drifting

[egypturnash]

New small-sized sketchbook. It's one of those yuppified "Moleskine" books, purchased at the art store in Santa Cruz by Sammi. We were vaguely curious about them, and thought it'd be amusing to mock them. They're not bad, and nice to draw in with a pen texturally, but too small for one to actually work for me - I need to use something with a smaller point than a fountain pen, at that scale. It does, however, fit perfectly in my coat pocket.. So I'm filling it up with mechanical pencil doodles.

It's a nice little sketchbook, but it makes me feel like a trendoid, and it costs a bit much. But it is cute. It's also easier to scan than my usual books 'cause it lies flatter.

Late last night - something like 1AM - I went over to Ashy's place. We got a little drunk, I doodled some, we talked. We had vile donuts from 7-11.

Here's some doodles from this weekend and yesternight.


Moody = drawing my dormant Bitchy Mask, Sosael/Atazael. Far from the best drawing of her but there's something I just kinda like.


I was talking about artists fetishizing their tools because of this new sketchbook, and the other example is, of course, the Blackwing. Its distinctive shape is part of the appeal, and easier to draw than describe.



Weird things doodled while waiting for food at the Saturn Cafe.


Drawn at Ashy's. Greta vonLyte and her cubist ass. No, really. Her body and her legs are for an ass pointing the opposite direction to what I drew. I like it that way.



There was another nicely done doodle at Ashy's last night, but it's a rough for an upcoming birthday thing, so it can't be shown.

Comments

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

eep.. repeat link on the last two?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Oh, oops. Cut-and-paste accident. Fixed!

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

Cute! Mmmm.. Saturn Cafe.

Maybe I should start looking for jobs down in Santa Cruz instead. Been considering moving out of the area since jobs are pretty thin.

Moleskines...

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

One of the blogs I read about GTD (http://43folders.com) goes on and on at length about Moleskines and the 'Hipster PDA' (a stack of 3x5 cards) - So much so, I actually stopped in at the local Borders and spent a while trying to 'get it' - with little success. Maybe if I was less technical and more artistic.

Nice roughs, BTW. I'm especially fond of #2 - Not so excited by the Blackwing, but again... :)

Re: Moleskines...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's that sort of thing that pushed them into my awareness, too. I think the cult of the Moleskine is kind of an example of fetishizing the tools and process, in lieu of, well, actually getting something done.

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I know how THAT feels - I'm in one of those horrible 'I'd rather do anything than what I HAVE to do' ruts - and the idea of sifting through my 'To do's is just way too tempting. :(

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

I have too many other things to fetishize to fetishize my tools. Good sketches! I dig the buggy. ^_^

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a very good point. I have perfectly functional fetish circuits that're focused on much more interesting things than a particular sketchbook. Or a pencil.

Tools.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Ja, they're too small for me. Muse looks at it and says NO WAY!

[adequatemagic.livejournal.com]

I came to the Moleskines after being fed up with my Palm losing power at, well, horribly inconvenient moments. But then, I've been a paper PDA lout off and on for years.

The little notebooks are good for what I do - jot down ideas and random scrawls... you might want to look at the newer 'reporter' style which might be more sketchworthy. They also come in bigger 'notebook' sizes.

One thing that is very nice about them is that they're nigh-indestructable. But maybe that's fetishing.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm using the larger size, the roughly 5x4" ones. Some poking around on the net revealed that the ones sold as "sketchbooks" have thicker paper than the rest; a common complaint for the other kinds seems to be "my Really Cool Fetishy Pen bleeds through to the other side of the page all the time", and the solution is "get the sketchbooks".

Really, it's pretty nice, except for the fetish factor, and the lack of texture on the paper! If I found something similar, it might be my next pocket sketchbook. We'll see how the 'indestructable' part holds up; I've seen more than a few photos of Moleskines held together with lots of duct tape, in poking through Moleskine fetish sites.

5x4 is the Mini Sketchbook size for me. I've been using it in tandem with the 8x11 books for a few years - sometimes I just don't want to carry the big one, you know?

[adequatemagic.livejournal.com]

Indeed. For me, they're the *exact* right 'back pocket of the jeans' size. Because even in this modern age, I'm still a little iffy about carrying around a bag all the time.

[zeeth_kyrah]

S'why I carry a day-pack instead. Of course, that, combined with my relatively youthful visage, can cause people to assume I'm still in high school. Even though I'm nearly thirty.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I used to carry a backpack pretty much everywhere. But it just doesn't go with my look, since transition...