One Sketchbook Down Many More To Go

Unfortunately I haven't sketched as much as I would have liked the last couple of years. I really haven't mastered the art of the quick sketch. Quick for me could mean an hour. I feel like that is a lot of time I don't have during the school year. So I've been trying to draw as often as possible this summer. I made a goal to draw everyday in June but that lasted about 7 days. Still , I don't want to beat myself up about it. I'm drawing, that's what counts. I finished the 8 x 8 sketchbook that I made last summer. (Eek. I hate that it took almost a year to finish it)

This is the second sketchbook I've made and I really didn't know what I was doing. Still, it held together and it was fun. So much so that I made another one this weekend. Same size, but made up of all the scraps of printmaking paper that I had leftover from the two printmaking classes I've taken, mostly Rives BFK and Arches Coverstock. It is literally a scrap journal. Made up of all different sizes and shapes. I don't know how well the paper will hold up to sketching or painting but that's part of the fun for me. 

Anyway, here are the last few layouts in this book. (Actually these are some of the last few. I had a few stinker sketches in this book. It has been heavily edited.)

I have many more finished pages in the moleskine, but I'll save those for another day, and a couple of really cool sketchbook projects that I hope to share later as well. Have a great Monday.