Sketchbooks

Welcome to my sketchbooks gallery page. Sketchbooks are listed here with galleries as my new and archived work is prepared and added.

Sketchbooks seem to be defined as having a weight of anything less than 100 lb. for the paper. Journals, on the other hand, seem to be defined as having a weight of 100 lb. or more for the paper.

There is a separate gallery page for Journals.

Sketchbooks page is in development. Sketchbooks I have in progress, completed, or near completion are listed here with links to any related pages. I continue to work in the sketchbooks until they are completed and even after that as ideas or inspiration strike for collage, digital or something else.

Thank you for your patience with my process. It is much appreciated.

4.5 x 3 sketch

80 lb. drawing 4 x 6

4×6 drawing 80lb is a sketchbook of my earlier work with life drawing. The images here vary in a mixture of mediums from graphite, pastel, compressed chalk, vine charcoal, and watercolor. This sketchbook has been completed. Work in this sketchbook is open to collage.

Life models found in this sketchbook include the following:
Anonymous Three, Christa, Cynthia, Ginger, Lori S., Jono,
Rob D., Sajda, and Tori.

blue sketchpad 5 x 5

Blue sketch 5 x 5 is another sketchbook for my creative journey into smaller formats. This sketchbook was started in 2014 while I was left to my own devices outside of college courses. Those were done while attending SDAI’s “art gym” at the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park here in San Diego. I continued using this blue sketchbook on occasion in 2015 at “art gym”, at “My Art Shed” in La Jolla, and in my Life Drawing class ARTF210C at San Diego Mesa College.

This 2014 five minute eraser sketch of Rob (shown above) was updated with an addition of acrylic paint via a gel plate in 2023 (shown below). This transitioned into use with a gel plate to apply acrylic paint to paper (paper that generally does not handle the moisture involved with acrylic paint, but works when done just right with a gel plate). From this point in 2023, this became one of my new sketchbooks for my photo reference drawing/painting with Instagram life models and from my model photography archive.

Of course with the addition of painting, I started creating more abstracts. My spiral, flower, and butterfly drawings started getting peppered through in spots, as well.

Life models found in this sketchbook include the following:
Anonymous One, Anonymous Three, @artmodelstl, @ayax_moon, @brocktonwarwick, David, Donovan, Earl, @giovanniortiz6151, @gjthefiguremodel, Glen, Harry Covair, Joel, Jono, @lifefigure_, @lifemodel.rach, @lorent_live_model, @luniversphotos_de_p, @malemodelmtl, @maxexhibiart, Meghan, @mistry.3y3z, @mrkendonagasaki, Rob D., Sabrina, Scott, @stokesjaronalex, @stuinsd, @vivastra_life_modelling, @vlad.uvarov.cg, Yoni, and Zoe.

50 lb. sketching 5 x 7

Life models found in this sketchbook include the following:
Anonymous Two, @giovanniortiz6151, @gjthefiguremodel, @lifefigure_, @luniversphotos_de_p, @maxexhibiart, @mistry.3y3z, and @stokesjaronalex

rainbow sketch 5 x 7

Blue

Red

Life models found in the red pages of the rainbow sketchbook include the following: @lifefigure_, Anonymous One, @vivastra_life_modelling, @mistry.3y3z, and Yoni.

Yellow

Life models found in the yellow pages of the rainbow sketchbook include the following: @malemodelmtl.

Orange

Life models found in the orange pages of the rainbow sketchbook include the following: @gjthefiguremodel, Earl, Donovan, Scott, and Rob D.

Green

Life models found in the green pages of the rainbow sketchbook include the following: @lifefigure_, @artmodelstl, @giovanniortiz6151, and @stuinsd.

Purple

Life models found in the purple pages of the rainbow sketchbook include the following: @maxexhibiart, Glen, @ayax_moon, and @mrkendonagasaki.

65 lb. sketch 5 x 8 volume 1

It was 2013 when I started this sketchbook. I experimented with size and media. I explored what the weight of the paper could handle. I also continued to practice improving my life drawing skills. Some of the images shown here remain in the book and others have been removed and added to portfolios or collaged elsewhere.

5×8 sketch 65lb vol1 contains some inspired spirals and life drawings of various life models at San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) in beautiful Balboa Park at the Museum of the Living Artist. This sketchbook like others is subject to change via collage, page removal, etc.