What extraordinary scanned sketchbooks have people found out there?

January 27, 2005 9:53 PM

After seeing this impressive sketchbook I'm wondering what others are out there. What extraordinary scanned sketchbooks have people found out there?
posted by gwint to Media & Arts (14 answers total)

My tastes are more toward the comic oriented than anything else, but these are two of my favs: Scott Bateman's Sketchbook of Secrets & Shame. Kris Dresen's GirlThrow
posted by FlamingBore at 10:01 PM on January 27, 2005

Here's a MeFi thread on one a while back.
posted by pedantic at 10:05 PM on January 27, 2005

This was more of a collective art project, but still an amazing sketchbook. Also, they have prints of pages and reproductions of the book available for purchase.
posted by fionab at 10:26 PM on January 27, 2005

Metafilter's own atom128 keeps a very beautiful sketchbook.
posted by Marit at 11:06 PM on January 27, 2005

Moleskinerie is worth a look. Also here.
posted by stuart_s at 11:13 PM on January 27, 2005

There's Danny Gregory.
posted by hannala at 11:32 PM on January 27, 2005

graphpaper. flash and a bit sluggish. not so heavy on the illustration, but odd notes and things.
posted by juv3nal at 3:09 AM on January 28, 2005

Jeff Lewis, a singer/folk slinger in NYC, has a couple galleries up.. Not really a bound book, but a a couple hundred sketches.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 3:27 AM on January 28, 2005

Some of the most intriguing journals I've ever seen were done by Tracy Moore. I've bought some of her weird stamps and papers. It'll take quite a while to look at all of the journals (one was done by a friend), and they're mind-blowing. I also second atom128's sketchbooks - gorgeous. So fluid.
posted by iconomy at 4:20 AM on January 28, 2005

The 1000 Journals project isn't sketchbooks, strictly speaking. But I demand that you and everyone else check it out if you haven't yet. You won't be disappointed.
posted by drpynchon at 4:29 AM on January 28, 2005

This is a digital sketchbook where many people post their sketches. I learned many of my illustration skills from this board (although I must warn you, there is a lot of childish amatuer work there...it used to not be like that...but there was a newbie flood there and well, you know what usually happens after that).

A few gems can still be found there, see here, here, here and here
posted by Hands of Manos at 5:12 AM on January 28, 2005

Wow, some very nice work!
posted by lobstah at 5:21 AM on January 28, 2005

[These are nice.]
posted by safetyfork at 6:14 AM on January 28, 2005

thank you so much for that link to atom128.

the drawings are almost sculptural, with this great sense of proportion & balance.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:46 AM on January 28, 2005