of the 'Sketchbooks' Category

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!California-based artist Marissa Textor has some exceptional pencil drawings of natural objects. They are of such sharp detail that they could pass as monochrome photographs. I’m happy with this find.

ⓒ Marissa Textor, 2009
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Look no further than the sketchbooks of Matt Mims if you are looking for edgy drawings created through a mixture of strong and softer lines. Matt’s work demonstrates an accomplished, jarring style resulting from what is clearly a lot of practice.

Matt uses ‘mechanical pencils, regular old graphite pencils, Micron ink pens and Sharpie pens. I [...]

With such a long radio-silence with the sketchbook sneak features, I’m happy to re-ignite the series with a bang.
Today we’re peering into the sketchbook of Oregon-based illustrator, animator and director Ward Jenkins. Ward has a unique style, and one that is easily recognizable, with its strong lines and frequent use of fun, stylized characters.
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Nicole sent me an email the other day telling me about how I’d left a comment on her drawing-a-day site site ‘Finkle Boudit’ many weeks ago. I’m glad she reminded me of her work, because I was pleasantly surprised to see it again. I’d noticed her drawing-a-day regime was falling back slightly, and thought it’d [...]

Anna Rusakova is a Ukrainian artist with a particular fondness for building up intricate and busy moleskine books.
These include her excellent drawn work, with what I see incorporating mainly Eastern European, American and Japanese influences, combined with bits and pieces that compliment each other to create a very pleasing aesthetic.
I’m a big fan of building [...]

Scotland-based Wil Freeborn has an excellent accomplished collection of sketches.
If these don’t inspire you to get outside with those sketchbooks and pencils, I don’t know what will.

ⓒ Wil Freeborn, 2009
Check out and buy Wil’s ‘See You Around‘ book, documenting 2 years of traveling.
Thank you Wil!
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I was pleasantly surprised when I came across Hollis Brown Thornton’s striking and sentimental marker pen illustrations of old videos and cassettes on Poolga a few weeks ago. I love the colours and great attention to all the details in this work, including the hand-written labels on the cassettes. Hollis can also claim an eye-opening [...]