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

October 22, 2009 by Douglas Bonneville

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.

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About Douglas Bonneville

Douglas has been a graphic designer since 1992, in addition to software developer and author. He is a member of Smashing Magazine's "Panel of Experts" and has contributed to over 100 articles. He is the author of "The Big Book of Font Combinations", loves cats, and plays guitar.

Comments

  1. Maddie says

    October 3, 2010 at 1:50 am

    How many pages does it have total? I’m thinking about doing it…

  2. Douglas Bonneville says

    October 3, 2010 at 1:53 am

    Mine was 40 pages…sounded so few when I got started!

  3. Preeti says

    November 18, 2010 at 6:16 pm

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

  4. Douglas Bonneville says

    November 19, 2010 at 1:06 am

    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.

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