A Sketch of Prague, Every Day for a Year

My mother told me about my first drawing, which she wasn’t very happy about. I was two or three years old, and I took red lipstick and drew all over the apartment, including her white sheets! I started at an art school when I was four years old.

It was July 19, 2015, after attending a yoga camp in Latvia. I was having a difficult time, after a breakup, and was really questioning whether I wanted to stay in Prague and continue my studies.

I realized that I wanted to do something for myself. On the last day of the retreat, I came up with the idea to capture that moment. It was a sunny day in a beautiful forest, and I just made a sketch. I told myself that as long as I was traveling, I would do one sketch every day, to be creative and keep myself motivated.

Sometimes I don’t know what to draw, so I just think, “Where have I not been?” Every time I have a destination in mind, I end up drawing something else because on the way I pass a place with beautiful light, a nice church, or a park. They kind of come naturally.

In the beginning, about forty minutes, but now it’s usually half an hour. To be honest, I don’t have time for more than that because I’m working in a graphics studio, Grafikshop, and studying full-time.

Right now, I just really look forward to these thirty minutes. It’s like a small meditation each day with paper and pencil. Of course, I’m so happy that people enjoy my sketches, but for me, those thirty minutes are also my happy moments.

I really enjoyed Vyšehrad, and the church next to Charles Bridge, and I really like drawing in small coffee shops. But my favorite was a waterfall, which wasn’t in Prague but in the countryside, when I was walking with my Czech friends.

Never. In the beginning, I made a rule for myself. I was going to draw something every day and, no matter how perfect or imperfect it was, I would post it. For me, it was about realizing that it wasn’t perfect and feeling comfortable with that.

Very Sarie, Cocorina, Donald Young, Karolie and Supakitch. I really like 16th-century artists, and I like Impressionism and Expressionism because all of those artists were really unique. And lately, I’ve been really inspired by Czech typographic designers. I live and work with so many great designers, and I get inspiration from all of them.

One of my dreams is to work with Penguin and illustrate a children’s book.

I’ve developed some postcards, which will go on sale soon. They will be bound, and the first set will be from the first sketchbook, from my thirty-six days of summer travel. That one will be a limited edition. Then, as a second issue, I would like to do a box of Prague pictures that includes all the postcards.