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Wilson Yau: I draw, teach and make stuff

  • Digital drawings
    • Suburban dreams: Lockdown in Birmingham
    • Commutes
    • About my digital drawings
    • Start drawing (digitally), NOW!
    • Birmingham Central Library
    • Colouring-in sheets (free download)
    • Food
    • ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe
    • London architecture
    • Norwegian
    • War cemeteries, Ieper, Belgium
  • Drawing experiments
  • Models
    • Handmade architectural models
    • 3D printing
  • Shop
    • Etsy
    • Market dates
  • Teaching
  • About me / contact
Notting Hill Carnival, Victoria line, London, 25th August 2019

Sketches of my commutes – Have I drawn you?

Drawings of London's Tube

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iPad drawing of a river and trees

Suburban dreams: Lockdown in Birmingham

iPad drawings from lockdown

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Drawing made using a twig and acrylic paint

Daily drawing experiments in lockdown

Working in different media

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iPad drawing of Electric Avenue in the evening, with fruit stalls and crowds of people.

Not quite Edward Hopper, but very much Brixton. Brixton Market along world-famous Electric Avenue is full of life, even during the UK’s third Covid-19 lockdown. The mood changes throughout the day and on one early evening the light coming from the fruit stalls looked quite beautiful. The market has a […]

Electric Avenue, Brixton, London, 8th January 2021

iPad drawing of a tree covered in red leaves next to a pond with reflections of trees.

iPad drawings capturing the changing seasons in my local park in London. September   Nature in 2020 continued to be important after the first UK lockdown, when green spaces provided refuge from the uncertainties of the Covid-19 pandemic. When I returned to London after shielding with family, I reacquainted myself […]

iPad drawings: Autumn in Brockwell Park, London, 2020

iPad drawing of the outside of the entrance of Brixton tube station in the evening, lots of people are walking, standing or hcatting outside, one person is singing, above is the lit neon sign with the words 'Electric Avenue'.

People are what make Brixton an amazing place. It’s good to be back. The people in my picture I spotted outside Brixton Underground station over the course of two months. This drawing was started two days after I returned to Brixton, after having spent five months shielding in Birmingham. I […]

Return to London: Evening in Brixton, 20th August 2020

Screenshot of The Big Draw in conversation with Wilson Yau

YouTube video: The Big Draw in conversation with Wilson Yau, RIBA On 24th June 2020, I had a fantastic conversation with The Big Draw Director, Kate Mason, about drawing, what its means to me and about my work. Using architecture as inspiration, I also demonstrated new ways to draw using basic […]

Video: In conversation with The Big Draw, June 2020

Drawing of night time at Piccadilly Circus, London, England

One last sketch. The atmosphere in London was so different; its usual energy had been replaced by a sense of uncertainty. Walking home to the Tube station that day, passing the sights and landmarks of one of the greatest cities on Earth, it was odd to see them mostly quiet. […]

Goodbye, London – for now, see you soon, 18th March …

Digital drawing of a scene on the Tube, London

A place to rest… My first Tube drawing of 2020 was started on my return to work from my long Christmas/New Year break. I was struck by the sight of a man meditating, in the midst of the rush-hour crowds he seemed so calm. Around me, were people watching their […]

Meditating, Wednesday morning, Victoria line, 8th January 2020

Drawing of the inside of Chris’s Cafe, Digbeth

A place to discover a cheap meal and more about coaches.   Love fry ups, love coaches? Then you’ll enjoy this place. Next to Birmingham’s main coach station is Chris’s Cafe, in Digbeth. Inside this friendly cafe, the walls are covered in jauntily positioned framed photos of different buses, and […]

Chris’s Cafe, Digbeth, Birmingham, 2nd January 2020

Notting Hill Carnival, Victoria line, London, 25th August 2019

The carnival continues underground. This one took a long time to draw, I just had other things to do and there was never enough commute time! But I had fond memories of this journey. I hadn’t realised the carnival was on, as I was out of London and visiting friends […]

Notting Hill Carnival, Victoria line, London, 25th August 2019

Drawing of Express Cafe, Brixton

A good place to think. Becoming lost in melancholic thoughts under harsh lighting whilst sitting on a fixed plastic seat – it’s one of the early morning pleasures of sitting alone in a perfect greasy spoon with old-fashioned prices. Inside the famous Brixton Market is Express Cafe, very close to where I […]

