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One of the things I’ve been happiest with in Edinburgh is how active the art scene is over here. There is a lot going on from Urban Sketching to the very friendly if packed Leith School of Art. There are also a couple of very nice series of life drawing classes, which I try to attend semi-regularly. Unfortunately due to corona virus lockdown business can’t go on as usual. Like so many other things, these events are moving online. On the positive side, this of course means that you can join them from wherever you are in the world :) So, if you want to check out how we roll life-drawing-wise, here’s your chance. Reconfigur

This is a bit out of my comfort zone, since I don’t really work in ink normally and haven’t done something like this before, but I hereby promise to take part in Inktober: make an ink drawing every day and post it here. More: https://inktober.com/rules

I came across this article recently: The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities, from DeviantArt to Tumblr. Today, sharing art on social media is like running on a treadmill forever. At least, that’s how illustrator Lois van Baarle describes it. “You have to post constantly,” Van Baarle, who got her start in the early aughts on DeviantArt, explained. “Otherwise, the algorithm decides you’re not interesting, and will not show your posts to your followers.” Before big tech shepherded the vast number of online users onto a handful of sleek websites, there was a scrappier internet—where offbeat chat