Rob
@robxscott.bsky.social
Architect, based in London, UK. Keen to improve my sketching!
Quick #pencilsketch on the Southbank London - man checks for directions (on his phone... or more likely reads an email... ) just enough time stopped for me to get the basics... Then helpfully stopped a bit closer to me!
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Quick #pencilsketch on the Southbank London - man checks for directions (on his phone... or more likely reads an email... ) just enough time stopped for me to get the basics... Then helpfully stopped a bit closer to me!
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Also did a quick #watercolour...
15mins #Lifedrawing pose... I remember feeling thrilled adding two brushes of faint grey shadow, not knowing if it would help!
It's like the satisfaction from an unexpectedly great shot in cricket (or golf), in an otherwise really short (long) innings (round)!
Also did a quick #watercolour...
15mins #Lifedrawing pose... I remember feeling thrilled adding two brushes of faint grey shadow, not knowing if it would help!
It's like the satisfaction from an unexpectedly great shot in cricket (or golf), in an otherwise really short (long) innings (round)!
October 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Also did a quick #watercolour...
15mins #Lifedrawing pose... I remember feeling thrilled adding two brushes of faint grey shadow, not knowing if it would help!
It's like the satisfaction from an unexpectedly great shot in cricket (or golf), in an otherwise really short (long) innings (round)!
Also did a quick #watercolour...
15mins #Lifedrawing pose... I remember feeling thrilled adding two brushes of faint grey shadow, not knowing if it would help!
It's like the satisfaction from an unexpectedly great shot in cricket (or golf), in an otherwise really short (long) innings (round)!
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Tried pastels for the first time too, really liked them for quick espressive mark making for short poses!
Trying three colours in combination, like I'd seen by Watteau recently at the British Museum - 'aux trois crayons'!? White didn't work?!
Loved it, and will try again!
#Lifedrawing
Tried pastels for the first time too, really liked them for quick espressive mark making for short poses!
Trying three colours in combination, like I'd seen by Watteau recently at the British Museum - 'aux trois crayons'!? White didn't work?!
Loved it, and will try again!
#Lifedrawing
October 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Tried pastels for the first time too, really liked them for quick espressive mark making for short poses!
Trying three colours in combination, like I'd seen by Watteau recently at the British Museum - 'aux trois crayons'!? White didn't work?!
Loved it, and will try again!
#Lifedrawing
Tried pastels for the first time too, really liked them for quick espressive mark making for short poses!
Trying three colours in combination, like I'd seen by Watteau recently at the British Museum - 'aux trois crayons'!? White didn't work?!
Loved it, and will try again!
#Lifedrawing
#Lifedrawing again last night at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye! Really great, range of short and long poses, as usual bits turn out well, others less so. Getting better!
This was an 18 minute #pencilsketch. Pleased with how most of it turned out (apart from one tiny foot!)
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This was an 18 minute #pencilsketch. Pleased with how most of it turned out (apart from one tiny foot!)
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October 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#Lifedrawing again last night at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye! Really great, range of short and long poses, as usual bits turn out well, others less so. Getting better!
This was an 18 minute #pencilsketch. Pleased with how most of it turned out (apart from one tiny foot!)
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This was an 18 minute #pencilsketch. Pleased with how most of it turned out (apart from one tiny foot!)
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5mins #pencilsketch study of Honore Daumier drawing 'Rue Trasnonian'
Again sketching really helps me to get into a different headspace!
Again sketching really helps me to get into a different headspace!
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
5mins #pencilsketch study of Honore Daumier drawing 'Rue Trasnonian'
Again sketching really helps me to get into a different headspace!
Again sketching really helps me to get into a different headspace!
Some of my #watercolour paintings from tonight's #Lifedrawing session. 15 and 20minute poses. Again really like aspects... But I'm terrible at faces generally! Also they feel washed out and without definition... Tempted to go over now (with pen?) just as a test??!
September 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Some of my #watercolour paintings from tonight's #Lifedrawing session. 15 and 20minute poses. Again really like aspects... But I'm terrible at faces generally! Also they feel washed out and without definition... Tempted to go over now (with pen?) just as a test??!
#Lifedrawing again tonight. Pleased with this 5 minute #pencilsketch... Quite quick, so pretty Happy with how the proportions worked out, although leg not right...
September 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#Lifedrawing again tonight. Pleased with this 5 minute #pencilsketch... Quite quick, so pretty Happy with how the proportions worked out, although leg not right...
