{"id":39653,"date":"2022-12-07T07:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=39653"},"modified":"2022-12-07T07:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:38:33","slug":"it-came-from-the-sketchbook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/07\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It Came From The Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-the-little-black-book\/it-came-from-the-sb-banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=800%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"it-came-from-the-SB-banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?fit=640%2C96&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=640%2C96&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=300%2C45&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=250%2C37&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The Battle of Sound Odyssey - 1980\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52533885105\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52533885105_428c69a4ec_z.jpg?resize=451%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Battle of Sound Odyssey - 1980\" width=\"451\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I continue to roll along with the <em>Out of This World<\/em> sketchbook attacking it with 2mm leads and various pencils on a daily basis. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do once I&#8217;ve exhausted this $3 sketchpad&#8217;s 125 sheets. I&#8217;ve been trawling the shelves of local <em>Target<\/em> stores looking for a replacement, but it looks like they are not bothering stocking them this holiday season. They are carrying some surprising name brand art supplies such as <em>Strathmore<\/em> which is a nice choice for any amateur or professional artist, but the cheap ones with the ridiculous covers are what works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to roll along with the Out of This World sketchbook attacking it with 2mm leads and various pencils on a daily basis. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do once I&#8217;ve exhausted this $3 sketchpad&#8217;s 125 sheets. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/12\/07\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,16],"tags":[4057,17,8,312,9,5523,907,3661,5,391,5522,4081,3663,25,480],"class_list":["post-39653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","category-sketch","tag-atomic-warrior","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comic","tag-comics","tag-cyborgs","tag-drawing","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-monsters","tag-mutants","tag-pink-zeppelin","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-ajz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24636,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/11\/09\/a-teenage-werewolf-in-a-juvenile-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":39653,"position":0},"title":"A Teenage Werewolf in a Juvenile Sketchbook","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;It Came From the Sketchbook&quot;","block_context":{"text":"It Came From the Sketchbook","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cthulhu.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cthulhu.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cthulhu.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39340,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/not-a-bad-little-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":39653,"position":1},"title":"Not a Bad Little Sketchbook","author":"Joe","date":"October 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished off another inexpensive sketchbook purchased from Target. 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