Like mentioned in the "how I paint" section, when taking photographs of my art nouveau studies from one of my sketchbooks, I realized that it would be great to have a sketchbook section on this website again and fill it up, bit by bit, with pages from my sketchbooks.
So I am launching the sketchbook section now and am filling it with some first pages. All pencil on paper. ^_^
Some stuff about my sketchbook(s):
I am not too specific with what kind of sketchbook I use. I have a bunch of different ones, and I choose which one to work with and with what materials (pencils, colored pencils, copics, inks, water colors, and sometimes acrylics) based on vibes. In some there are mainly life drawings of people and animals. Then I've got some that feature a lot of studies from anatomy books where I tried to learn all the bones and muscles. I had a phase when I wanted to do everything with black ink. And another were the option to erase stuff became too boring so I only worked with colored pencils that are eraser resistent.
Then I have a variation of smaller sketchbooks that I might carry around to sketch ideas in them. I used them, for example, when I was working in the film business. Prodrucers were having a meeting to discuss a new idea they wanted to pitch, and I sat with them and made pencil sketches. I also did all storyboard drawings I ever made in my sketchbooks.
When we worked on shows that had historical themes, I would use my sketchbooks to make drawings of clothes from that time (researched in history books about clothes from different eras) and take notes on what was important about them. I could then use what I learned to design clothes for the show in question, which would later needed to be greenlit by the producers.
The sketchbooks I will feature here will not come in a particular "order". I have too many and I usually just take one from my shelf, flip through the pages, and decide based on vibes what I feel like sharing today. Since it all transports the same message, being "you can get good at drawing if you practice daily", I think it fits the theme. If people, for example on my social media, express the wish to see old drawings of mine, I can of course do a deep dive later and look for some very old work.
Once I share that work, I will let you know around which year it is approximately dated, so you get a better idea of how I have improved over the years.
We are starting with a nice sketchbook that mostly consists of anatomy studies of people and animals.
I studied people from life drawing sessions, photographs and anatomy books.
However, studying the real person in a life drawing session is where it all comes together in my opinion. Since you see the muscles etc move when the models move, which gives you a lot of vital information. I will later on also share a lot more drawings that I did in life drawing sessions.
The animal studies were drawn at the zoo, the museum, or studied from photographs. ^_^
PS: I had forgotten about my other blogpost and now I have people there who didn't get an answer to their comments for about 3 years. I find that quite embarassing to not reply to people for that long because I forgot about this blog. So I am deactivating the comments here lol. XD