I’m a firm believer that working regularly in a sketchbook is a really beneficial practice for artists.\u00a0I know there are some really phenomenal cartoonists who pretty much only draw when they’re working on an actual project, but I’m just not at that level skill-wise. For me, that’d be like just showing up for the game, but never showing up for practice–and I for sure need all the practice I can get drawing-wise.<\/p>\n
That said, I don’t get to work in my sketchbook nearly as much as I should ideally. I just\u00a0ran out of pages in this particular sketchbook which I started\u00a0at the end of June last year. It’s an 80 page book and I draw on both sides of the page, so that comes out to just a couple of pages a week. On the other hand, though, that’s all pure sketchbook noodling. I thumbnail my comics on loose printer paper.<\/p>\n
Anyway, just for fun here’s a gallery of a handful of pages.\u00a0You can see that in addition to my usual subjects of\u00a0made-up faces, hands, and clothing\/drapery, I’m trying to work on using black for shadows (AKA “spotting blacks”) and on getting better with the human figure\/lines of action. Those are two areas that I’m definitely going to continue to work at in my newly-started sketchbook.<\/p>\n\n\t\t