Malacandrax Sketchbook V.4

I've finished another physical sketchbook, so here's the compiled version, plus some silly photos of my unwieldy archives (I have to hold the tower up now or it'll fall...). I'm not sure how I feel about this sketchbook, I'm really excited to have started using pencils again after a long time of pen, and I did tons of drawing from life, which has been fun. However, as always I wish I was braver and did more from my imagination! Next sketchbook for sure!

This pdf volume is #28! I started numbering them the summer before university (2012), since that's when I got more serious about improving my art. I love getting to take photos of them all together, and honestly getting to pull out my monstrous sticker collection when I decorate a new one is my favourite thing. I actually took a break from 2017-2020 where I did everything digitally and I am somewhat upset that there's a gap haha, having archives on the PC isn't the same as a tangible object. (and it would have made a more impressive tower, alas)

I included a pic of sketchbook #1 for anyone interested in what my art was like in the early books, I would have been 18 then! (I'm 31 now). My tumblr archive does actually go all the way back to then... yikes. I did keep sketchbooks before then, but I had like 4 at once for different purposes (one was for...copying manga...)

A lot of the early sketchbooks I bound myself using old national geographic pics (#5+6), or old books who's insides I pulled out and replaced (#8+9). I also used my friends handmade sketchbooks -#3 and #22!

Currently my fav sketchbook is the daler rowney ebony- it takes most mediums pretty well, tho I took a risk for my new one and got a shockingly expensive pith sketchbook- which turns out is too big for my scanner...........BUT it's coptic bound (like my friends, nudge nudge haha) which means it'll lay flat and hopefully rub my pencil sketches less than a ringbound! My biggest gripe with pencil is that even when I seal it, it still leaves a mess when the pages rub since I carry my sketchbook around with me.

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 I'm not quite ready to release the normal sketchbook update- I want to do a bit more digital stuff before I do, but I figured I'd share this earlier- so the end is pages from my Holiday!