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| A selection of sketchbooks from Dick Blick. |
I have a Moleskine 3.5x5.5 scribbler that I carry with me in my pocket pretty much everywhere I go.
I have my trusty Stillman & Birn Beta A5 hardbound sketchbook.
I also have a spiral bound Artist’s Loft sketchbook that I use while watching TV just to practice reportage and likenesses of the characters of the shows I’m watching. I try to do a few pages of each hourlong series I watch each week. I also try to capture a few gestures/likenesses of characters from movies I’m watching.
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| On the Hong Kong Metro. From a video. |
I use the spiral bound sketcher for pretty much everything from trying out new pens, signatures, warm ups such as drawing pages of circles and lines, contours. You name it and I use this book for it.
It’s really the only sketchbook I feel comfortable messing up in. I feel free to try new things, different styles, free association drawing, blind contours, practicing proportions, etc. without worrying that someone else will see them. This is basically my drawing diary that I don’t plan on anyone seeing.
If I happen to have a particular drawing in my spiral that I like a lot I simply tear it out and stick it in my Stillman & Birn.
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| A church in the Philippines. I posted the ink version of this on my last post. |
I'm doing a series on rural life, that I use a Strathmore 400 series 5.5x8.5 that opens to 5.5x17 landscape.
I also started using loose watercolor sheets 9x12 Arches cold press and Fluid water color block 8x16 which I really like. The Arches is 100% cotton and since I don’t use it that often it takes a bit of getting used to compared to other papers. But the colors look great on it.
So here’s a few sketches from the past week or so.
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| A rough pencil sketch of Novak's Hungarian Restaurant on 2nd Ave. In Albany Oregon |
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| The finished ink sketch of Novak's. |
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| Novak's with watercolor added. |
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| On location. |
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