So, not for the first time, I'm bogged down with commissions and other bits of work that I can't post - so here are some scratchy rough portraits from the sketchbook.
I used to constantly draw in sketchbooks when I was coming up, but tapered off a few years back when I started getting into this whole drawing stuff business in a more serious ill-advised way - working on larger things that took a bit more time. And then I was really jazzed when I got my green Ciak sketchbook and started up again.
I had this idea that it didn't matter how things in the sketchbook looked and I could just play around and have fun. That ended pretty quickly when I posted a quick portrait of Alan Moore on Instagram and got a ton of likes. Since I am a whore for the likes the sketchbook immediately became a quick and easy content generator.
What I'm going to need to do is get a second sketchbook on the go where it doesn't matter what I draw because it's not for posting and I can try out new things. Of course, I will probably post something from there if I particularly like it, and if that should happen to get some love online then it will turn into a second layer of content generation. And I will inevitably move deeper and deeper into the strata of sketchbooks like an infinitely recurring set of parenthesis.
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