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Art Post - Historical Scanning, Sketchbook 44, End

Added 2023-01-27 14:00:03 +0000 UTC

Slim pickings as I finish up scanning Sketchbook 44, the first one I've gotten done from beginning to end since the new scanner appeared mysteriously on my doorstep... and the reason staggered me when I figured it out. I did TWENTY-THREE sketches on one day. Twenty-three! Of those 23, most were ragged quick things, barely a few lines on paper, and then I either moved on because I didn't like how it was shaping up, or I moved on because that was as much of that idea as I needed on paper... but overwhelmingly, what I did was move on.

This was often how I operated, especially in college: tearing through sketchbooks just to get ideas out of my head, and not pausing to develop almost any of them. The ones I did, though, I usually went all in... but it was rare.

Here are the last two from Sketchbook 44 (we're still in 1995, when I'm working on the first Jokka novel, recall), then:

Roika - He looks a lot scruffier in initial sketches (and smaller), but I was bad at drawing anatomy, worse at drawing men, and all the Jokka were furrier and looked wilder. But the beard works for him, and the way he's staring is spot-on. He looks like someone who could remake a world.
Provider - And here's Thenet, fishing for Dlane from the beginning of part 2 of Shell. This was one of the 'all in' pieces, which were usually finished in ink, and I like the movement in this one, and the shading style.

Debating where to start on something more recent next or go OLDER. We'll see!