{"id":47264,"date":"2026-03-17T07:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=47264"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:19:06","slug":"it-wasnt-the-worst-little-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/03\/17\/it-wasnt-the-worst-little-sketchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn’t the Worst Little Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I wasn’t crazy about this discounted discount sketchbook when I first got it<\/a>, but now that it’s gone, I realize it wasn’t that bad after all!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It was more of a notebook than it was a sketchbook, but it was nice to have something close at hand that I could scribble whatever came to mind whether it was an inventory of computer parts I have on hand or working out a story idea for a comic strip.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I did some sketching. The paper didn’t take ink as well as some of the other sketchbooks I have written about, but I scribbled away in it just the same.<\/p>\n

\"Red <\/a>
Red Pencil Critter <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Punk <\/a>
Punk puffing a butt <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Muscular <\/a>
Muscular Teenage Beast <\/div> <\/div>
\"Smoking's <\/a>
Smoking’s bad for you, kid! <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The title says it all <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Werewolf\" <\/a>
Werewolf <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"confrontation\" <\/a>
confrontation <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Employable <\/a>
Employable punky chick <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Failed <\/a>
Failed Valentine <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Edgy <\/a>
Edgy graphic designer <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Failed <\/a>
Failed sound effect but interesting texture <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"punky <\/a>
punky chick <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Teenage <\/a>
Teenage Beast grins <\/div> <\/div>
\"Back <\/a>
Back together again <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bird <\/a>
Bird is scared <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"dragon\" <\/a>
dragon <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

I may get another one of these sketchbooks if it’s on sale, but I have a few others on hand that I will probably move on to next.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t crazy about this discounted discount sketchbook when I first got it, but now that it’s gone, I realize it wasn’t that bad after all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47271,"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":[4953,49],"tags":[158,17,8,9,76,43,3661,4543,2143,3663,25,5937,480],"class_list":["post-47264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doodle-tuesday","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-analog","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-comics","tag-horror","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-monkey-and-bird","tag-punk","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-teenage-beast","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/250-penny-sketchbook.jpg?fit=640%2C895&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-cik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39340,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/10\/20\/not-a-bad-little-sketchbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":47264,"position":0},"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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