First Sketch in NYC

Echo Xu
Echo Xu
Sep 5, 2018 · 2 min read

Noise affects our patience, work efficiency, and eventually our health. Being a new number of NYC, I found the sound of the city was not that comfortable as I expected especially in Manhattan. So I made my own brush which could be affected by the noises around. More uncontrolled lines would be created when the noise level is high. And then I tried to make my first sketch in different places in NYC.


I finished my first sketch at home with all the window closed to debug. The work showed like that:

Then, I visited several places in NYC where the noise made my brush hard to control:

There are still some sketches that were given up:


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A member of Design and Technology, Parsons.

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