For new readers, I’ve been pushing my sketchbooking, trying to fill out random outline shapes and make some sense of them. Check ‘Doodle Challenge’ in the category index for older posts.

Oh yes, and I’m fiddling with the post formating. We’ll see what shows up on the page

Well, wouldn’t you??

A note to those who are keeping track: Most of the recent sketchbook dailies were made in 5½”x8″ Moleskine replicas, but with this one I have started clipping from a 5″ square one that I found to be easier to handle on the train.

Since I am fitting all scanned images to the same height, the drawings are proportionally enlarged in comparison to the ones from the bigger books. Gives you clear (and probably unwelcome) insight into the poor state of my felt-tips

There’s another of the fake Moleskines waiting to be scanned (first images will be online around mid-november), and after that we’ll get to the one I work in now, a nice and big A4 cloth-bound I happened upon. But we may be well into the new year before that sees the web.

And so I kick off another round of daily sketches with another outline/doodle challenge.

He might have trouble tying his shoes, too.

Translation: “I refuse!” or “I don’t wanna!”

This challenge thing I came up with is a farce sometimes. At first I did it to fget away from accustomed ways of drawing; make an outline without thinking, there’s your starting point.

After awhile I noticed a certain similarities in the blobs I’d draw, and to get away from that, I tried to swipe silhouettes from my surroundings. The above sketch began life as a quick sketch of a pine tree.

From the Doodle Challenge category.