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Tag Archives: cartoons
The Little Sketchbooks
Last week I was going to gather my collection of little sketchbooks that I have been keeping since 2017. I have always kept sketchbooks, but my fascination for the small ones started when my wife snagged me the original Sketchbook … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, doodle, Illustration, inexpensive, Joe Williams, sketchbook, Sketchbook from Heaven, USA
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Monsters Not Playing Nicely
In this week’s edition of IT CAME FROM THE SKETCHBOOK I’m featuring some of my couch doodles of monsters doing what they do when they get together which is not getting along. Monsters usually don’t play nicely with one another … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged cartoons, cheap sketchbook, comics, doodle, Frankenstein, horror, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, werewolf
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Hacking Away at a Cheap Sketchbook
I continue to throw graphite at the unwilling little sketchbook of which I have written about lately. I’ve had no evidence of anything close to supernatural brilliance bubbling up from the pad’s cheap little pages, but I continue to make … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monsters, Sketch, sketchbook, USA
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Sketchbook • Gruesome Graphite Grotesques
I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling graphite grotesques into the night. Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comics, doodle, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook
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What I Miss About Comics — Boss Battles
This panel reminds me of when extreme boredom would drive a few grade schoolers to play war on a sheet of loose-leaf paper. Essentially two or more boys would start carefully drawing out soldiers, jeeps and tanks on that sheet … Continue reading
Get to the Point!
A search through some old art bins in the studio set me tumbling down a rabbit hole of wooden pencils, pencil sharpeners and crafting the perfect point.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Stuff Joe Likes, Technique
Tagged analog, antique, Cartoon, cartoons, comics, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, pointy, sharpen, Sketch, sketchbook
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Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory
…doodling vampires, werewolves and bimbos in a cheap sketchbook while watching trash on television… Continue reading