The Elements of Sketches 2023 are filed “MM/DD/YYYY,” for my own sake, and hopefully should give you the insight of procession, however you may see it.
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After graduating with an English Degree, the strong feelings and visual flashes never withered. You’d think one could get away simply explaining their story, but I was missing something: Color. Call me Monkey-Boy, but I never could fully cast a doubt toward the world I saw every day. (Perception terrifies me, like a bear: I prefer to watch with a pair of binoculars, if you roast my harsh-mallow.) I especially couldn’t stop doodling on my notes and textbooks. Three years later, I walked out with an Illustration degree, and now I givetoyouSketchBook2023pleaselikeandsubscribe.
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Experience the raw, frustrating course of my process as a sketch artist. Here are the common-most themes that th-WACK the Eagerness, like a jockey on horseback:
People: The rigidity of which I yearn to challenge. Human anatomy is a continuously tumultuous prospect, a push-pull game between realist and surrealist action, many of which is hesitant, unsure, or left completely abandoned in its initial strokes (especially when compared to their irrelevant counterparts). Shabari stands out to me as a useful tool, in this respect, to define shapes and fields of complicated foreshortening. Friends and Celebrities make appearances. In a year of much blending, my style may render along a more an iconic approach, whose eyes and mouths fulfill the driving force to expand the colorful nature in which it vilifies. Cartoons? Maybe. Anime? Could be. JayBob Doodles? Okay.
Places: Landscapes and Plein Airs are so much fun! I didn’t think I’d adore the outlook as much as I have, recently, despite my frustrated humility to challenge the mathematical portion of my brain, when the subject is fully realized. However, the image becomes more convincing and less detractive from the rest of my self-acquitted perceptions, the longer I work at it with a still heart.
Things: Random funny faces, props, and practicing body parts are lacking in the broader scheme of this Sketchbook. I suppose this entire album was more for the practice of understanding such things, but I can eagerly jolt the notion that you’ll be seeing more THINGS, down the line.
Memories: Notice some of these sketches wield color, or possess some impersonal formula to their unkempt predecessors, such as stippling, detailed shading, charcoal, etc. Diary Entries and InkTober are becoming more prominent, visually, although I’m obliged to proceed the former with the attitude of a historian and hope they dedicate my own expression. 2024 will be more adventurous.
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typical gear
my sister
hands and fingers
hands and fingers
hands and fingers
drinks
farmer babe
poses
combat pose
that one place
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Funky Logo
Funky Logo
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Funky Logo
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Eight Ball Sketches
