art spam: sketchbook #5 (2020)

Lots and lots of mixed feelings about this sketchbook. I loved the binding; it completely opens up flat. It's softcover which I don't like as well as hardcover, but then it was thick enough that that mostly didn't matter. I have this weird tactile aversion to the paper; it felt like a thick newsprint to me and it just annoyed me. I mostly only worked on one side of the page because there was a lot of bleed through on the pages (not just from obvious things like alcohol markers, but also other pens). Wet media wrinkled the pages somewhat, but not as bad as some paper does and some of the watercolor pages ended up being my favorite. The brand was Picadilly and it's pretty cheap so I can't say anything too bad about it. Final verdict: Worked well with pen, ink, and watercolor. Okay for pencil. Sucked the life out of markers. The open-flat binding was fantastic.

This sketchbook also spans all of 2020, which was a bit of a rollercoaster. I donated a lot of money I could NOT (edited to add the "not") afford to political causes and bought a lot of political stickers. (I hate feeling that voting with your dollars has more impact than voting with your actual VOTE, but I suspect it's true.) So I covered up a lot of the back-sides of pages with bleed-through by putting bumper stickers on them.



You can see more of the political stickers in this video, but fair warning that it will give you motion sickness because I'm terrible at trying to take video. If anyone does struggle through the video and want a better picture of something that I didn't include, just let me know.

(Some of these were posted on my old account and I spent a bit more time editing them back then. The ones I photographed recently, I just don't have the patience to edit the photos some some pictures might look a bit wonky.)
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digital edits of Venom fanart:

For a story about Venom sampling a variety of human food...

For a story about Venom eating a drug-dealer who if I remember correctly had drugs in his pocket...


miscellaneous babble about art

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I really need to weed these sketchbook re-caps down to a like a top-ten list or something. I always feel like I'm including unnecessary crap, but sometimes even the mediocre drawings have stories I want to tell (i.e. M*A*S*H signpost).