sketchbook project

In the background there’s sort of a monster hiding in a sock drawer for Leah. 🙂 I spent most of today working on a bigger project, but I can’t show it to you (yet). It’s a surprise.

I had so little time for art today. For these pages I just grabbed a pencil and doodled in my monster sketchbook. The pencil itself was kind of interesting: a standard American number-2 dark blue pencil with “1990 FBLA DISTRICT II SKILLS’ CONFERENCE” stamped in gold on it. I wondered where it came from, and … Read more

Luckily I have some good suggestions for future monsters from the comments of yesterday’s post. And then there was my trainer at bootcamp today… Hopefully I’ll be done with this notebook by the end of the month.

Eh, you try filling a whole sketchbook with monsters. Not easy.

I love the view out my studio window in Munich. The building right across the street has the best embellishments on top: pointy turrets, triangular bits of façade, clay roof tiles, dormers with arched windows. And then there’s the monster who lives there. I started this page of my monster sketchbook earlier today, then sat … Read more

It had to be done. Do you like the hint of monster cleavage?

My monsters were feeling uninspired today. Not every monster can be a masterpiece. Perhaps I’ll paint over them later, depending on how soon I manage to fill in all the pages of my sketchbook the first time. This second one is based on some cute monster fence posts we saw in London. I’ll probably add … Read more

I worked on a bunch of art projects today, but most of them are not yet blog-worthy. So here’s another page from my monster sketchbook. The other art of the day was of the performance variety, kind of. I participated in a flash mob in Munich. (If you don’t know what a flash mob is, … Read more

Another page in my ahhh monster sketchbook. I printed out a photograph from my trip to London in black and white and pasted it in the sketchbook. Then I colored in parts of it using gouache and magic markers. PS – If you want to read more about London, I wrote up my trip on … Read more

I promise I’ll start posting something besides monster sketches again soon. Maybe even tomorrow.