Photo of an open A5 sketchbook spread containing, from left to right, bust drawings of a masculine, living statue, Claus leSable, viewed from several angles and design sketches of an anthropomorphic couple, HB the Snail and Basic the Bear. The statue character has a face like a Moai attached to a large muscular frame and the left page is filled with test drawings with annotations. The page with the couple mostly focuses on the larger Basic the Bear, with his girlfriend HB shown to establish his tall stature and wide body. This page showcases Basic from angles the artist was struggling with, including worm's eye view head shots and several attempts at a profile view.
Photo of an open pocket sketchbook filled with studies of Basic the Bear's face and skull. Basic's head and neck form a simple sausage shape with interruptions from his snout, ears and angular sideburn tufts depending on how he's positioned in a scene, and the artist has attempted to understand what underlying structure would consistently yield this result.
Photo of a pocket sketchbook open to a spread of sketches of the artist's NSFW mascot, Claus leSable. leSable is a living statue with a Moai style head and is depicted nude but featureless on these pages. These page focus on tilting the character's neck and minor reclined actions.
Several sketches of a nude anthropomorphic bear named Basic, with half a page of annotated busts in blue and black pencil. The sketches constitute a character study, with most attempts rejected in scribbled annotations.
Keeping several sizes of sketchbook helps with concentration while traveling. The usual collection consists of two pocket sketchbooks, two A5s and an A4 book, but recently added B5s in the rotation. SFW & NSFW are separated, hence the number of books.
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11.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of an artist's sketchbook held open to its first spread with a transparent blue clip. Both pages are filled with light sketches of this artist's mascot, a living, muscular statue, Claus leSable. The left page focuses on the character's face from various angles, with annotations to note which sketches capture the character's likeness best. The right page focuses on the character's stature, with several inset ink drawings of the character's face. Claus's face resembles a Moai with a neutral expression and eyes always under a cast shadow.
Photograph of the artist's sketchbook, open to a page filled with rows of bust drawings. There are two characters depicted; a round-headed anthropomorphic Cactus woman, Prickle, and a chubby faced lesser demon, Persimmon. The two characters are facing the viewer but looking over their right shoulder in most of the sketches. This sketchbook page works to establish the layout of decorations on both characters' heads - Prickle has a roughly spherical head lined on its side planes with three large spikes and a large flower forming a ponytail-like shape at the back. She has a big, round circle for a nose, like a Koala. Persimmon has messy tufts of hair at the top of an otherwise pointy and bald looking head, with a set of horns fused onto a single ring connecting both of his temples.
Photograph of an artist's sketchbook focused on one character, Persimmon the lesser demon. He is nude on this page, with one arm at his side and one outstretched at the shoulder, both hands semi-prone like an anatomy model. He has a bell shaped head with features small and centered on his face. His beard and goatee are connected and angular, but are missing a mustache. He is otherwise short, squat and hairy, with a set of horns extending from his temples and merging together at the back to form a ring behind his head, framed by enormous pointed demonic ears. One sketch compares the formation of his horns to the silhouette of a receding hairline. All sketches are annotated with the artist's notes on what needs to be emphasized on this character.
Photograph of another page in an artist's sketchbook, mostly focused on constructing a character Prickle's face and body. She is shown nude from a profile and front view, with annotations and instructions on how to attach her cartoonish elliptical head to her body and facial decorations. Prickle has large, half-lidded eyes with a nose of the same length between them and a row of six spikes attached to her head on the side planes. She has a big flower growing out of the top rear of her skull that forms a puffy ponytail shape, and her head is attached with a long, slender neck. There is an inset sketch of a human version of the character with an annotation conceptualizing her as having an aquiline nose.
Have been away from digital art for a while, to focus on becoming comfortable thinking visually again. Sketch pages tend to be drawn with H4-6 pencils or whatever is handy, so they are difficult to properly photograph.
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11.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