#Lifedrawing again at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye tonight, was great!
So difficult, but fun. Kept getting proportions wrong, but good to blast through!
So difficult, but fun. Kept getting proportions wrong, but good to blast through!
September 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
#Lifedrawing again at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye tonight, was great!
So difficult, but fun. Kept getting proportions wrong, but good to blast through!
So difficult, but fun. Kept getting proportions wrong, but good to blast through!
The original and panels explaining the exhibition
August 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The original and panels explaining the exhibition
Quick twirl around the drawing galleries of the British Museum, #pencilsketch study of a couple of Watteau drawings from 1716. Didn't know his work, nor the black, red and white chalk technique. Feel like I can see the speed and ease in his strokes...
August 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Quick twirl around the drawing galleries of the British Museum, #pencilsketch study of a couple of Watteau drawings from 1716. Didn't know his work, nor the black, red and white chalk technique. Feel like I can see the speed and ease in his strokes...
Great fun! Particularly good being forced to work to time! Looking forward to next month.
August 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Great fun! Particularly good being forced to work to time! Looking forward to next month.
Attended #Lifedrawing at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye tonight, was great!
Different timings for each pose, 25mins down to 30 seconds! And excitingly I finally got my #watercolour brush pens out after maybe 20 years under the bed! Just as I remember: fun, challenging, room to improve.
Different timings for each pose, 25mins down to 30 seconds! And excitingly I finally got my #watercolour brush pens out after maybe 20 years under the bed! Just as I remember: fun, challenging, room to improve.
August 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Attended #Lifedrawing at the clock house tavern in Peckham Rye tonight, was great!
Different timings for each pose, 25mins down to 30 seconds! And excitingly I finally got my #watercolour brush pens out after maybe 20 years under the bed! Just as I remember: fun, challenging, room to improve.
Different timings for each pose, 25mins down to 30 seconds! And excitingly I finally got my #watercolour brush pens out after maybe 20 years under the bed! Just as I remember: fun, challenging, room to improve.
Speedy #pencilsketch study of the Raphael painting 'the woman with the veil' #portraitchallenge...
My usual pattern - I set a timer for 4 minutes, to try to sketch faster... But when it goes off I'm not happy it's good enough! Sneaked it up to 6½ minutes...needed more! 😂
My usual pattern - I set a timer for 4 minutes, to try to sketch faster... But when it goes off I'm not happy it's good enough! Sneaked it up to 6½ minutes...needed more! 😂
August 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Speedy #pencilsketch study of the Raphael painting 'the woman with the veil' #portraitchallenge...
My usual pattern - I set a timer for 4 minutes, to try to sketch faster... But when it goes off I'm not happy it's good enough! Sneaked it up to 6½ minutes...needed more! 😂
My usual pattern - I set a timer for 4 minutes, to try to sketch faster... But when it goes off I'm not happy it's good enough! Sneaked it up to 6½ minutes...needed more! 😂
A better version of her face! Glad I had a go at this challenge... So often I end up drawing what I think is supposed to be there, not what I observe! This pose was so unusual I had to try to pay more attention.
July 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A better version of her face! Glad I had a go at this challenge... So often I end up drawing what I think is supposed to be there, not what I observe! This pose was so unusual I had to try to pay more attention.
New pencil sketch of an old #portraitchallenge, which I didn't dare to attempt at the time, because of the really difficult perspective of her face! 'The young musician' by Attilio Andreoli. 12 minutes.
Thanks again @studioteabreak.bsky.social!
Thanks again @studioteabreak.bsky.social!
July 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
New pencil sketch of an old #portraitchallenge, which I didn't dare to attempt at the time, because of the really difficult perspective of her face! 'The young musician' by Attilio Andreoli. 12 minutes.
Thanks again @studioteabreak.bsky.social!
Thanks again @studioteabreak.bsky.social!
Long time no sketch... had a go at the #portraitchallenge... Pencil sketch Study of the painting 'Young man reading' by Smigelschi, 1892. Bits of it I like, felt nice to draw again! 11minutes.
July 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Long time no sketch... had a go at the #portraitchallenge... Pencil sketch Study of the painting 'Young man reading' by Smigelschi, 1892. Bits of it I like, felt nice to draw again! 11minutes.
This guy was just too quick! #urbansketching
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This guy was just too quick! #urbansketching
This was my real world view!
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This was my real world view!
