Sketchbook 4 Inventory
Hello LiveJournal!
I know I hardly use you anymore but I thought you'd be the best place for this, the SKETCHBOOK 4 INVENTORY.
Readers may remember I did this for Sketchbook 3 and it was pretty fun. I have several ongoing projects and having to switch to a new book (5) was a little disorienting. Having them here in a list should be helpful!
The book itself is a 7x10" Canson Field Drawing Book with 90lb cream drawing paper. It says 120 pages on the label but I have been drawing on only one side since otherwise the pencil smudges together, so it's 60 pages for me.
Sketchbook 4 is dated January 2010 to December 2012, which means it took twice as long to fill as Sketchbook 3 (which was part of my goal) but I don't have much finished art to show for it (which was the other part of the goal).
Oh well!
As before this post involves AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION!
If there is anything in the Inventory that you would like to see and know more about then leave a comment on this post (make sure to include the page number) and I shall scan it, upload it to my devArt scraps*, and link to it in a reply to your comment.
For those without an LJ login, there is OpenID and I can check anonymous posting. That said, I don't mind if you ping me with a request on another platform (Tumblr/DevArt/Twitter/Facebook). I'll reply to you there. :)
*I know some people can't stand devArt or have trouble accessing it. If you're one of these people, you may request to have it uploaded elsewhere. I'm cool with uploading to my own hosting or FA.
-SKETCHBOOK 4-
01] Notes on how to re-organize my art folders/files with a little sketch of Cata sorting pages.
02] Notes and thumbnails for a speech Tulare gave back when he was a young soldier. [Bone & Steel]
03] A humanoid with wings for arms, falling backward.
04] Tiny thumbnails for a graphic short featuring Lee. ...this page is mostly blank. [SFR/Good Deeds]
05] [Uploaded for arrin] Soquan with Lorenzel on his shoulders. It's pretty smudgy now but I got a scan earlier ...and apparently didn't upload it?? [CrossedPaths] (Edit to previous: the scan from earlier was from much earlier in the sketch, and it was smudgy too!)
06] [Uploaded for arrin] Couple of Scorpions: Almazen and Kizandria (from before she had a name!) [CrossedPaths]
07] Human practice, trying to get Guadalupe's face right. [Uncertain]
08] Doodles! BlackDragon, angry Cata face and tired Cata face, some bird and lizard things.
09] Figtree! I remember drawing this one while visiting with traxer and dsch in San Francisco!
10] Tule elk and black-tail deer antlers, drawn from life and dated 3 Sept 2010, Camp Roberts.
11] Elk, drawn from an advertisement on the back of the 2010 CDFG Mammal regulations, also Camp Roberts.
12] Very faint sketchy idea of berzerkers and bears.
13] Dungeon monster, winged, beaked, eyeless, generally weird.
14] Doodles! Sketch of a hotel followed by a Cata head thinking "Buildings are BORING", a stylized tree with "Freedom in the land AND HOPE FOR ALL" tucked in the roots, a shrew, a fysgon, a tiny attempt at the creature from page 13, and the happiest little carnivorous plant there ever was!
15] Tulare and Ember the cat signing to each other. I got frustrated with Tulare's legs on this one and it's pretty sketchy.
16] That Horrible-Feet-On-Backwards Thing. Also, a bad attempt at a puffin from memory.
17] Doodles! Spiderweb, cartoony-finch head, Tulare fencing, a scribbled out sitting cat-person, and a start at human head and shoulders, terribly out of proportion now that I look at it again.
18] Doodles! Human form Yazeth in running gear with a bottle of water, thumbnail of Lee.
19] To-do list and Doodles, including some dragon heads, one of those acorn woodpecker/wolf gryphons I like to draw, and a taped in scrap of paper with a thumbnail of Jozra.
20] [Uploaded for arrin]Character design for kangaroo rats in the CP universe and some other CP notes. [CrossedPaths]
21] Continuation of above: Denzelo's head and then a poor attempt at putting that weird K-rat body in motion. [CrossedPaths]
22] [Uploaded for arrin]Words! Character notes for Zalia Bonebreaker with a pen drawing on totally different paper taped to the opposite page. [CrossedPaths]
23] [Uploaded for arrin]More CP words! Sketch of Zellekano and further notes. This one is unique because I went back to it several times to update it, including just a few days ago. [CrossedPaths]
24] [Uploaded for arrin][For Completion] Ellen sitting on a couch looking pensive. I've been working on this one off and on and keep forgetting where it is. I think it's time to move it out of the sketchbook. [SFR]
25] [For Completion] Sketch of dsch's personification of the Golden Gate Bridge holding back Fog. Drawn on a plane from San Jose to Seattle on 21 Sept 2011!
