Sep. 27th, 2022

Done!

Sep. 27th, 2022 01:58 am
eye_of_toad: ink drawing of Dream from Sandman (Sandman)
The dreaded Sketchbook #11 is complete.

I'll upload pictures tomorrow, but it's now 2AM here and I really need to go to bed, but I needed to brag that it's done.

Like every sketchbook, it's about 75% garbage and 20% "that was a cool idea that I should try again because I didn't quite get it" and 5% "I love this beyond words".

I have made a new icon out of one of the better pages. I'll probably make icons out of a few more tomorrow.
eye_of_toad: ink drawing of Dream from Sandman (Sandman)
heads-up for anyone reading this Tuesday afternoon: I'm going to post this and then keep editing it until I've got all the photos uploaded. (I don't want to risk putting in all the effort of linking all the photos only for the computer to glitch out or something, so this will be a save-as-i-go process.) Hence you may have stumbled across an incomplete post. Done!

So here it is. Pens for scale.
2022 April-September 2022 April-September

Only after I was all finished, did it dawn on me that "Sketchbook #11" did not have a single drawing of Eleven in it, so I drew this and taped it onto the cover with packing tape. (People who worry about archival-quality materials are probably cringing right now, but there is nothing in this sketchbook that needs to be saved for posterity. And most of the pages are done with marker which isn't archival either.)

This is a Crescent Rendr sketchbook and I HATED it. I like the paper but the binding was super annoying, made moreso by the false advertising that it was a "lay flat" sketchbook. I only bought a sketchbook this small because of the "lay flat" promise, thinking I would be able to draw across the fold and effectively double the page size. (I can do this with my Talens Art Creation sketchbooks.) So basically every day working with this was a frustration.

Which conversely meant that I felt free to just scribble whatever crap I wanted without that nagging anxiety about "wasting" pages in a good sketchbook. (Sometimes liking a sketchbook too much is also a problem.)

I wouldn't normally post some of these, but the September prompt for [community profile] drawesome was to finish a work-in-progress and, in the name of completion, I took photos of every page.

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