MOONBURN
SKETCHBOOK no. 58
Worked on July 5th, 2020 – November 12th, 2020
Welcome to my sketchbook blog! This is where I hope to post galleries from my sketchbooks as I complete them, and maybe even go back and add old ones. I’m an avid sketchbook-er and love trying different brands of varying sizes and styles to keep it interesting and HERE is where I will talk about them and share how I use them.
The first thing I do when I get a new sketch book is name and number it, and this is the 58th book I’ve completed since I started numbering my sketchbooks in college. This is a smallish Moleskine Sketchbook, 4.5” x 7”, hardbound with nice enough paper that I could draw on both sides. I used to love Moleskine’s when I first heard about them, but haven’t used one in years and years until I picked this one up. I really liked it! As you can tell flipping through these images, I pretty much stuck to one pen for this whole book because it is one of my favorites and felt VERY good to use on this paper: the Platinum Carbon Desk Pen, which actually seems pretty hard to find nowadays?
About halfway through this book I ordered an entry level fountain pen (a Pilot Metropolitan ) and that sparked my current obsession with them, which you will see when I finish my current sketchbook… As for the content of Moonburn, I was months deep in quarantine and flipping through you can tell that most of the faces you see are drawn from work related video chats, my only form of socialization.
Overall, I really enjoyed this sketchbook. It was a good size, and it had been a while since I used a ‘premium’ book like this, and reveled in it’s quality! The paper was so nice and it really inspired me to fill it up quickly with tons of tiny lines. OH, also, I found that old driver’s license on the sidewalk and taped it in my book. Isn’t that cool?! It’s so old. Moonburn is dedicated to Carmen Wong, I hope she’s thriving.