City

Sketches from Lisbon

Seven hills, tiled facades and a tram that rattles through every drawing you attempt.

finished sketches from this city

span of the log

media used

longest single sitting

Drawn	Kind	Sketch	On site
16 Sep 2026	Field kit	The twelve pans I actually refill, and the five I scraped out	40 min
1 Sep 2026	Layered process	Three ink passes on one street, timed honestly	105 min
24 Aug 2026	Spot sketch	The Alfama stair lane at 7:40, before the tram starts	95 min

Place card

Lisbon

3 sketches · Portugal

Granite, iron balconies and the Douro folding the whole city into one grey-blue plane.

Ochre walls, cedar doorways and shade that moves faster than your pencil.

Two continents, one waterway, and ferries that hand you a new skyline every twelve minutes.

Low slate roofs, copper spires and a harbour clean enough to draw straight into.

Hanok eaves against glass towers — the fastest lesson in drawing two centuries at once.

Awnings stacked like scales, air-conditioner boxes and alleys that never run straight.

Steel, soot and the elevated loop — structure you can read at a glance and draw in an hour.

Tilted slabs, painted market stalls and a haze that flattens distance into value shapes.