26] Collaborative timeline thoughts with arrin with a couple tiny foxes and a hare. [CrossedPaths]
27] Extremely sketchy thoughts on layout/maps, etc (3 pages! facing and back, but VERY scribbly) [CrossedPaths]
28] Doodles! Gnarled tree, a fysgon, and a thumbnail for what I think I want to do with that BlackDragon sketch that I guess I didn't actually upload anywhere. :/
29] Symmetrical design with pointy things and swirly things.
30] Sketchy Spiral Knights! Featuring my character in full and my bro's in part, from back when we first started playing.
31] [Uploaded for arrin] Color tests for some flowers I drew. Plus, Jozra with crossed blades.
32] Maorin! The four-armed cat-beast from Shadowcaster! I have an ambitious project planned here.
33] To-do lists with a cheetahYazeth head.
34] My dumb idea for the Red Miles from Homestuck becoming the Biomass from Romantically Apocalyptic.
35] A guest comic idea for Loose Ferrets that I should really finish up and send to traxer!
36] Nekkra Octavia, my cousin Devin's ranger character.
37] Shinra Exōdia, Devin's warrior character.
38] G'tone Réhel, my cousin Garret's rogue character.
39] Incomplete sketch (just the bones) of my roguey character Kizandria for the D&D game my cousins were/are running. (I later stole the name from myself for CP. This is not the first time this has happened is it, Jozra?)
40] My notes for the Kanaya skirt I made. (And also for the summer's roadtrip, apparently.)
41] More Kanaya skirt notes.
42] BlackDragon, torching a stick-figure.
43] [Uploaded for arrin] Concept sketches for Earl's tattoo design. Also: a Kanaya head.
44] More sketches for Earl's tattoo design. And a to-do list.
45] MORE Kanaya skirt notes. This project pretty much dominated from May-July.
46] To-do lists. A bad Kanaya head, a tiny Figtree, and a rezzelon where I forgot how to draw the tail.
47] Doodles! Stylized fox, Lee head, Iridiuma (?! my long abandoned lupe from NeoPets), and some thoughts on a steampunk or just Victorian style BIG BAD WOLF costume. (Need $200+ for mask from Merimask. o,O)
48] Thoughts and thumbnails of Earth/Wood/Water/Air/Fire-folk. This was one of those utterly unconnected world-building ideas that popped into my head that I had to capture before it was forgotten. No idea if or when I'll use it.
49] Guadalupe in mid-transformation. Prompted by someone else trying to capture mid-shift werewolves. [Uncertain]
50] A stylistic Cata-head with... moon and fire? It's small and yet I can't seem to put anything else on this page, so I think it's done.
51] Swell-shark mermaid idea. Inspired by seeing live egg-cases, back-lit so you can see the tiny shark inside and knowing that these are also called mermaid purses.
52] The Trine! I have an idea for a more ambitious piece of fan-art, but I had to learn how to draw the Trine first.
53] Sketch-roulette sketches! G'tone, drawn to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"; my laptop, drawn to "Dark Lady" by the Scorpions; a wolf drawn from dA stock, drawn to "Holy Diver" by Dio; Erutan, drawn to Rhapsody's "When Demons Awake".
54] [Uploaded for Convexdefense!] Practice drawing trumpeter swans, for a project for my bro. [D's Shield]
55] Notes on the Shadowcaster idea! I found the book with the game materials and copied down the pertinent information (including correct spelling) and drew teensy thumbnails. Guys, if I do this it will be 7 full-color images of the different forms of one character from an ancient game. Ambitious indeed!
56] Sketches for Devin's dark eldar (I think? Need to double-check references, etc.)
57] Sketch for Garret's pick-pocket.
58] More sketches for Devin's, trying to get the shape of the ...rocket...sled...thing right.
59] PONIES. I wanted to draw some ponies in the card I sent to mls_classics but I thought I should practice first since I've never drawn MLP style before!
60] [Uploaded for arrin] Practice sketches of Terezi for some art I included with Kelsey's horns. [Completed version here!]
