Sketch Your Travels by Kukki Times

SF PEN SHOW 2026

"The best souvenir is the one you draw yourself."

A free travel sketching seminar for pen lovers, journalers, and anyone who has ever wanted to do more than photograph a place.

SAVE MY SPOT

FREE · 60 MINUTES · ONLY 20 SEATS · WESTIN SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT · MILLBRAE, CA

Every trip has a story. Sketching is just another way to tell it.

Sketch Your Travels is about documenting your journeys through sketching, drawing, and journaling — using your pen as a creative tool, not just a writing instrument. A way to sit with a place longer. To notice the small details that usually go unnoticed — a road sign, a storefront, the shape of a door. To come home with pages that hold the feeling of a place, not just the look of it.

This is a one-hour seminar for anyone who loves journaling their travels and is quietly curious how you can use sketching as your creative outlet — using your pen as a creative tool, not just a writing instrument. We'll look at real travel journal spreads, talk honestly about process and tools, and sketch together live. Conversational, no pressure, no art background needed.

Just bring your pens and favourite art tools.

WHEN Aug 29 · 12:30–1:30 PM

WHERE Westin SF Airport · 7th Floor

DURATION 60 Minutes

COST Free

— An honest understanding of how a travel journal spread comes together
— The confidence to start a page — anywhere, anytime
— A Kukki Times kit to take home

YOUR KIT INCLUDES

— An illustrated postcard of the pen show venue
— Sketch Your Travels - Notes from the Field · A Kukki Times mini zine
— A Kukki Times sticker

A photo takes a second. You see something beautiful, you raise your phone, and you move on. The moment is captured but you weren't really in it.

A sketch takes time. You sit with a place. You look at it longer than you've looked at anything all day. You start noticing things that usually go unnoticed — a road sign, a storefront, the shape of a door. The small details that make a place that place, and nowhere else.

It's not about making something beautiful. It's about being present. About recording how a place felt, not just what it looked like.

"What matters isn't when you sketch. It's that you do. Because I remember every sketch I've ever made. I couldn't tell you what most of my photos are of."

Real pages. Real trips.

VIETNAM, 2025

ACADIA, 2026

STATE COLLEGE, PA

YOUR HOST

@kukkitimes

Kukki Times is my creative newspaper. I document life and travel through watercolor and ink — cities I've wandered through, mornings worth remembering, the small details that usually go unnoticed. I've been filling journals for years. Each one a record of being somewhere and paying attention.

I started sketching my travels because writing about a place never felt like enough. There was always something the words couldn't hold. A color, a texture, the exact way a street felt at 8 in the morning. Sketching got closer to that feeling.

Sketch Your Travels is my first public seminar. I'm building it the same way I build every journal page — honestly, and one moment at a time.

"Starting a new sketchbook used to feel terrifying. Putting the first line of ink on a fresh page felt like too much. And then I had a thought — this is not a gallery. It's my sketchbook. To record this moment, the way I am perceiving it."

"I sat on a cliff in Maine for two hours. I drew it. I painted it. And I remember that feeling — how present I was. A photo from that same day? I'd scroll past it."