Another great 45mins #sketching at the British Museum today. I found a good spot which gave me about 3 minutes to capture people as they waited for their platform lift! Some better than others...
#urbansketching
#urbansketching
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Another great 45mins #sketching at the British Museum today. I found a good spot which gave me about 3 minutes to capture people as they waited for their platform lift! Some better than others...
#urbansketching
#urbansketching
This was the location...
April 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This was the location...
5minute #urbansketch at the British Museum, of a woman resting and reading her phone
April 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
5minute #urbansketch at the British Museum, of a woman resting and reading her phone
This was the peaceful scene!
March 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This was the peaceful scene!
Enjoyed a quick #pencilsketch at lunch today - of people enjoying the sunshine along the Southbank in London.
I needed this - good for my mental health! So much going on in the world, & life generally, I remembered to switch off the news, & do something mindful. #urbansketching
I needed this - good for my mental health! So much going on in the world, & life generally, I remembered to switch off the news, & do something mindful. #urbansketching
March 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Enjoyed a quick #pencilsketch at lunch today - of people enjoying the sunshine along the Southbank in London.
I needed this - good for my mental health! So much going on in the world, & life generally, I remembered to switch off the news, & do something mindful. #urbansketching
I needed this - good for my mental health! So much going on in the world, & life generally, I remembered to switch off the news, & do something mindful. #urbansketching
Final #geARTet; thinking again about world politics... Especially dumb idea Ukraine should have elections!
Study of Jean Metzinger Cubist painting Soldier at a game of chess, 1914-15. Sneaked in Picassos Bottle of Vieux etc & Newspaper (1913)...to get a recent headline in...#kleineKunstklasse
Study of Jean Metzinger Cubist painting Soldier at a game of chess, 1914-15. Sneaked in Picassos Bottle of Vieux etc & Newspaper (1913)...to get a recent headline in...#kleineKunstklasse
February 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Final #geARTet; thinking again about world politics... Especially dumb idea Ukraine should have elections!
Study of Jean Metzinger Cubist painting Soldier at a game of chess, 1914-15. Sneaked in Picassos Bottle of Vieux etc & Newspaper (1913)...to get a recent headline in...#kleineKunstklasse
Study of Jean Metzinger Cubist painting Soldier at a game of chess, 1914-15. Sneaked in Picassos Bottle of Vieux etc & Newspaper (1913)...to get a recent headline in...#kleineKunstklasse
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This was the original artwork... I was looking for something which showed a sense of danger in a world of populism, I hadn't heard of Grosz but was great to learn!
From Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
This was the original artwork... I was looking for something which showed a sense of danger in a world of populism, I hadn't heard of Grosz but was great to learn!
From Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
![a painting by George Grosz,
From Wikipedia description of the original:
The painting represents Grosz's harsh indictment of the political and economical realities of Germany during the Weimar Republic, specially the economic interests who dominated the new regimen. It depicts several characters around a table before the backdrop of a burning city. The central figure is the President, Paul von Hindenburg, recognizable by his long moustache and his military uniform with medals. He sits with bared teeth, wearing an ironic crown of laurel at his head. A bloodied sword and a funerary cross on the table in front of Hindenburg are a reminder of his role in World War I, and the lives lost. Four headless financiers are also at the table, in formal attire. A corpulent industrialist, with a top hat, and with small weaponry and a miniature train under his arm, whispers discreetly at the President's ear. The implication is that the headless government ministers cannot think for themselves, and simply obey the commands of the capitalists and the military.[3]
A donkey, wearing blinders decorated with the German eagle, stands facing a feeding trough full of papers while balancing on a board tied to a skeleton. The donkey is interpreted by art historian Ivo Kranzfelder as a symbol of the German people, represented as accepting whatever is put in front of them.[3] At the right, one of the headless men rests his foot on the prison bars below him, through which a prisoner's face is seen. At the top left is a darkened sun illuminated by the American dollar sign. This is a reference to the investment of American finance in the German economy after World War I](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g2nzpvwdbje4s3yxzb4a6c56/bafkreiaexwqkciqxgom3q6ddh5ksqra5kzmlfpsub6wuumiumhn2uxjmti@jpeg)
February 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This was the original artwork... I was looking for something which showed a sense of danger in a world of populism, I hadn't heard of Grosz but was great to learn!
From Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...
This was the original artwork... I was looking for something which showed a sense of danger in a world of populism, I hadn't heard of Grosz but was great to learn!
From Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...