City

Sketches from Porto

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

finished sketches from this city

span of the log

media used

longest single sitting

Drawn	Kind	Sketch	On site
13 Sep 2026	Layered process	The whole page in two washes, and nothing in between	70 min
4 Sep 2026	Spot sketch	Ribeira's arcade, drawn from the quay wall in two hours	120 min
28 Aug 2026	Field kit	A working ink kit for under €60, weighed and priced	45 min

Place card

Porto

3 sketches · Portugal

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

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.