{"id":38187,"date":"2022-07-13T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38187"},"modified":"2022-07-13T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:23:21","slug":"the-other-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/07\/13\/the-other-half\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Half"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBack in 2017, I had what I thought was a pretty good idea for replicating the size and shape of my beloved Sketchbook from Heaven<\/em><\/a> by cleaving<\/a> a 9-inch by 12-inch drawing pad into two 9-inch by 6-inch pads. It worked in that I had two landscape tablets to sketch in that would easily travel, but they weren’t magic like the cheap little pad from Target. I don’t know what made that cheap little sketchbook so special but it was. It was always at hand begging to be drawn in, and I was pleased with what I scrawled across its pages. This was not the case with the half-a-sketchbook<\/em>. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t magic<\/em>. I finished the first half,<\/em><\/a> and I put the other half aside for later. <\/p>\n

Eventually later came, and I grabbed the other half and worked my way through it. It’s a Canson Mixed Media<\/em> pad and it has a nice, heavyweight paper that will take both wet and dry media without wrinkling. I hammered away at it with 2mm leads of various colors, water soluble graphite, markers and Progresso woodless color pencils. They are mainly doodles, notions and story ideas. I just had fun usually while watching trash television<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Other Half Sketchbook \u2022 April 11, 2021 to July 12, 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ink <\/a>
Ink brushes and markers <\/div> <\/div>
\"Nora <\/a>
Nora the Explorer <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Nora\" <\/a>
Nora <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Noblot <\/a>
Noblot pencil drawing <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Progresso <\/a>
Progresso (not the soup) color pencils <\/div> <\/div>
\"I <\/a>
I hate meddlesome kids <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior sword aflame <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atomic <\/a>
Atomic Warrior faces Pink Zeppelin <\/div> <\/div>
\"atomic-warrior-crouched\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tight <\/a>
Tight spot <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"RUN <\/a>
RUN for it! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"New <\/a>
New Helmet <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavengers <\/a>
Scavengers — The Muscle <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavengers <\/a>
Scavengers — The Muscle <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Forager\" <\/a>
Forager <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Just <\/a>
Just the facts <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Nora <\/a>
Nora variation <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The red claw <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Masked Scooterer <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Trying <\/a>
Trying not to think about it <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hulkette\" <\/a>
Hulkette <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Pink <\/a>
Pink swings <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scavenging <\/a>
Scavenging Trio <\/div> <\/div>
\"Progresso <\/a>
Progresso color pencil scribbles <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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