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A Pretty Good Little Sketchbook

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Joe_Williams

Tina snagged this 5.5 inch by 8.5 inch Canson XL Mixed Media sketchbook from a big box store to hopefully replace my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven. It wasn’t quite the replacement for that cheap but inexplicably magical doodle pad, but … Continue reading →

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Doodle Tuesday: 2mm Red Lead and Trash Video

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Joe

When I sit on the couch and doodle in my sketchbooks, I like to have noise in the background. I usually find some episodic television show, old movie or trash that doesn’t require my strict attention. Trash is the … Continue reading →

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Doodle Tuesday

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Joe

Just lately it seems that I’m hitting the old sketchbooks a lot harder than I have been, and I am having fun while I’m at it. Fortunately for me, this spate of activity is not tied to a single sketchbook … Continue reading →

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Doodle Tuesday

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Joe

Doodling on a trash scratch pad in work.

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Tuesday Doodle

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Joe

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Doodle Tuesday

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Joe

I did this doodle a while back of a door-to-door canvasser. They usually answer one of those flyers that have the tear-off tabs along the bottom.

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Goodbye Half a Sketchbook

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Joe

A while back, I had the bold notion of trying to replicate my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven by cleaving a larger pad of paper in two. It was a great idea, and if it worked, I would have bought several … Continue reading →

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Gasp…BLAM!!!

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Joe_Williams

Doodling in a small, store brand sketchbook that I bought from Dick Blick when it was on sale a couple years ago. I forgot I had this one, but I recently uncovered it in the studio and figured waste not, … Continue reading →

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The Sketchbook from Heaven

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Joe_Williams

In the past I have written about sketchbooks I have bought that seemed like a good idea at the point of purchase but failed miserably when put into practice. Either the sketchbooks looked handsome on the shelf and proved unwieldy … Continue reading →

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Return of the Atomic Warrior

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Joe_Williams

An old friend returned for a visit via the pages of a cheap sketchbook (which I will review once I finish it off.) I was playing with a water soluble Derwent Dark Wash pencil which I bought a while back … Continue reading →

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Holiday Fatigue

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Somewhere at the end of the ’80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter for her as a gag greeting card.

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Scarf Boy

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Joe_Williams

A while back the site Stuff White People Like did one of their many lists of objects and activities particular to Caucasians, and one of them was women wearing scarves as a year ’round fashion accessory. I chuckled because I … Continue reading →

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Giant Monsters at the Y

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Joe_Williams

More aimless sketching at the YMCA. My son and I recently saw the big budget, American remake/reboot of the Japanese kaiju classic, and I guess the big G was floating around my brain and out through the end of my … Continue reading →

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It’s FUN to Draw at the Y.M.C.A.

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Joe_Williams

My son is a water-bug and always has been so we eventually signed him up at the local YMCA and got him squared away with swimming lessons which he took to like…a…fish to water (nice simile, Hemingway!) Our boy goes … Continue reading →