{"id":39340,"date":"2022-10-20T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39340"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:23:55","slug":"not-a-bad-little-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/not-a-bad-little-sketchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Bad Little Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"I finished off another inexpensive sketchbook purchased from Target. I’ve had luck with the cheap little sketchbooks they carry so when we see something new on the shelves, we snag it. The paper was all right for dry media but wrinkled with anything wet which I expected. It wasn’t a Sketchbook from Heaven<\/em>, but it wasn’t bad for doodles and notes. I may pick up another one after I kill off a few sketchbooks I have sitting around the studio.<\/p>\n

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I finished off another inexpensive sketchbook purchased from Target. I’ve had luck with the cheap little sketchbooks they carry so when we see something new on the shelves, we snag it. The paper was all right for dry media but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,16],"tags":[158,17,8,4274,310,5,3663,25,5482,480,3660],"class_list":["post-39340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-analog","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-cheap","tag-doodle","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-sketchbook-from-heaven","tag-usa","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/UCREATE-SKETCHBOOK.jpg?fit=500%2C674&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24433,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/10\/02\/another-cheap-sketchbook-bites-the-dust\/","url_meta":{"origin":39340,"position":0},"title":"Another Cheap Sketchbook Bites the Dust","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Llama Sketchbook: December 27, 2017 to September 29, 2018 Well, at least there is a llama beneath the stickers. 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