Sketchy Collective: Helsinki Drawing Meetup (15:00 Helsinki time)

HOW TO FIND US

Outdoors ☀️🌻: We meet every Sunday at 15:00 in the Töölönlahti Park, opposite the entrance to Pikku-Finlandia. If you’re walking from Oodi, pass the playground with the big swings and the volleyball court. On the left, you’ll find us in the area with benches, hammocks, and yellow chairs.

Indoors ⛈️ 🥶: When it's cold or rainy we move to the top floor of the Oodi Library, on the stairs opposite the children’s area.

To everyone who has already participated in our meetups:
We want to make it as easy as possible for newcomers to find us, whether we're meeting outdoors or indoors. If you have any suggestions for how we could improve these directions or make our meeting spots easier to find, we'd greatly appreciate a message.

It's a good idea to keep your sketchbook visible so others can easily recognize that you're there for the sketching meetup.

HOW IT WORKS

At each meetup, attendees take turns being the model for a quick 10-minute sketch session. One person poses, everyone else sketches, then we rotate.

Attendance varies considerably from week to week. Some Sundays attract a larger group, while on others only a handful of people may attend. Occasionally, nobody may show up at all. The organizer is currently not based in Helsinki and does not attend the meetups, so the gathering is entirely community-driven.

For this reason, we encourage everyone to participate with an open mind and flexible expectations. Whether you spend the afternoon sketching with many people, just a few, or simply enjoying some focused drawing time on your own, we hope you'll embrace the experience as it is.

WHAT TO BRING

Pencils and paper (or any sketching tools you like).

It’s encouraged to bring some props to make drawings more varied and playful. 👘👒💐🍍🫖🏸🤿🎭🎺🔮🧸📣

No fees, no pressure. The only thing we ask is that everyone takes a turn posing for the group. You can sit however feels comfortable for you. We encourage people to experiment with different poses from round to round to keep the drawings interesting, but this isn't a yoga session - there's no expectation to do anything difficult or uncomfortable. ☺️

Draw as much as you like, skip a round if you're tired or just want to chat, and leave whenever it suits you. The event continues as long as there's interest.

STAYING CONNECTED

Anyone who has attended at least one meetup is welcome to join our WhatsApp group. If you’d like to be added, just ask around at the meetup - several community members can approve new participants, and there’s usually at least one of them present.

Alternatively, send us a message with your phone number (including the country code) and a photo proving that you attended a meetup.

This measure helps prevent spam and advertising in the WhatsApp group.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Curious about our work?
👉 instagram.com/sketchy.collective

If you’d like to share your drawings from the meetup, you can send them on WhatsApp group or use the Instagram collab function. We warmly encourage everyone to share their work and take part in building our international sketching gallery - together with artists from all the cities where Sketchy Collective meetups are organized.

PHOTO CONSENT

Photos may be taken during the meetup and shared on our social media. If you don’t want to appear in photos, just let the photographer know.

If you’re taking photos, please make sure people know about it and can choose whether they want to be included or not.

If you share a group photo in our WhatsApp group, we'll assume you've already checked that everyone in the photo is happy to be photographed and has agreed that the photo may be shared on our social media.