Here is my entry for EDM #132, “Chain”. This was done w/pencil in my new, larger Moleskine sketchbook.

kw: pencil, moleskine, sketchbook, sketch, drawing, edm, everyday matters, every day

This was started 8-7-07 and I just finished it now.  I started drawing this sketch while at the dentist’s office and I got called in before I was done.  Luckily, I took a camera-phone pic of the scene I got called back, so I was able to finish the sketch now from the photo.

kw: moleskine, sketch, sketchbook, pencil

Here are two pages from my Moleskine that I did today. One is more of a journal entry w/ a little Pug doodle, the other is a more full-fledged doodle. I need to / want to sit down and concentrate on finishing some sketches that I have started. I really want to finish them and post them.

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Drawn w/ a fountain pen in my small Moleskine while out for “beer and wings”.

kw: molesking, sketchbook, pen, fountain pen, salt shaker

Is there a word for “the inability to finish a project”? It’s not procrastinationg, I think that’d be putting off a project entirely. Idunno.

I just went to scan in some drawings and realized that I have WAY more unfinished drawings than finished ones. I gotta stop that. This is nuts!

Anyway, here is ONE finished one I can post… well, is it finished? I actually meant to draw more of this and then I drove away from the area. I DID take a photo but am just unmotivated to draw from the photo (it’s still on the camera). So I decided to write a journal entry next to it instead to fill the page. Stupid, maybe.

This was drawin in my new Moleskine. I decided to try a larger Moleskine sketchbook. I have a few of the small, purse-sized ones that I will ALWAYS carry. I also have a watercolor one that is larger. But I wanted a larger one w/ sketch paper in it. I picked it up the other day and was pleasantly surpised to find it qualified for the tax-free week exemption (for Back-To-School supplies).

This is the back of a Barnes & Noble bookstore.

I’m not the hugest fan of the paper in the Moleskine “sketchbook”. It’s card-like and off-white, which when scanned looks REALLY yellow- especially if you have to boost the contrast to bring out your light sketching. But anyway, there ya go.

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This is just a doodle.  But it felt nice to pick up a pencil again.  Somehow it’d been days, maybe weeks, since I picked up a pencil to sketch.  I have no idea why.  Sometimes that just happens.  This was just the tile on the table at Chili’s tonight.

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As I’ve mentioned before, I concentrate better during a meeting if I can draw while listening. I am sure this is the case for many people, but those that put on meetings (or classes) probably get mad when they see people doodling or drawing. But if I can doodle or draw, I can pay attention to every word said. But if I am forced to “pay attenion” and watch the talker, then first I drift off to thoughts that pop in my head, then daydream, then fall asleep. I wonder how many kids get yelled at for this kind of thing.

This is a ladybug desktop on my Macbook laptop. I drew this during a meeting. Done on 7-28-07.

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Around 7-26-07 I drew a flower w/ colored pencil on the front of a blank card for my brother.  The drawing was based on a photo that I saw on flickr that I liked a lot.  I took a pic of it, this is it;

kw: colored pencil, flower, sketchbook.

I am still here.  I have a few partially-finished sketches in various sketchbooks, so if I do any sketching, it depends on which sketchbook I have with me that day.  I have not been as prolific w/ my Moleskine, the one that’s always in my purse.   Not sure why.  No reason, really.   I just got back from a long, crazy weekend and this week I have to call the dentist about a tooth, clean the house, get stuff out of the “old” house, and a few other things.  I hope I find time to draw!