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Embellished Sketches: My sketchbooks were, for years, where I worked out elements for comic strips and animations. More recently they have become an integral part of my creative process for paintings and stand-alone drawings. Originally I planned to trim these drawings with finishing touches, but only the first five received this treatment.

These drawings are on Strathmore’s 400 series paper, mostly. My use of this paper is accidental and stems from teaching a cartooning class for kids in the early 2000s. Some students never completed the course, so I was left with the remainder of their unused drawing tablets. The natural cream color of the paper is perserved in some examples.

YouTube Channel Content and Sketchbooks: My YouTube Channel dominates my life as a creator as of June 2023; and as my sketchbooks document not only ideas for paintings and finished drawings but also sketches for time-lapse photography and short animations, there is little time left for an idle, self-undulgent doodle. The situation is evolving, so any plans I may have for a set of drawings can be overturned by week’s end. There is little benefit in declaring, ahead of time, how these drawings will get absorbed into the channel, although animation becomes less likely as things go along. (More on this in my blog pages.)

The next page explores in detail the development of an animation from sketches circa 2018.

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