The Walk-Through — A Sketching Adventure on the High Line

The Walk-Through — A Sketching Adventure on the High Line

We're not going to sit in one spot and draw the same tree for two hours.
We're walking the High Line — 14th to 23rd — and stopping three times. Each stop, you've got 8 minutes to sketch whatever is immediately around you. The view, a stranger, a rusted rail, the way the city stacks up behind the plants. No prompt, no theme. Just look at what's in front of you and draw it.

At the end, you've got three drawings that happened in order. Three moments from the same walk. The fun and slightly challenging part is to write one sentence that connects them into a loose story!

That's it. That's the whole exercise.
We're not teaching you how to draw. We're not running a class. We just know that the most overlooked part of animation isn't the animation, it's knowing how to let a place carry a story. The High Line does something weird over a short distance. The environment shifts, the light changes, the people change. It's basically a storyboard that already exists. We're just sketching into it.

Bring whatever you draw with. Sketchbook, loose paper, iPad — doesn't matter. After the walk, we'll find a spot nearby, lay out what we made, and hang out.

Meet us at 1pm at the High Line entrance on Gansevoort St & Washington St — that's the southernmost entrance, street level, you'll see the stairs going up. We're leaving at 1:10 so if you're running late, shoot me a message on meetup and we'll hold up.

Come as you are. No pressure to be good. 🎬