Left side drawn from a photo at www.shorpy.com, one of my favorite sites out there.

I’ve been carrying around a small Moleskine sketchbook for about a month now. It’s so much more accessible than whipping out my big sketchbook (which of course I still keep but use only for notes and sketches for assignments or freelance work). When I pull out the small book, I have no worries whatsoever about making anything look polished, it’s just more about the feel of putting something down on paper. I think it’s not only upped my speed but also my confidence in pure mark-making, as everything you see here went straight to ink, no pencils. Here are a few of my favorite pages from the last month.

This post is also a good window into the three materials I almost never leave the house without lately, my Pentel Pocket Brush, a water brush filled with a light ink wash instead of just water, and usually about four colors of Sharpie paint markers.

Ghost bomb ended up becoming an etching, which I’ll post when I get a final edition scanned. The top right drawing garnered a friendly, but mis-guided “Oh, I like that!” from a waitress in the restaurant I was sitting, after which I almost instantaneously snapped the book shut, slightly embarrassed. Also, some fan art for my buddy, Brybox.

Self-explanatory.

Like ghost bomb before it, the left side here also got turned into an etching entitled “My Other Automobile is an Ornithopter.” Right side is Phil Bunyan, were he a small deer. (And yes, the page was very smudgy, although it doesn’t show in the scan)

Mummy drawn during class and a guy I drew from memory after glancing up and seeing him on CNN yesterday.

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