I’m a member of uskseoul. Each Sunday morning, a couple of of us collect to do city sketching in a quiet metropolis that’s nonetheless half asleep. On Saturday night, when the time and place are introduced on somebody’s Instagram story, anybody can go and draw. This time, it was Baekbin Crossing close to Yongsan Station, the place my favourite Ok-drama, ‘My Uncle’, was filmed, so I had excessive expectations.
I acquired off at Yongsan Station and walked for 10 minutes, and in the course of the constructing forest, I discovered classic homes, cute and fairly cafes and retailers. The shadows solid by the morning daylight on the quiet homes have been additionally fairly.
Arriving on the crossing, I met about 10 individuals who sat facet by facet and did city sketching. I stretched out my sketchbook and began to attract. I centered on the Hangang Laundry and Yongsan Mill buildings in entrance of me and easily sketched the prepare tracks. I expressed the buildings within the distance solely with colours with out strains.
The title of the laundry store, Hangang, was much more pleasant as a result of it was the identical title as Hangang, who’s the primary Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.
We sat on the facet of the street and sketched. Even the exhaust fumes from the parked vehicles couldn’t cease us. It was a time of focus and immersion. After two hours, we gathered, took photos, had lunch, and went dwelling, ready for somebody’s announcement subsequent week.
Juhee Oh is a math instructor and a member of urbansketchers seoul.
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