I know I hardly use you anymore but I thought you'd be the best place for this, the SKETCHBOOK 4 INVENTORY.
Readers may remember I did this for Sketchbook 3 and it was pretty fun. I have several ongoing projects and having to switch to a new book (5) was a little disorienting. Having them here in a list should be helpful!
The book itself is a 7x10" Canson Field Drawing Book with 90lb cream drawing paper. It says 120 pages on the label but I have been drawing on only one side since otherwise the pencil smudges together, so it's 60 pages for me.
Sketchbook 4 is dated January 2010 to December 2012, which means it took twice as long to fill as Sketchbook 3 (which was part of my goal) but I don't have much finished art to show for it (which was the other part of the goal).
Oh well!
As before this post involves AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION!
If there is anything in the Inventory that you would like to see and know more about then leave a comment on this post (make sure to include the page number) and I shall scan it, upload it to my devArt scraps*, and link to it in a reply to your comment.
For those without an LJ login, there is OpenID and I can check anonymous posting. That said, I don't mind if you ping me with a request on another platform (Tumblr/DevArt/Twitter/Facebook). I'll reply to you there. :)
*I know some people can't stand devArt or have trouble accessing it. If you're one of these people, you may request to have it uploaded elsewhere. I'm cool with uploading to my own hosting or FA.
-SKETCHBOOK 4-
01] Notes on how to re-organize my art folders/files with a little sketch of Cata sorting pages.
02] Notes and thumbnails for a speech Tulare gave back when he was a young soldier. [Bone & Steel]
03] A humanoid with wings for arms, falling backward.
04] Tiny thumbnails for a graphic short featuring Lee. ...this page is mostly blank. [SFR/Good Deeds]
05] [Uploaded for arrin] Soquan with Lorenzel on his shoulders. It's pretty smudgy now but I got a scan earlier ...and apparently didn't upload it?? [CrossedPaths] (Edit to previous: the scan from earlier was from much earlier in the sketch, and it was smudgy too!)
06] [Uploaded for arrin] Couple of Scorpions: Almazen and Kizandria (from before she had a name!) [CrossedPaths]
07] Human practice, trying to get Guadalupe's face right. [Uncertain]
08] Doodles! BlackDragon, angry Cata face and tired Cata face, some bird and lizard things.
09] Figtree! I remember drawing this one while visiting with traxer and dsch in San Francisco!
10] Tule elk and black-tail deer antlers, drawn from life and dated 3 Sept 2010, Camp Roberts.
11] Elk, drawn from an advertisement on the back of the 2010 CDFG Mammal regulations, also Camp Roberts.
12] Very faint sketchy idea of berzerkers and bears.
13] Dungeon monster, winged, beaked, eyeless, generally weird.
14] Doodles! Sketch of a hotel followed by a Cata head thinking "Buildings are BORING", a stylized tree with "Freedom in the land AND HOPE FOR ALL" tucked in the roots, a shrew, a fysgon, a tiny attempt at the creature from page 13, and the happiest little carnivorous plant there ever was!
15] Tulare and Ember the cat signing to each other. I got frustrated with Tulare's legs on this one and it's pretty sketchy.
16] That Horrible-Feet-On-Backwards Thing. Also, a bad attempt at a puffin from memory.
17] Doodles! Spiderweb, cartoony-finch head, Tulare fencing, a scribbled out sitting cat-person, and a start at human head and shoulders, terribly out of proportion now that I look at it again.
18] Doodles! Human form Yazeth in running gear with a bottle of water, thumbnail of Lee.
19] To-do list and Doodles, including some dragon heads, one of those acorn woodpecker/wolf gryphons I like to draw, and a taped in scrap of paper with a thumbnail of Jozra.
20] [Uploaded for arrin]Character design for kangaroo rats in the CP universe and some other CP notes. [CrossedPaths]
21] Continuation of above: Denzelo's head and then a poor attempt at putting that weird K-rat body in motion. [CrossedPaths]
22] [Uploaded for arrin]Words! Character notes for Zalia Bonebreaker with a pen drawing on totally different paper taped to the opposite page. [CrossedPaths]
23] [Uploaded for arrin]More CP words! Sketch of Zellekano and further notes. This one is unique because I went back to it several times to update it, including just a few days ago. [CrossedPaths]
24] [Uploaded for arrin][For Completion] Ellen sitting on a couch looking pensive. I've been working on this one off and on and keep forgetting where it is. I think it's time to move it out of the sketchbook. [SFR]
25] [For Completion] Sketch of dsch's personification of the Golden Gate Bridge holding back Fog. Drawn on a plane from San Jose to Seattle on 21 Sept 2011!
