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INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #42: JOURNAL.

“I don’t know if I successfully conveyed ‘leather’ here, but that was the goal. I love a good leather-bound book or journal, especially if it’s been ‘tooled’ and has designs or art cut, stamped, or otherwise worked into it. It’s an impressive skill, one that I’d love to make time to work on someday. In addition to leather sketching journals, I’ve always thought it would be cool to make highly detailed leather armor with all kinds of relief designs and scales and images and stuff. Something that could have jumped right out of a high fantasy story. You know, just to wear around out in public, like one does.
Anywhat, I always carry a little pocket-sized moleskin journal with me, but I don’t use it as much as I ought to. Back in the day when I would spend a week in the woods for summer camp every year with my kids, it was a fun way to pass some downtime. Because of the way my Brain associates the lines I make with whatever is happening around me in the moment (I can recall conversations, songs, or dialogue from shows when I go over my pencil lines with ink), it’s a neat way to conjure up those memories. Outside of camping, life has always been a little too distracting since becoming a parent to even think about sitting and sketching for the heck of it when I’m not ‘working’ in my studio. Now that my kids are older, I should change that.”

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