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9 months ago
More art uploads are coming, this time from my own hand!
My time tonight December twenty-fourth was spent productively scanning in my own personal sketchbook which I haven't done since I started drawing in it, and the first art piece in it is from two years ago.
Not everything is in a "finished" state to where I can say its complete, so some of them will include a note that there stands a good chance that I could return to old arts and bring it up to a completed state later; but then again there's a fair bit of art pieces in here that I honestly can say I'm damned proud of for achieving and I cannot wait to share, and that's saying something considering what an abysmal piece of shit this sketchbook is.
What can I say, the sketchbook from a 'Five Below' is...well, what you get for five dollars in a sketchbook. Seemed like a good deal at the time so I went ahead and grabbed it, and I've really regretted this decision ever since but I'm also too stubborn to just throw it away for recycling and have come to see it as a challenge for what I can do with a lackluster media.
How best to describe this sketchbook?
The pages feel...felty? Like they're fuzzy instead of crisp and flat. You put your pencil onto the paper and start making your strokes and the pencil has to cut into the top fuzz layer to move around; if you decide you want to erase, the paper just refuses to release the graphite. My kneaded rubber eraser removes some of the mark, but not ALL of the mark if its excessively heavy. And from experience I know the use of kneaded rubber is very limited for you can only apply it so much before the ability to erase anything at all is gone.
So this sketchbook has really demanded a careful approach to make use of it.
Gentle faint pencil strokes with barely any pressure applied at all to allow for easy erasure over the course of the project, and gently having to sneak up on it waiting until the last minute to permanently make your lines indelible when you're absolutely happy with what you've done.
Its made me required to have a really solid idea of what it is I even want to make appear on the page, and by that extent exercising patience in the creation of an art tolerating and working with mistakes as they happen.
But ultimately the takeaway is, get your sketchbook and drawing supplies form somewhere other than a 'Five Below' store. Its not worth the five dollars you'll spend on it. Get an actual 'good' sketchbook from some art store.
Anyways; thirty-five pages, so two sessions of seventeen images at a time should do it.
--Mozdoc
My time tonight December twenty-fourth was spent productively scanning in my own personal sketchbook which I haven't done since I started drawing in it, and the first art piece in it is from two years ago.
Not everything is in a "finished" state to where I can say its complete, so some of them will include a note that there stands a good chance that I could return to old arts and bring it up to a completed state later; but then again there's a fair bit of art pieces in here that I honestly can say I'm damned proud of for achieving and I cannot wait to share, and that's saying something considering what an abysmal piece of shit this sketchbook is.
What can I say, the sketchbook from a 'Five Below' is...well, what you get for five dollars in a sketchbook. Seemed like a good deal at the time so I went ahead and grabbed it, and I've really regretted this decision ever since but I'm also too stubborn to just throw it away for recycling and have come to see it as a challenge for what I can do with a lackluster media.
How best to describe this sketchbook?
The pages feel...felty? Like they're fuzzy instead of crisp and flat. You put your pencil onto the paper and start making your strokes and the pencil has to cut into the top fuzz layer to move around; if you decide you want to erase, the paper just refuses to release the graphite. My kneaded rubber eraser removes some of the mark, but not ALL of the mark if its excessively heavy. And from experience I know the use of kneaded rubber is very limited for you can only apply it so much before the ability to erase anything at all is gone.
So this sketchbook has really demanded a careful approach to make use of it.
Gentle faint pencil strokes with barely any pressure applied at all to allow for easy erasure over the course of the project, and gently having to sneak up on it waiting until the last minute to permanently make your lines indelible when you're absolutely happy with what you've done.
Its made me required to have a really solid idea of what it is I even want to make appear on the page, and by that extent exercising patience in the creation of an art tolerating and working with mistakes as they happen.
But ultimately the takeaway is, get your sketchbook and drawing supplies form somewhere other than a 'Five Below' store. Its not worth the five dollars you'll spend on it. Get an actual 'good' sketchbook from some art store.
Anyways; thirty-five pages, so two sessions of seventeen images at a time should do it.
--Mozdoc
