books

A few of my sketchbooks, combing through some older concepts.

It’s like drawing your own coloring page... Though I do realize there are thousands and thousands of books out there that have already have the drawings completed..

"The facts existed, or they didn't, whether or not I paid attention to them". From "Tacky Goblin" by T. Sean Steele #dailydrawing #dailyreading #sabinareads #tackygoblin #tseansteele #facts https://instagram.com/p/B2O0c53BwE1/

2” x 4” acrylic

observar y buscar

This is my Favourite Book Shop in the north east of England.

Here's one of my older sketchbooks. Started in the snowy mountains of Austria.

Some of my sketchbooks from a new workshop I'm conducting at the Riverside Art Museum.

gouache and watercolor on arches paper.

my favorite from the sketchbooks

Random doodle. This one looks like Princess Donut from Dungeon Crawler Carl. This book is the Venn diagram of the books that all of us loved. Super fun.

A motif I having been enjoying in my sketchbooks lately but this time experimenting with positive and negative space. Watercolor and Posca pen in 8.25x11.75 Moleskine sketchbook.

Ink painting on an old Latin-Dutch dictionary page.

Graphite drawing inspired by a photo of a shop in Venice, but with my own cats.

This is another way of working that I really like. Fine liners and chalk (colour) pencils were predominantly used, with a quick smothering of acrylics for her scarf and coarse posca pen marks for the jumper :). About the subject, Handmaid's Tale was one of those rare books that I read more than once growing up and it stayed with me, hence why I decided to draw Margaret Atwood (not seen the series yet though but I hear good things!). I accidentally had her hand cut out while penning the figure - still working on my scale and composition!

This is my first upload. I did a quick sketch of Gale and Katniss from the Hunger Games,. I have been doing sketches of passages from books lately and this is one. This is the scene on the day of the reaping. Gale and she are in the woods. Gale is spreading goat cheese and she Katniss is picking berries.

Watering scene, hand-drawn illustration

He's weak, you see. It's getting harder and harder.

Monsters sketches for a personal project about coloring books.

I feel like my drawings got a lot more dimensional and interesting once I was able to achieve variable line width. I love loading different colors into the pen and going HAM on paper that totally can't handle it. My sketchbooks crackle when I turn the pages. They buckle and heave and are exhausted from their tribulations.

The bookshelf in my studio...

Sharks go cycling!

Goblins in the library?

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” - Arthur C. Clarke.

Still reflecting on the weekend prior here…

As it says on the tin!

Memories of a book festival, part one!

Is that summer already?

A line taken from the current book I’m digesting… Finally reading the My Neighbor Totoro book my girlfriend got me for my birthday. Slowly getting through but enjoying it immensely!