Hong Kong Sketchbook

Last time, I mentioned that a spent a few weeks abroad, in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Japan...and then (more locally) in Nebraska. 

Here are a few sketchbook pages from the Hong Kong portion of the trip.

I got into Hong Kong late. I took the express train from the airport over to Hong Kong island, where I stayed for nearly two weeks. I was visiting an international school where I talked about making books. (see more about school visits here.)

I stayed in a neighborhood called Tai Hang which was walking distance to Causeway Bay, but felt quiet and secluded. I loved it.

Here's my view of the harbor from my hotel room.

My goal with keeping a sketchbook on the trip was not to document every single moment, but instead to just highlight specific bits that stood out. I also kept a running bulleted list in my sketchbook (not shown) of what I ate, places I saw, etc.

Here's a link to the pens and sketchbook stuff I like to carry.

The hotel played a documentary about whales on a tiny screen in the elevator. I always seemed to catch it (was that pun on purpose!?) at the same spot.

More food sketches.

My first car was a '91 Geo Prizm (sorry to brag!) and the body style and color of the taxis in Hong Kong looked exactly like it.

My favorite way of getting around Hong Kong was the "ding ding." It's an inexpensive, hop-on-hop-off style tram that goes through the city. 

(drawn in ink and colored in Procreate)

The school where I was speaking was over on the other side of the island, in Repulse Bay. One rainy afternoon, between presentations, I walked to Tin Hau Temple.

More food drawings! 
(Drawn in pencil. The humidity started making it difficult to do ink drawings and I switched to pencil halfway through the trip.)

After the school visits were over, three friends met me in Hong Kong and we spent a few days exploring the city. Here's a drawing of lunch in a small restaurant in an alley in Tai Hang (drawn in ink in my sketchbook and colored in Procreate).

I also took a ferry out to TAI O, a small fishing village where the houses are built on stilts over the water. (I made a longer comic about this that I'll post soon.)

In my next newsletter we're off to Vietnam! See you there. 

Thanks for reading,