Found Sketchbook

The found sketchbook project is where I had to experiment with sketching in a a discarded book already filled with text and pictures. The smooth pages were not meant or illustrations and paint, and this challenge helped me break through my usual conventions and really have some fun. Each page was filled with different mediums, subject matters, and everything in between. Across the book I used Microns, Paint Pens, Alcohol Markers, Ink, ballpoint pens, and White out.

Highlights!

Here are some of my favorite pages from the Sketchbook!

I've got this multi-media poster of Alejandra Villarreal , the bass player from the band ‘The Warning’. This is illustrated in blue color pencil on drawing paper, cut out and glued into the found sketchbook. The red and black background was acrylic paint rolled out onto the sketchbook pages with an roller!

The next page featured and ink sketch of my walk to work when I worked at the Pratt Library, done in Ink brush colored in with colored pencil and blue water color! The following page is an Alien in an MTA jersey with a Mtn Dew bottle wrapper pasted in behind him. These collage experiments really influenced where I would take my poster and design work the following summer!

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