tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2346178345655867748.post3768985401446261179..comments2023-10-20T08:50:03.131+01:00Comments on Paleo Illustrata: Why sketchbooks are essentialStu Pondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389601261560266346noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2346178345655867748.post-38317826788358281952011-07-01T18:22:51.877+01:002011-07-01T18:22:51.877+01:00Thank you for a brilliant post. You're so righ...Thank you for a brilliant post. You're so right. A few years ago I decided to start sketching more instead of focusing most of my art on serious drawings and treating sketching only as a stage. <br /><br />I can't believe how much my drawing improved. I was pretty good when I started, but what I do now makes my first sketchbooks look like a kid did them. <br /><br />I am working on building up my paleo-art skills currently and dared to choose "Prehistoric" as my theme for the 2012 Sketchbook Project by the Art House Collective.<br /><br />http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject has been going for some years now. For a fee, they send you a sketchbook. You do what you want in it, mail your sketchbook back to them and it goes on tour and becomes part of a permanent exhibit.<br /><br />Every year as you sign in, there's a drop-down list of themes available. This year, I saw "Prehistoric" and my jaw dropped. Okay, this is it, this is the year I learn to sketch saber tooth cats, mastodons and archosauria. I was going to theme it all on working on my Pleistocene setting novel, but reading this - hey, why not treat it as a sketchbook and just fill it with studies of anything that "Prehistoric" brings to mind.robertsloan2arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02598847116529877475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2346178345655867748.post-40201291275140671602011-06-17T15:38:51.361+01:002011-06-17T15:38:51.361+01:00Dinosaurs and Moleskines? what can go wrong??
Grea...Dinosaurs and Moleskines? what can go wrong??<br />Great blog!!Ezequielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08928499501553499757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2346178345655867748.post-60397611890880596212011-06-06T13:46:27.318+01:002011-06-06T13:46:27.318+01:00Excellent! To me ,the pencil is a surrogate for yo...Excellent! To me ,the pencil is a surrogate for your sense of touch . It is like running your hands over what you see , in my opinion . Much better than a keyboard I would imagine .Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01254513363963100560noreply@blogger.com