Flickr Digest November 22,2014

November 4th 2014, marked the 7th anniversary of USK Flickr. It has been an exciting year with a huge burst in new participation. The Group has gathered 176,000 sketches from around the globe. The other day, I dug really deep and explored the foundations of the group, going all the way back to day 1. It is amazing to see the initial growth, member by member, and it is also really fun to see the technical growth of some of the founding members. Within the group pages you can find strong visual proof of the benefits of sketching every day. Here are some interesting early sketches by Gabi, Flaf, and Jason.

The anniversary and exploration of the groups development has led me to think a lot about the founding ideas of the organization. In my own sketches I have been making and effort to establish a greater sense of immediacy, I have heard it said “to seek verbs as opposed to nouns”. So, I have been particularly in tune to those sketches submitted that have a  stronger sense of a specific moment, action, or general quality of time.

I have always thought immediacy meant a specific kind of line quality, though the USK Flickr submissions have made me aware that it is really something else.

This weeks weekly theme “sketch bomb” a play on photo bombing has really nicely reflected the idea. The submissions are all sketches that have been transformed by the changing environment they were sketched in.

Here are three, that stood out from the general roll.

Si Newell, London Hotel, Southampton, England 

Jean Francois Rousseau, D & 8th st, Washington DC, United States 

Edward Huff, Wyoming Pond, Wyoming, United States