Turn Your Sketchbook Doodles Into a Digital Repeating Pattern
Turn your sketchbook doodling into digital patterns!
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Sketch Inspiration: Working with White Pens
Looking for a technique to liven up your art journal? Check out these inspiring shots from Alisa Burke’s post on working with white pens!
Continue ReadingHow-To: Keep a Pen with Your Sketchbook
Have you ever pulled out your sketchbook, only to spend several frustrating minutes digging around your pockets and bag for a pen?
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Meagan’s Panama sketchbook
Meagan was recently on an extended stay in Panama. Before leaving she made a small sketchbook which she then filled with a visual travelogue. On returning, she scanned the pages of the sketchbook and posted them for all to see. The book tells a great story of rural life far off the grid and the people she lived with. Some of the pages are cut to the contour of the images, which then show layering of the three dimensional spaces in the picture.
Continue ReadingYelena Bryksenkova: Sketchbook
St. Petersburg-born, Midwest-raised Yelena Bryksenkova creates storybook-style illustrations full of a certain folklore nostalgia. Her sketchbooks reveal a lush inner landscape brimming with musings, portraits, meals, notable fashion, historic figures, and the view out the window. They remind me of Maira Kalman‘s illustrations, both in aesthetic and theme, as they remodel everyday subjects into curious […]
Continue ReadingRobot Sketchbook Cover, by Toxic_Panda_Crayon, age 11
My amazing friend Sasha is only 11 years old, but she already has quite the body of artwork and graphic designs under her belt. I just love this sketchbook cover collage that she made of a robot, using paper that she cut out of Vogue magazine. With some glue, scissors, and some recycled media, Sasha […]
Continue ReadingLost sketchbook from 1913 found in old book
How fun to find a treasure like this at a flea market. What looks like an old book on the outside is not a book at all but a misprint which is filled with blank pages. Yet almost forty of the pages inside are filled with drawings dating back to Chicago in 1913. I love […]
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