Express Cafe, Brixton Market, London, 30th November 2019

Flying hair, Victoria line, London, 18th July 2019

Even in summer, a breeze may not be a relief on the Tube... This one is of a Tube journey when there was a bit of a breeze through the carriage as the train moved. Sadly, despite its strength, the wind is never particularly cooling when the Tube is already […]

Flying hair, Victoria line, London, 18th July 2019

Dogs, coffee and phones, Victoria line, 3rd May 2019

Just another morning commute… It was a busy morning and there was plenty of activity in my carriage. The person next to me was playing Candy Crush game on their mobile, I’m guessing to everyone else I must have been doing the same on my phone – but no, I […]

Dogs, coffee and phones, Victoria line, 3rd May 2019

Curtains, Victoria Line, 3rd March 2019

There was a lot of fabric. I had to draw this in reverse, as the woman on the right of this was sat next to me. She had surprised me by pulling out of a bag a huge length of fabric, possibly old curtains, and I think she was picking […]

Curtains, Victoria Line, London, 3rd March 2019

Friday night, Central line, Liverpool Street to Notting Hill stations, London, 11th January 2019

They weren’t always arguing, sometimes they didn’t talk… I only use the Central line occasionally, that time the Tube got me to a friend’s house and not to work! This drawing is mainly two journeys combined into one, both from the same line that evening, with the second trip covering my […]

Friday night, Central line, London, 11th January 2019

I’ve seen bigger plants being carried on the Underground… The woman carrying the pot of peace lilies caught my eye whilst I was returning home in the evening on the Victoria line. It’s always quite a risk carrying delicate plants on the crowded underground, but I’ve seen people skillfully transport […]

Peace lilies, Victoria line, London, 1st November 2018

Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool, England, 23rd November 2018

A great city with amazing architecture. Drawn from a photograph I took in 2017. Last year I was lucky enough to visit the city and explore its great architecture, such as Pier Head. This drawing is of the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, located just behind Pier Head, it’s […]

Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool, 2018

Saturday evening, Elm Park to Victoria, District line, 25th August 2018

I didn’t go to the festival, but I was hearing all about it… It was a long and entertaining journey from a house party near Elm Park back to Brixton. On the District line, I ended up on the same carriage as a lot of people coming from a music festival in […]

After the pop festival, District line, 25th August 2018

Saturday afternoon, Victoria to Upton Park, District line, London, 18th August 2018 (Drawing 1124)

So many things one can do with a digital device. I wasn’t going to or from work on this Tube journey, for a change, I was heading to a paaaaarty! In this carriage, I spotted people using their smartphones or tablet for many things. Obviously, I was drawing; other people […]

Digital devices, District line, London, 18th August 2018

Child eating breakfast, 8.50am, Saturday 30th June 2018, Brixton to Oxford Circus stations, Victoria line, London, England (Drawing 1117)

The morning I got food envy… The dad in this picture was asking his young daughter: “Are you still hungry, had enough?”. As she was eating, he explained the meaning of the colours of the lines o the Tube map, especially “the green and yellow ones”. This scene is not very […]

Family breakfast, Victoria line, 30th June 2018

Pull ups in rush hour, 7.45am Monday, 21st May 2018, Brixton to Oxford Circus stations, Victoria line, London, England (Drawing 1115)

Combining the gym with commuting. Multitasking, London style.   I went in earlier than usual to work that day. When I boarded the Tube carriage, I spotted a middle-aged man doing several pull-ups before the train left the station. Over the course of seven weeks, made up of at least […]

Exercising on the underground, Victoria line, 21st May 2018

Putting on makeup, 9.10am Tuesday, 24th April 2018, Brixton to Oxford Circus stations, Victoria line, London, England (Drawing 1111)

It’s not just about having steady hands, it’s a skill! With a steady hand and good coordination, this woman managed to apply blusher on her cheeks as the train moved between Brixton and Oxford Circus stations. It was crowded during the morning rush hour, but I spotted her in a gap […]

Putting on make-up, rush hour, Victoria line, 24th April 2018

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