art spam: sketchbook #3 (2019)

So there was this period in 2019 when I got obsessed with Rubik's Cubes. I could never do these when they were the trendy toy and in 2019, I got stubborn and decided I was going to look up the cheat instructions and memorize it. (Never would have figured this out on my own in a million years.)


I still have the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube sitting on the coffee table and I can still solve it as long as I don't get distracted halfway through (which, y'know, happens fairly often).

I don't own the 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube anymore. It wasn't a smooth design and didn't turn easily and the labels were starting to peel up which made it scratchy in your hands. It would literally hurt my hands to play with for too long. (My boss gave it to me when he replaced it with a better one and I finally tossed it during the last move.) Someday I want to get another one.

These two are sort of self-portraits, but clearly not literally so. My sketchbooks always feel like they flow better when I stop viewing it as art and just view it as art therapy.


And apparently Good Omens was on my mind at the time as well.
I just decoded the message. It says: "I fucked up everything on this page. Everything." I was apparently having a bad day.

These are all Pilot pens, even the purple one, though I was disappointed that the purple and pink inks didn't work out as well as the black ink.