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Tag Archives: Sketch
Tuesday Doodle
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged doodle, Monkey and Bird, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook
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Doodle Tuesday
Doodle of the current fashion cliche infesting urban areas
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, doodle, hipster, Sketch, sketchbook
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Doodle Tuesday
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.
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged canvasser, counterculture, doodle, door-to-door, drawing, Sketch
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Doodle Tuesday
Drawn with an unsharpened 2mm red lead. I get lazy about sharpening.
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged doodle, girl, red, Sketch, summer, wind
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Goodbye Half a Sketchbook
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
Posted in Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Atomic Warrior, doodle, drawing, ink, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, landscape, mixed media, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook, small
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Gasp…BLAM!!!
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
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Atomic Warrior, cheap sketchbook, Derwent, doodle, drawing, Halloween, Sketch, sketchbook
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Another One Bites the Dust
I finally finished off the juvenile sketchbook that I hoped would have the same magic as the Sketchbook from Heaven, but sadly, it did not. It wasn’t the worst sketchbook I ever carried, but at $3.00 for 150 sheets, you … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged cartoons, cheap, doodle, Joe Williams, juvenile, Sketch, sketchbook
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Pill Poppin’ Truckers and Frankenstein Monsters
I’ve been sitting on the couch lately, doodling while watching trash on my Roku streaming box. I dumped Netflix over a year ago but hung onto Amazon’s Prime Video. It’s got a lot of popular movies, television series and compelling … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku
Tagged 1957, Chuck Connors, doodles, Frankenstein, ink, library, monster, Peter Graves, Roku, Sketch, sketchbook, streaming, trash, video
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A Teenage Werewolf in a Juvenile Sketchbook
A couple of doodles in the cheap sketchbook. The paper bleeds like crazy with ink and does not work to well with the water soluble pencils, but is real happy with my red leads and Blackwing 602 pencil.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged horror, Joe Williams, Lovecraft, monster, Sketch, sketchbook, USA, werewolf
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