26] Collaborative timeline thoughts with arrin with a couple tiny foxes and a hare. [CrossedPaths]
27] Extremely sketchy thoughts on layout/maps, etc (3 pages! facing and back, but VERY scribbly) [CrossedPaths]
28] Doodles! Gnarled tree, a fysgon, and a thumbnail for what I think I want to do with that BlackDragon sketch that I guess I didn't actually upload anywhere. :/
29] Symmetrical design with pointy things and swirly things.
30] Sketchy Spiral Knights! Featuring my character in full and my bro's in part, from back when we first started playing.
31] [Uploaded for arrin] Color tests for some flowers I drew. Plus, Jozra with crossed blades.
32] Maorin! The four-armed cat-beast from Shadowcaster! I have an ambitious project planned here.
33] To-do lists with a cheetahYazeth head.
34] My dumb idea for the Red Miles from Homestuck becoming the Biomass from Romantically Apocalyptic.
35] A guest comic idea for Loose Ferrets that I should really finish up and send to traxer!
36] Nekkra Octavia, my cousin Devin's ranger character.
37] Shinra Exōdia, Devin's warrior character.
38] G'tone Réhel, my cousin Garret's rogue character.
39] Incomplete sketch (just the bones) of my roguey character Kizandria for the D&D game my cousins were/are running. (I later stole the name from myself for CP. This is not the first time this has happened is it, Jozra?)
40] My notes for the Kanaya skirt I made. (And also for the summer's roadtrip, apparently.)
41] More Kanaya skirt notes.
42] BlackDragon, torching a stick-figure.
43] [Uploaded for arrin] Concept sketches for Earl's tattoo design. Also: a Kanaya head.
44] More sketches for Earl's tattoo design. And a to-do list.
45] MORE Kanaya skirt notes. This project pretty much dominated from May-July.
46] To-do lists. A bad Kanaya head, a tiny Figtree, and a rezzelon where I forgot how to draw the tail.
47] Doodles! Stylized fox, Lee head, Iridiuma (?! my long abandoned lupe from NeoPets), and some thoughts on a steampunk or just Victorian style BIG BAD WOLF costume. (Need $200+ for mask from Merimask. o,O)
48] Thoughts and thumbnails of Earth/Wood/Water/Air/Fire-folk. This was one of those utterly unconnected world-building ideas that popped into my head that I had to capture before it was forgotten. No idea if or when I'll use it.
49] Guadalupe in mid-transformation. Prompted by someone else trying to capture mid-shift werewolves. [Uncertain]
50] A stylistic Cata-head with... moon and fire? It's small and yet I can't seem to put anything else on this page, so I think it's done.
51] Swell-shark mermaid idea. Inspired by seeing live egg-cases, back-lit so you can see the tiny shark inside and knowing that these are also called mermaid purses.
52] The Trine! I have an idea for a more ambitious piece of fan-art, but I had to learn how to draw the Trine first.
53] Sketch-roulette sketches! G'tone, drawn to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"; my laptop, drawn to "Dark Lady" by the Scorpions; a wolf drawn from dA stock, drawn to "Holy Diver" by Dio; Erutan, drawn to Rhapsody's "When Demons Awake".
54] [Uploaded for Convexdefense!] Practice drawing trumpeter swans, for a project for my bro. [D's Shield]
55] Notes on the Shadowcaster idea! I found the book with the game materials and copied down the pertinent information (including correct spelling) and drew teensy thumbnails. Guys, if I do this it will be 7 full-color images of the different forms of one character from an ancient game. Ambitious indeed!
56] Sketches for Devin's dark eldar (I think? Need to double-check references, etc.)
57] Sketch for Garret's pick-pocket.
58] More sketches for Devin's, trying to get the shape of the ...rocket...sled...thing right.
59] PONIES. I wanted to draw some ponies in the card I sent to mls_classics but I thought I should practice first since I've never drawn MLP style before!
60] [Uploaded for arrin] Practice sketches of Terezi for some art I included with Kelsey's horns. [Completed version here!]