Feeling the pressure to make the most of your time in isolation to learn new skills + be productive? If you haven’t quite lived up to your own lofty expectations of what you should be accomplishing, you're not alone. Spend 30 minutes with me in my sketchbook and learn what's been working for me as I design an invented architectural folly.

Time spent in my sketchbook is focused and without distraction. It’s space to think and be creative without the strict boundaries of budgets and schedules. It’s reminded me that not everything I design needs to be rooted in reality, that daydreaming and suspending the laws of physics have value too and can nourish my architecture practice in meaningful ways. Inventing imaginary architecture can be a source of control in a time when agency is in short supply. For me, it’s been an enriching, liberating win in this time of quarantine. I hope spending a few minutes with me in my (digital) sketchbook designing a Quarantine Chapel - whatever that is - will inspire you to get lost in your own sketchbook for an hour or two. And, if you build a few skills along the way, all the better!

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Assets Used in this Sketch (most are custom + included in the 30X40 Procreate Pack):

• App: Procreate

• Canvas + Color palette: Blueprint

• Brushes: Kuru Toga, Soft Colored Pencil, Sign Pen, Dotted Line Round, Dashed Line, Clouds Structured, Willow Charcoal.

• Stamp Brushes: 45-degree grid, Target, H-uman

• Vegetation Brushes: long grass, grass 3, deciduous 1 + deciduous 2 trees

• Tablet: iPad Pro 11”

• Stylus: Apple Pencil (2nd Gen)

• Screen: Matte Screen Protector

• Track to sketch to: Code Orange - Underneath