Izzy said, "And why not paint the ugly things and try to make them at least interesting? The beautiful things have their admirers already.When we sketch, the image passes through the human eye through the heart to the hand. And love is added along the way; if we didn't see something to love about it, we wouldn't be sketching it."
Leen Van Bogart said, “In the western world the idea of beauty finds its roots in Greek mythology and is associated with order, control, symmetry (kosmos) as opposed to disorder and absence of control (chaos). If we translate this idea to sketching you could say a sketch is ugly when we lose control of at least one of our sketching tools ( hands, arms, sight, concentration, too much flow of ink, etc).”
The happy mistake can turn into a amazing sketch! It makes a great discussion and an interesting dilemma in picking works to present here on the USK Blog. Should I select the sketches so ugly they are beautiful, which often I think should be the very definition of a sketch! Or should I select the ugly subjects that have been internalized and made to be beautiful?
Billbtw nicely expressed my confusion, “What do we mean when we say ugly is beautiful? Ugly place, beautiful sketch? Or place that's so ugly it's beautiful?” Here are a few of both!

iss1zzy, Costa Rica

leenvanbogaert, Luxemburg

billbtw, United Kingdom
Their is still time to participate in this weeks theme July 21 - July 27 Outdoor Animals
Leen Van Bogart said, “In the western world the idea of beauty finds its roots in Greek mythology and is associated with order, control, symmetry (kosmos) as opposed to disorder and absence of control (chaos). If we translate this idea to sketching you could say a sketch is ugly when we lose control of at least one of our sketching tools ( hands, arms, sight, concentration, too much flow of ink, etc).”
The happy mistake can turn into a amazing sketch! It makes a great discussion and an interesting dilemma in picking works to present here on the USK Blog. Should I select the sketches so ugly they are beautiful, which often I think should be the very definition of a sketch! Or should I select the ugly subjects that have been internalized and made to be beautiful?
Billbtw nicely expressed my confusion, “What do we mean when we say ugly is beautiful? Ugly place, beautiful sketch? Or place that's so ugly it's beautiful?” Here are a few of both!

iss1zzy, Costa Rica

leenvanbogaert, Luxemburg

billbtw, United Kingdom
Their is still time to participate in this weeks theme July 21 - July 27 Outdoor Animals