This is an invitation to join me in my attempts to start keeping a visual diary - consisting of sketches and drawings from memory of the most impressive images, events and, why not- thoughts and moods from the day. It is a good thing to have friends joining in - it will probably make me more serious about it. Otherwise, I keep starting it once and again and then putting it aside.
You are welcome!

those are really great sketches sveta, i am already in the middle of a moleskin project along with the trades, but it is a wonderful idea.i love your work, from fast sketch to watercolor, you do wonderful!

When I grow up I want to draw like Sveta!
The people in your sketches are full of energy. Your drawings seem to move, they're not as static as photographs are. I especially like how you captured the situation on the stage. In cases like this I seem to get too concerned about details. Thanks for sharing, it's a great material for all of us to learn from

Your idea is fantastic! I hope to find time and courage to join you. Yep, that's me. I just need to hear a tiny voice in my head saying "No, I couldn't do that." and I'm off to do that

I think I would do it if I could draw from memory but I really can't. Anything I draw from my mind or what not ends up looking um weird.. And there wouldnt be much to draw from my memory because i'm always going to work and it's boring there. But I do hope others will join you.

Well, not much of a drawing. But I felt that I just had to pour this out on paper.

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This little almost imperceptible moment gave me a lot of thoughts. I wrote some more on my blog. I don't want to repeat the same here.

I didn't catch the leaf, but I guess that next time I will do that.

Are you a member of EveryDayMatters on Yahoo?

Trish, you have mentioned Every Day Matters before and it sounds interesting. What's it all about?

P.S. When I grow up I want to draw like Sveta AND siksnosparnyte! Sveta, I like the diary and will give it a try.

Kay - this is going to sound dumb but what's a moleskin?

Thank you all - you are very kind and I am looking forward to sharing our impressions.
Agne, that's a charming drawing!
I don't know about Every Day Matters. I am going to look into it.

Sveta nice art like always.Who knows I might try some naive color art from memory.

sandra, here they are moleskine

I thought it was one of these?

Sveta, that's a very good idea. I might join if I have enough time.

Hi Sandy,
EveryDayMatters description from their Yahoo group website:

Description
Everyday Matters is a friendly community designed to encourage members to expand their creativity. Our main focus is on drawing and creating illustrated journals but we welcome creative people from all disciplines. Our group includes members of all degrees of ability and experience -- from total novices to professional illustrators, artists, and teachers.
In 2004, our group grew out of Danny Gregory's weblog, and books, Everyday Matters, The Creative License and An Illustrated Life
We share our creative experiences in many ways:


We post our drawings on our personal blogs

or in our Flickr group.

We have a new and very active Facebook group (Search "Everyday Matters")

We have a blog of blogs.

We have a Group Resource Center. All members are urged to contribute.

We have a weekly drawing challenge . A public list of past challenges is listed here and the current ones are available to members here

As Elena pointed out, Moleskine ( pronounced Mol eh skein ah)is a pricey brand of notebook, sketchbook. Their sketch books come in 2 sizes, and the pages have been described by some detractors as being like card stock. I wouldn't go that far, it is very good for dry media and light w/c washes. They do make a watercolor version with decent w/c pages.
I am somewhat enamored with Moleskine, despite their price but another brand I have been currently flirting with is Hand Book Journal. They have a lot of fans too, and they are not as expensive.
Whew! Hope I didn't go overboard with the explanation.
Cheers,
Trish

Met an old friend from school and autumn has come.

Met an old friend from school and autumn has come.

my sketchbook doodles with crayolas crayons. The lotus is from memory after seeing it in Beijing, was done in Cp at the hotel.

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Helped my Mum in the kitchen today.
I hate cookery. Seriously.

Really? I love cooking! I do most of the cooking in this house!

If you also like to experiment, Steve, here are my cooking pages.

my gourmet cooking

I'm with you siks - hate cooking. I think the only reason I have a stove is because building code requires it.

If not a great cook, you are a great sketcher, siks.
I love your rooster, Elena! Hope siks is not going to cook it now.

This is a toddler in the nearby park insisting to give me a chestnut or an acorn - don't know what.

What a great idea Sveta - your drawings are always so.... WOW!!!

Elena, i love the colorful memories you have

Siks, cooking is one of my favorite things to do - look at cooking like it's an art and not a chore PS. Great sketch

Don't worry. I cook only when I'm forced to do that. But one thing - I never touch meat. I can eat it. I'm not a vegetarian. But I just can't stand the smell and the feeling of raw meat. Sometimes I feel like vomiting only after a short glance at it. I never understood why.

