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Sketchbook Dump 001 ☼

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Finished a sketchbook

Earlier this month I finished the square, coral Talens Art Creation sketchbook I’d been working on since…December 2023. 😱

A small, square, coral sketchbook with a cute illustrated sticker of a hedgehog on it

Alas, I don’t know who made this sticker. My brother bought it for me at a thrift shop.

There are a few reasons why it took me this long:

  • Talens Art Creation sketchbooks have a bajillion pages in them
  • I had another sketchbook going in parallel
  • As well as several other creative hobbies

I thought I’d do a quick sketchbook dump of never before seen spreads (AKA pages I haven’t posted to the blog yet).

Movie doodles

Six columns of geometric cairns: stacked shapes in black acrylic marker. In each stack is an orange ball, and it’s positioned in each column to look like it is bouncing across the spread

Doodled while watching Marty Supreme, a much more intense film than the doodles would suggest

Clouds of pink and purple ink blend into each across a sketchbook spread. On the left there are black outlines of stars and comets in black acrylic marker. On the right, the stars are formed by negative space: they are pink and purple in a field of black acrylic marker.

Project Hail Mary scribbles, with black Posca marker over fountain pen ink washes

Scribble Brigades

A few pages from following along with Sophie McPike’s Scribble Brigade workshops (10/10 would recommend!)

Page 1 of me abstracting the harebell flower into different shapes, such as bells and pentagons
Page 2, where the harebell is cropped to rectangle viewports. A couple of these kind of look like an IKEA lamp with multiple bulbs and shades from a central column.
Distorting the various dimensions of the flower
MORE abstractions of the flower. Some of these kind of look like logos.

From a workshop on abstracting flowers

Geometric drawings of simple, bendy trees done in various bright water-based marker colors. The trunks and branches of the trees are done in a Payne's Grey colored pencil
A sketchy crayon drawing of a scene with sunlight passing through some trees in a park. On the right I've written: big, medium, small. Chunk into b, m, s. Then work within that (subdivide b, m, s). Can also do b, m, s in terms of color. There's also a color palette in scribbly circles below the notes.

An abandoned lot, three ways

Drew a weed-choked lot in three different media: (pan-dried) gouache, then Posca acrylic markers, then Neocolor IIs. So interesting to see how the vibe changes based on how my chosen media influences decision- and mark-making.

A small gouache scene with a blue, cloudy sky, dark green conifers, and nondescript buildings behind an abandoned lot. The lot is completely full of weeds in green and burgundy, with pops of white and orange. The mark making is loose and gestural.
The same scene but drawn with acrylic markers. Colors are more vibrant, and shapes are more geometric and playful
The same scene but drawn with Neocolor II pastels. This iteration shows more individual mark-making in crayon-like textures.

The pops of vermilion in the middle of the lot are lilies from days gone by!

On to the next one

Funnily enough, the Stillman & Birn ~A6 Alpha sketchbook I started in March is already 40% full, so I imagine I may fill that one this year!

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