Quick sketches from Istanbul

It's been a long while since I've had time to update this blog --- mostly since this past semester was hell (22 credits + 2 senior theses), and I've been out of the country, doing a field geology program in Turkey.  In what time I have before I begin graduate school at the University of Arizona, I'm hoping to do a bit of drawing to catch up, and maybe show some of my more 'artistic' photos from my summer travels abroad.  (Some photos are bound to come out looking nice, when I take a couple thousand photos.)

Below are two relatively quick sketches I did earlier today of architecture in Istanbul.  The first is the Hagia Sophia, and the second is the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (or the "Blue Mosque").  They were done with graphite pencil on simple sketchbook paper.