KA-BLAMMO!!

Here's how my pages are looking for the sketchbook battle so far. Some random sketching, a Basil Gogos master copy, a landscape of a photo I took, a bunch of equipment and this dude Arthur Lake who was around in the Zephyr days of Dogtown. I had to tape in a piece of paper to finish the deck on this one. I touched up the page with Bruce a little bit so I took another shot. I still have space to fill on the one with the guy and the lamp post. I wanted it to be observations only...but anyway...the requirement is 50 and I've almost got a good five going after the first week. FULL STEAM AHEAD!

It's Alive!

Here is some random shit. Observations and studies. I got some canvas from Patty and I tried to paint a Photoshopped picture of myself. It was hard, I made a lot of revisions and I'm still not very happy with it. But my dog barked at it, so it must have something.

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Breaking the Rules...

There's a picture of my artistic arsenal on the floor. I decided to just tape and paint on one page, and that sucked. Then I started using some skateboard, car, and magazine references with microns and ink. I decided to take a cue from James Jean and just cross and overlap lines. I felt like I was breaking my own rules and there were times when I found myself trying to stop at the "edge" of another drawing. I liked the result and it seems I can do more with markers then I had first though. I also used a bit of chalk pastels on the cheetah and surfboard, then I just used all types of markers and colored pencils. I'm hoping to do more stuff like this with the rest of the sketchbook, experimenting with different mediums and such because I am having more fun and I feel like this is the best book I've done so far.