christening new sketchbooks

Posted on May 1 2009 by dan fone

Yay, a lovely new pile of sketchbooks! Every few months I hop on my bike and go over to my old art college shop to get some of these; super-cheap but very good. Much less intimidating that something expensive like Moleskines. Then I wonder why everyone keeps asking me if I’m a student when I’m drawing. I also stopped by the new art supply shop near Camberwell Green, it’s really good! I used to go straight up the East London Line to Atlantis, in the East End, but ever since that tube line was closed for extention works (and will be until next year), that’s sort of cut off the neighbourhood for me; I only make that long trek very occasionally now.

So Gary Northfield helped me fill the first page of two of my new sketchbooks; we both drew the top half of a monster and then swapped and did the bottom half.

30 Responses to christening new sketchbooks

  5. dan fone says:

    Ha ha, drawing the one on the right, I clearly remember saying to Gary, ‘Ah, I will put him in a Wilbur Dawbarn jumper!’ I should’ve brought an orange marker.

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  13. raisegrate says:

    I doodle and sketch all the bloody time, and yet /shame/ — I have never owned a sketchbook. Horrors!

    Excellent monsterage! Love their hats and shoes.

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  14. raisegrate says:

    I doodle and sketch all the bloody time, and yet /shame/ — I have never owned a sketchbook. Horrors!

    Excellent monsterage! Love their hats and shoes.

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    • dan fone says:

      Funnily enough, I don’t do most of my morning sketches in my sketchbooks. I usually use cheap-o Asda printer paper so I can trace them on my lightbox. But I use the sketchbooks for everything else: taking notes, doodling when I’m out and about, etc.

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  17. vegenas says:

    i’m a camberwell graduate! Their sketchbooks are great, they have these large gray hardback a4 ones which are fantastic, not alot could make the quality within the price range.

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  18. vegenas says:

    i’m a camberwell graduate! Their sketchbooks are great, they have these large gray hardback a4 ones which are fantastic, not alot could make the quality within the price range.

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  19. dan fone says:

    Funnily enough, I don’t do most of my morning sketches in my sketchbooks. I usually use cheap-o Asda printer paper so I can trace them on my lightbox. But I use the sketchbooks for everything else: taking notes, doodling when I’m out and about, etc.

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