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Internship in Helsinki leads to sketching adventure, book deal

T.K. Justin Ng, a 21-year-old architecture student at the University of Waterloo in Canada, recently spent a six-month internship at an architecture firm based in Helsinki. The stay abroad also gave him the opportunity to make many sketches of the Finnish capital and create a book, “An Urban Sketcher’s Guide to Helsinki,” that was just published by Nemo. USk Blog editor Gabi Campanario asked T.K. some questions about his experience drawing in a new city and getting his work published.

Photo by Peter Kwak

How long has it been since you started urban sketching?
I have been sketching since 2013 when I was a high schooler in love with contemporary art but not entirely sure if I wanted to study architecture. Little did I know, four years later, I would publish an 180-page book filled with sketches and writing about my travels near and around Helsinki.

Tell us about your experience in Helsinki.
As an urban sketcher and architecture student, I was ecstatic to live in a city famous for its design culture and began sketching Helsinki almost every day. Prior to my internship, I 'trained' myself to sketch in the cold and drew on the streets of Toronto during Christmas time in -10C. Contrary to my habits from sketching in the tropical city of Hong Kong, I learned to sit in the sun and sit near building entrances, hoping for a few seconds of warmth every couple of minutes.

I couldn't help but feel a little lonely....There aren't a lot of people on the streets in the winter so I joined some events hosted by the local universities....Education in Finland is free for all European citizens so there were a lot of students coming from all over Europe, and I had the chance to meet this diverse group of people ranging from Croatians to Dutch.

My housemate, Tuomas, a law student, taught me a lot about the city and brought me to have the best Finnish meatballs in Helsinki.

A peek inside "An Urban Sketcher's Guide to Helsinki," a 180-page book by T.K. Justin Ng

How did the idea of doing a book came about?
As I was about to finish my first sketchbook, I thought that it would be nice if I could do something with the drawings. I began emailing publishers to ask if they might be interested in publishing a book with my sketches. Weeks went by without success, but a woman from one of the larger publishers referred me to a smaller publisher called Nemo. I was signed to Nemo Publishing, working on a book about a city I knew little about at the time.

Over the next two to three months, I began researching more about Finland's history from the Swedish era to the Russian era. The sun sets really early in the winter in Helsinki, so I would sketch before I went to work, then scan the drawings and write the book after work in a cafe. On the weekends, I would travel away from the city centre, to other parts of Helsinki or entirely different cities like Porvoo and Turku.

Now that your internship is over, do you see Helsinki in your future?
I don't know when I will visit Helsinki again, but I look forward to the day I can revisit the places I sketched, maybe in the summer this time.

What advice do you have to other urban sketchers who would like to publish their work?
Although I am just a first-time author, I think that it comes down to having lots of drawings that show different facets of a place. After that, it comes down to marketing yourself and contacting publishers. I think that my book would not have been possible without the support I have gained from social media.

To see more of T.K. Justin NG’s work, visit his website at http://ift.tt/2vWh8fI.

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