Pedro Loureiro Pedro Loureiro

Grotesque people and places

There’s something about misshapen sketches that attracts and amuses the eye – take gothic gargoyles and modern caricatures, a child’s ginger bread house or the latest Frank Gehry’s design – grotesque portraits and architecture sketches, when done with care, are fun to make and to look at.

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Pedro Loureiro Pedro Loureiro

#OneWeek100Hands2018

Remember the Japanese folding sketchbook from last year? I filled one side of it with a crowd! I’m planning to finally fill the blank side, and I’m keeping my promise to Carla Silveira and Celeste Vaz Ferreira, who, one year ago, suggested on instagram that I should do one hundred hands next. Thanks for the idea girls!

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The human puxada

The day before yesterday, I became a human puxada! I was scheduled for a sleep study, for which, the clinic staff took an hour an a half to attach, glue and connect all the 15 terminals that were to record my sleep patterns.

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Adventures in technicolor

It’s been a month now since Marina Grechanik’s workshop in Lisboa and it’s still kicking in. I’ve been experimenting a lot with ecolines, waterwashes as sketching base, big contrasts and form simplification.

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#OneWeek100People2017

Last week, Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes challenged sketchers worldwide to spend a workweek sketching one hundred people.

Thousands of people took the challenge worldwide. Liz and Marc can be proud that they made the world sketch quickly and loosely for a single week.

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