{"id":11466,"date":"2013-01-28T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:09:12","slug":"son-of-sketchbook-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/01\/28\/son-of-sketchbook-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Sketchbook From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner-2\"<\/a>I was up tending to my long neglected third floor studio trying to cut a path through the clutter so I could get some work done when I uncovered another forgotten, hardbound sketchbook on a shelf in a closet. At first I thought it was one of Tina’s, but when I opened it, I recognized the chicken scratch within as my own. I had forgotten all about it.
\n\"sonofsketchbook\"<\/a>I flipped through this almost square, 8 inch by 7.25 inch, hardbound sketchbook, and it all came back to me. Oh, yeah, this was another sketchbook that seemed like a good idea when I bought it, but never worked out that way in practice. It was The Son of The Sketchbook From HELL!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first drawing in it was from December 28, 1988<\/strong>. The last entry is a little over three years later – January 24, 1992<\/strong> – and nothing after that for the next 21 years.<\/p>\n

\"worn-corner\"<\/a>I must have carried it around a lot because it’s fairly worn. Once again I thought I would jot down something brilliant in my travels so I made sure to always have it on me. Sadly, the pages between the covers show no trace of brilliance. It’s mainly scratchy and crude little sketches for freelance assignments that I vaguely remember. There’s notes written here and there; doodles that died mid-drawing and a truly awful self-promotional idea that fortunately never saw the light of day. This book makes the original Sketchbook from Hell<\/a> seem like a masterpiece in comparison. Of interest was a cut-out picture of Tom Jones on the inside front cover:<\/p>\n

\"tom-jones\"<\/a><\/p>\n

…and a tiny dragon drawing done in Alvin Penstix and colored pencil.<\/p>\n

\"dragon-head\"<\/a>The rest is utterly forgettable which is probably the reason I forgot about it.<\/p>\n

There’s about twenty blank pages left in it, and I’ll take this to and from work and attempt to redeem it and myself with a halfway decent drawing. If something good comes of the remaining pages, I’ll post them here. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was up tending to my long neglected third floor studio trying to cut a path through the clutter so I could get some work done when I uncovered another forgotten, hardbound sketchbook on a shelf in a closet. 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