has done freelance work doing installations of luminous stars in the bedrooms of many of Singapore's elite in his younger days and dabbles in woodwork and sculpture but he is most known for his sketches which have been exhibited in "Transitions, Trancendence" (Manila, 2011), in the Urban Sketchers Volume 1 exhibit (Singapore, 2011) and currently at the "Of Memories and Places Exhibit" in Galerie Sogan & Art.