Olve from Norway, a frequent visitor to Japan, called for a sketch gathering in Tokyo, so we USK Japan members and some more visitors/ residents from overseas met and had great fun time in Kagurazaka, Tokyo. 日本大好きノルウェーから来たOlveの呼びかけで神楽坂スケッチ会を持ちました。 We actually had sketch session in the same place early in this year, but that's OK! I love this place. There are many unique slopes ( which are so challenging and fascinating to tackle with), many good restaurants ( wish I could try multiple lunch menu a day.) 今年２度目となる舞台の神楽坂は描くとこ満載、食べるとこいっぱい。ランチ選びに迷ういいところなので、２度でも歓迎。 Since the area is consisted of such narrow alleys, instead of staying all together in one place, as is always the case, we scatter around and each individuals found their own best location to sketch, then after going back to the meeting location, we lined up our resulting sketches on the ground and found variety of unique point of views as well as new techniques. That's WOW time. やはり狭い道ばかりの地域なので皆散らばって、思い思いの場所...

We Urban Sketchers Japan had such a fun time in a special sketch meet-up, “Faber-Castell Presents Jens Hübner’s Urban Sketch Workshop” at Hibiya Park. We received exclusively provided art materials by Faber-Castell ( thanks so much for the company and DKSH Japan) , we experimented them after German travel sketcher, Jens Hübner, taught the way how to use them in his short demo. These materials are going to become my must sketch gear from now on. “Faber-Castell Presents Jens Hübner’s Urban Sketch Workshop”と題したFaber-Castell、旅するUrban Sketcher、 Jens Hübnerさん、そしてUSK Japanのコラボレーションのスケッチイベントを日比谷公園内で開催し、Jens氏によるファーバーカステルの画材の使い方の説明デモを受けた後に、このイベントのためにファーバーカステルよりご提供いただいた画材を試しながらいつものように各々が好きな場所へ散らばってスケッチしました。 We all inspired by his demo, concise and articulated ways of technic and expressions. we enjoyed experimenting the art materials most of which we used for the first time! We were just like “kids got los of new toy “ mode. Jens氏のデモはそれぞれの画材（カステル鉛筆、水彩色鉛筆、キャップ型消しゴム、ウォーターブラシとそのキャップ、P...