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The following pages from my sketchbook “Slave of a Fool” are from the first 2 days of the ArtJam 07 as well as the trainride to the event.

So here are the best of the pages 114 – 145 of “Slave of a Fool”:

If you want to see all the content of the 32 Pages, have a look at Page 2 of this post, but be warned, most of it is quite bad, though I was kind of proud of it at the time.

Alright then, here are the next sketchbook pages from “Slave of a Fool”. For the meaning of the name and some further explanations abot this Sketchbook, have a look into the first part post of this sketchbook.

So here is the quite bad best of the pages 94 – 113 of “Slave of a Fool”:

If you want to see all the content of the 20 Pages, have a look at Page 2 of this post, but be warned, most of it is quite bad, though I was kind of proud of it at the time.

My very first sketchbook, which I started in 2004, was just titled “SketchBook I” and it took me about 3 years to fill it, despite the fact, that it only had 80 pages. I didn’t draw as much then as I do nowadays, but during the last pages of that sketchbook I realised, how much fun it is and that I want to be really good at it and would like to make a living out of it at some point, so I started to draw much more often …

Around that time I thought about how sketchbooks are kind of best friends to oneself, or maybe the term children is more suiting in this case, you care for them most of the time (somedays you don’t), they are like companions and follow you everywhere when you let them.
But what would children be without names? So I decided to give them names (Gilmore Girls is probably to blame for that), names that have a meaning for me, not just random human names, but more like phrases that relate to me, my state of mind or to media, that impresses me in a touching way. These names also give my sketchbooks a personal, an alive touch, at least for me that is.
Beginning with the second one they will also have individual covers, which correspond to the particular names.

Additionally I decided to also categorize my new sketchbooks:
• Sketchbooks that I only draw into when I’m not at home, so everything I draw in parks, during trainrides, during classes, at friends, at bars and so on, ends up inside these. I do some clean ups and flesh outs on pages in these sketchbooks at home on occasion, but the main ideas and roughs are done outwards.
These sketchbooks belong to the category “SketchBook Urbane” or SBU in short.

• Then there’s a sketchbook on my desk that only contains fleshed/rendered out drawings, though its still pretty empty and I should draw inside it more often, but thats not the point right now.
This sketchbook belongs to the category “SketchBook Royale” or SBR in short.

• Furthermore I plan on getting sketchbooks extra for the purpose of being a reference collection. So always when I learn something and practise it for a while until I think I got it, I would draw it inside this sketchbooks and write some descriptions and notes in addition. So these sketchbooks would act as kind of a rule book whenever I’m not sure about stuff I knew before.
I’m still not sure about the category name though, for now “SketchBook Educate” and “SketchBook Brainfood” are on my mind, but maybe something better will pop up …

• I’m also thinking about starting another sketchbook category, something like the “SketchBook Urbane”, but for the use at home, where I could doodle some ideas and experiments without having to flesh them out in the end. Right now I use loose sheets of printerpaper for this …
I’m also not sure about what to call this category, “SketchBook Zone” is on my mind, but it doesn’t fit that well …

Yeah, it’s about time for the next pile of sketchbook pages from “Slave of a Fool”. For the meaning of the name and some further explanations abot this Sketchbook, have a look into the first part post of this sketchbook.

So here is the best of the pages 65 – 93 of “Slave of a Fool”:

If you want to see all the content of the 29 Pages, have a look at Page 2 of this post, but be warned, most of it is quite bad, though I was kind of proud of it at the time.

It’s rare that I draw or paint digitaly, but about every half a year I feel the urge to redeem my tablet from its existence as a dust catcher and improve my digital drawing/painting skills. So yeah, its about that time … actually its way due …
I thought about rendering a sketch, actually I wanted to try it for a long time now and finally got around to do it, so I took one face out of the scans of my Sketchbook “Slave of a Fool”, page 37 face 7 to be precise, and tried to render it … here’s the result:

I just suck in drawing as well as painting (as I just realized) eyes and eyebrows, why are they so frackin dificult to get right … gotta practice them and hair and lots of other stuff and probably do digital paintings more often then just twice a year … but considering the fact, that its around the 20th digital work I’ve done so far and just half of them involved some shaded coloring, I guess the result is not that bad.

Alright then, here we go with the next bunch of pages from my sketchbook “Slave of a Fool”. For the meaning of the name and some further explanations abot this Sketchbook, have a look into the first part post of this sketchbook.

So here is the best of the pages 32 – 64 of “Slave of a Fool”:

If you want to see all the content of the 33 Pages, have a look at Page 2 of this post, but be warned, most of it is quite bad, though I was kind of proud of it at the time.

So, here we go with the sketchbooks. Instead to number my sketchbooks I decided to give them names, that relate to myself or to media that somehow impresses me, to make ‘em more personal.
Slave of a Fool: Where the slave is my hand or the pencil I’m using and the fool is me.
During this sketchbook I was going through a phase, where I was convinced that drawing more (quantity) by drawing less (quality) would improve my ability to draw rough sketches much faster and more precise, in the end it actually worked out that way, but with the major limitation that my recent Sketches mostly look kind of similar to each other, because I tend to make the same shortcuts when I start a new face/head drawing. And it’s really hard to break this habit.

So here is the best of the first 31 pages of “Slave of a Fool”:

If you want to see all the content of the 31 Pages, have a look at Page 2 of this post, but be warned, most of it is quite bad, though I was kind of proud of it at the time.

Actually, this was supposed to be a new year’s post, so I’m probably half a year late for that, but I wanted to start blogging again and after a long time out, this title seems fitting.

So, thats it, I don’t have anything to say in mind, so here are some sketches instead, most recent loose pages … I’ve got more recent sketches, but they are in my Sketchbooks, which I started to scan … but there are still 1400 pages until I’m all through, so expect some massive updates in the next couple decades ^^.