rambles on rough sketches
I'm still fond of watching lengthy sketchbook tours or short clips of journal flip throughs. I can't help but be amazed with artists who seem to have achieved enlightenment in this lifetime with their neat drawings in every page. But overtime, I have developed more fondness for pages with rough sketches, small thumbnails, scribbles, or unfinished sketches.
Compared to the options we have now, blank notebooks were rare years ago. It was mostly a choice between a thin-paged-notebook from the Japanese store or the large Oslo paper ring-bound sketchbooks. So whenever I chanced upon a good notebook, it feels like every page is precious and must only hold something close to a masterpiece. Anything less than that feels like a waste. The paper lover in me is just glad that we now have a lot to choose from (and a lot to hoard if you can’t resist to buy whenever you chance upon a good one that you really like).
When I randomly sketched my cat, I thought that it’s becoming more of a sketchbook and less of a perfectionist attempt. Decompressing lately has been about emptying out inks and using materials into practice, without all the unecessary pressure. And I would like to keep it this way.
To end this, I would like to share some artists that I’ve stumbled upon. I tend to get lost in their lovely pages as I scroll through their feed:
Laina Deene - The landscapes! The textures! It’s like a healing place for my inner child.
Sammy Savos - It’s a treat to see an address book adventure and some cat updates too.
Nene’s Archive - I don’t understand Thai language but I simply love seeing her illustrations and journal pages.
Feel free to comment your favorites in too. Or if you’ve been doing some sketchbook explorations as well, I would like visit your pages if you don’t mind. I hope you liked viewing some of my sketches as much as I enjoyed making them.
Until the next sketch! 🍋