ik zit in een museum onder de grond
maar zat ik maar op het strand
met een cocktail in m'n hand
in het zand
op m'n kont

( I don't know... it just popped in )

Imagine all you can find in your house that still has black ink in it ( not ballpoints ) is a HEMA fineliner. And you have this sudden and rare urge to ink a couple of sketches. The uploaded "Girl_X"s show what happens.
I guess it's a good basis to start working with photoshop on. Which offers a good opportunity to get more used to that penpad thing. ( It doesn't feel like a pen or pencil on paper, which is probably what makes it work so odd in my opinion )

Hairy, yes. My sketchbooks have sketchpaper. Ink tends to flow. All this to emphasise it was only a doodle, nothing serious.
Why girls ?
Why not.
And no, they're not anatomically correct. I couldn't be bothered with that this time. Just doodles really.

... if you want you're welcome to play with them. ( I'd appreciate it if my name was still mentioned somewhere )

Enfin, enjoy and
CD!

O.

Following the idea I set with sketchbook 0, here is sketchbook 1.
Sketchbook 1 is mainly comments on the news I get wrestled down my throat by all kinds of free ( and quality-starved ) daily newspapers one gets confronted with when using public transportation in the Netherlands.
Good idea maybe, but I conciously chose to be "news" starved. ( there hasn't been anything new on the news since WWII ). However... if that misinformation does trickle into my brain via frontpages, it tends to provoke some thoughts.
Thoughts sometimes get visualised ( especially if I got irritated, I tend to try and use my drawings as a lightning-rod. Letting the irritation "ground out" in a little drawn rant or stab.

Anyway, enjoy. If it offends you, leaf on.
( Don't get too pissed, somethings will always offend someone, there is no hope to avoid that and I won't let it hold me back. Make a drawing yourself if it irritates you, if I can use drawings that way, then you can too )

And enfin...

Carpe diem

O.

Yes I've added sketchbook 0 to my scraps collection.

What is a sketchbook?
Literally that, a book that slowly fills with sketches. I'm in the habit of buying dummies ( books with no print ) and filling those up. They exist as far as I know in 4 sizes. stamp, postcard, pocket and normal.
I have more or less always had one from age 18. They are my dairies but in a coded way.

What is sketchbook 0?
Sketchbook 0 is the 'now' sketchbook. I don't keep dates in my sketchbooks normally, and if i did, my RAM (random access method) which involves finding the first book with empty pages in it and start scribbling, would still make it impossible for reliable dating.
Sketchbooks that come after this one will have a positive number, Sketchbooks (many) that predated this one will have a negative number.

These sketchbooks.
Of course I go through a little filtering before I throw something online.
I also try to make the images, usually pencil on paper, a little more visible. I don't go through too much effort though, as it only concerns sketches here.

Hope you enjoy it, if you don't, well too bad. Hope it inspired you then.
Carpe diem

I went to the museum today [link] one of the expositions was named 'verloren paradijs', which translates to 'paradise lost'. It's a collection of drawings, most of which are huge

Raquel Maulwurf
Black/white, mostly charcoal on paper.
Almost a plurry photograph. If you look through your lashes thepicture becomes clearer. Powerful but dark images.
I particularly liked one I saw it for an instant from the corner of my eye and immediately thought: 'one of those images of a night bombrun over some town'

Hans de Wit
Amazing work, must be timeconsuming.Depth, structure, light. It's mostly charcoal, pencil and pastels on paper,
Fantastic images that keep revealing new things. I loved them, I'll never hang them in my house though.
( my ceilings are too low )

Aji VN
Charcoal on coloured paper.
It's not photorealistic, but still clear images are presented.You think of trees in the mist or buildings seen through curtains. The contrasts are a lot softer than the images referred to above.

Erik Odijk
charcoal and pastel on paper.
He shows structures, from landscapes to details. Some make you think of a dark corner in a forest, others of moss or ore on rock.
I really like this work.

Renie Spoelstra
Charcoal on paper
Even though I liked some of the images, I find the variations in the images somewhat limited.
Here too, the image is like you're looking at something
through your eyelashes.

Robbie Cornelissen
Pencil on paper
Respect for this man. really enormous pencildrawings, 8 square meters of drawing. Huge drawings of huge scenes. The detaillevel is also enormous..
The drawings are great to look at closely, if you step back a few meters alas, the result is a bit plain, low-contrast grey.

Sandro Setola
Charcoal and chaulk on paper and blackboard
Some images remind of comics, others architectural sketches. On every work there was something that appealed to me, on most works however there also was the idea the work wasn't finished yet.

All in all an exposition I would recommend to anyone who thinks pencil and charcoal are only for sketch-stage and never anything to be taken serious as an end-product.
...And to everyone else too.

Enjoy and...
create