front view of the Sewoon Shopping Center from Jongno 3-ga, pen and watercolor, (36 x51cm)
scenery of the the cityscape of old and new buildings viewed from the rooftop garden, pen and watercolor, (36 x51cm)
scenery of Cheonggyecheon viewed from the bridge on the 3rd floor between the Sewoon Shopping Center and the Daelim Shopping center, pen and watercolor, (36 x51cm)
entrance of the electronics shopping mall from sidewalk and road, pencil and watercolor, (36 x51cm)
the Daelim Shopping Center viewed from the bridge on the 3rd floor, pencil, (30 x 42cm)
a quick sketch of the Sewoon Shopping Center, pencil, (30 x 42cm)
Last Saturday, for the 61st World Wide SketchCrawl, our Seoul urban sketchers met at open square in front of Sewoon Plaza building in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Sewoon Shopping Center is the most famous electronics shopping area located between Jongno 3-ga and Toegyero 3-ga, which was well-known place as a symbol of the modernization of the electronics industry from the 1960s. But the Sewoon Shopping mall complex became old and deteriorated over the years, it has been remodeled from time to time as the need arises. Recently, The Dasi Sewoon Project transformed the old Sewoon Shopping Center into a hub of new industry through urban regeneration.
It was so fine weather for sketching the newly renovated Sewoon Shopping Mall. I was impressed by the mixture of old and new buildings under the colorful urban skyline, walking along the three-story overhead pedestrian bridge between Sewoon Shopping Center and Daelim Shopping Center, which provided us with various attractions. Furthermore, Sewoon Plaza rooftop garden on the 9th floor is the best place to sketch colorful panoramic scenes of Seoul in all directions. I sketched the various scenes spread out horizontally before my eyes. While sketching the urbanscapes along the high-level pedestrian bridge and the rooftop garden, I experienced the diverse feeling of different eye level, new perspectives, free spaces from the crowds and vehicles, and so on. It was a pleasant and valuable sketch time in the bustling downtown Seoul.