Fantastic sketch. I thought not to sketch today (got a lot of work to do till tomorrow), but your drawing inspired me to pick my pencils at least for a minute.

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It's my hat that everybody today noticed. Maybe because it has been a long time since I last wore it.
Musical notes represent music still ringing in my head after my guitar lesson.

Lovely musical hat.
I had very little spare time today, too - here are my quick sketches of the Treasure hunter - I gave that name to a dog I watched yesterday in the park - running around like mad, finding things like half eaten corns, chestnuts,walnuts, ping-pong balls, branches, twigs, etc. hiding them beside a rosebush, peeing over them...and then again making new tours.

Awesome sketch of the dog in the park. I love how you dropped in the watercolor, it just adds the right touch and lifts it from ordinary to outstanding.

Sveta, that is fantastic! I love it. And I also love your musical hat siks. In fact! I love hats alltogether!

Went to pick up my son from football practice. I had to wait about 20 min. Decided to do some sketches in meantime. I know, this a thread for drawing from memory, but drawing moving body is almost the same. At least for me. All those twisted bodies and angles... and all this happens so fast. Anyway, here they are.

If it doesn't suit here, let me know. I'll take it down.

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Very well captured movements! I'm glad you joined in, that's great.

A balcony scene of one of my cats talking to a stray cat in the backyard.

You're great at figure drawing, sipsik! Can't imagine how fast you had to draw...

I like the composition of this one, Sveta! I especially like how you did the hands and the fur on your cat.

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Do you play chess, Agne?
I had no choice but to walk for quite awhile behind this brave high-heeled, talking on her mobile and gesticulating woman(in a narrow street, old uneven pavement, in the rain)...Have to describe it with so many words, because it's only a clumsy sketch.

I have just started it yesterday. I knew how those figures move earlier but yesterday I took it up more seriously. Let's wait and see for how long.

Clumsy sketch? The only thing that might be clumsy is her left foot but who cares about it? It even adds some special feeling to it. Like it's moving in an odd way, the rain is washing down some pieces of her movement there and there.

Sorry, no contributions from me today.

Lovely sketch and the shading is perfect

Not clumsy at all, and you really didn't have to include all the text, the sketch speaks for itself. The expression that comes to mind is from current American vernacular, "Baby's got back" (translation: she has a BIG behind) LOL

This is a fantastic thread and a fantastic sketch!!! I hope to have time to contribute to it...if not I will definitely be following along!

Laura

Thank you, Laura! I'd love to see the memories of more and more people here.
Here is my yesterday's experience - a very tall rose blossoming in our backyard, a niece of mine showing off with her very thick and complicated plait and a small man, probably homeless, giving something to a bunch of tiny cats.

Sveta, your sketches have such detail even when they're form memory. Fantastic!

Laura, I'm looking forward to see your drawings!

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I love the gloves!

sipsik,
These sketches are wonderful...so full of life and movement! Well done!
Laura

Here's a strange thing I noticed yesterday in a little garden nearby, next to a building site, there was a pair of shoes, which were arranged as if to be darwn.

I like this sketch very much. You have highlighted a very small piece of the world and did it with elegance.

What size were they?

Sorry, I didn't go to look at the size. But if you are looking for your shoes, I might go and check - they are still there.

Fantastic shoes, Sveta!

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It's windy today.

These are beautiful, Siks! I've been waiting for you to share one of your memorable moments. Hope you are not too cold though!

WOW!!! I love this one

Dead trees in the park.

Last week was foggy, rainy and cold. Today Indian summer has come and as I was coming back from work, I took a rest in front of an Art gallery - noticed three little girls, one of them gesticulating and telling a "great" story, the other two looking at her sceptically.

Thank Art gallery should be a fantastic building! Great sketches.
Sorry, but I really don't have any time to draw these days. And when I would have five minutes, I realise that I spent my day running and not paying attention to the world around me. Really frustrating.
Thank you for inspiration. And showing me that there's a lot of wonderful views around me that I pass each day and don't even see.

This is fantastic!

Fantastic challenge, Sweta! I was absent and did not know this! Here is a swan, souvenir from the last holidays. I'll come back often. Great challenge to practice drawing live or from memory. Thanks,
NV An