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Art House Co-Op’s “The Sketchbook Project” Moleskine sketches, pages 12-13

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For pages 12-13 of my Art House Co-Op “Sketchbook Project” Moleskine, I wanted to do a simple exercise using quasi-isometric shapes. The inclusion of Blackletter type is just totally random. I drew the substructure in pencil and did the black and white work with a Micron .01. The Moleskine paper in this particular book has not grown fond of me nor I of it.
  • The Moleskine paper is prone to bleeding anything and everything. If I open the Moleskine in room lighting, it looks exactly like the scan. I normally use a variety of acid-free, heavy weight white paper with the thick wire binding you see in various sizes at any art store. I have never bled through any of the pages. It must be this particular model.
  • While the flatness and paper texture are wonderful, the Moleskine paper weight is not heavy enough to support really any media without bleeding. Oh well.
  • As my project is entitled, “It’s not easy being green”, we can now add “It’s not easy drawing in a semi-transparent Moleskine notebook”, and hence, I have to draw concepts, if any, very lightly on the even page and focus on only using one side of the odd page.
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Moleskine sketchbook pages 12-13

Blackletter type of the word "Green" with lots of angles surrounding.

Blackletter type of the word "Green" with lots of angles surrounding.

Close up and cross hatching of a few letters and angles.

Close up and cross hatching of a few letters and angles.

Comments

  3. Hi,
    Great work… Even I’m having trouble with the weight of the paper. Did you find a way to make it work?

  4. No, those moleskines are really, really thin. I just ordered a “normal” moleskine for comparison, and the paper must be 4x as thick. The only solution I had towards the end was to draw only on one page and not on the back of that page.