moleskine

This is part of an ongoing series.

Was just hanging out with my wife and son in the living room last night and this spilled into my Moleskine.

2023, Ballpoint pens on 5” x 8” acid free Moleskine sketchbook paper, Adobe Photoshop colour correction. I was doing pre-purchase research before deciding on a set of noise cancelling earbuds when I landed on the Google Pixel Buds Pro website and found an interesting model in an interesting pose.

Meadhbh wearing a red striped tube dress. 2022, Ballpoint pens on 5" x 8" Moleskine acid free sketchbook paper. Model: Meadhbh

Posca markers and Moleskine sketchbook

Drawing is always fun because you get to put things together, even when they don’t belong with one another in reality ^______^…

Double sketchbook page using Posca pens and a Moleskine sketchbook.

Wild Roses in varying stages of life. Graphite in pocketbook sized Moleskine

Welcome to Bike Burg, where whimsy is the way and everyone is welcome!

Moleskine

mixed media, 2015

I went a little nuts with a moleskine doodle

We continue the #inktober environmental issues series with the #day19 word: #scorched and for this word I tried to illustrate the Urban Heat Island effect. This takes place in metropolitan areas that are warmer than the rural areas surrounding them. The main cause of the UHI effect is the alteration of land surfaces (concrete and asphalt). Heat waste produced by people and their tools (like vehicles and industry) is another cause and also the decreased amount of vegetation. UHIs often have lower air and water quality that have a negative effect on the environment of these areas. It is also considered to be a possible contribution to global warming. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

#Swollen is the word for #inktober #day17. Because the city I live in is swollen from cars, buildings, humans, rats, pigeons, dirt and trash I considered the word to be proper for the problem of urbanization. Even if it's a natural transformation, it comes with a lot of issues. I see it as a concrete and steel monster eating the nature that stands in its way. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

Acrylic on Moleskine sketchbook paper - hardback book

Acrylic on Moleskine sketchbook

More monster madness from my Moleskine sketch book

A completed page of mass monsters from my Moleskine sketchbook

Bring out the Sun Moleskine Doodle - March 2014 It seemed as if the dark that year would never end, and by March we saw a glimmer, it was such a relief. Bit like how we feel now.

Moleskine Doodle for October 2016

Page from Moleskine, used inks and water which made the page buckle.

Moleskine Sketchbook

T E X T U R E

I started this with the Doodle Addicts Pre/post quarantine diptych drawing challenge in mind, but I didn't make the deadline (I started it on the day of the deadline, so it was a little ambitious!). The first half of the drawing represents before the corona virus and the second half is after the virus and kind of living with it. No pencil, just straight into the drawing with ink. It's rough, but I like how it turned out and there are some fun characters.

This was done on a heavy day. On days like this, I like to doodle whatever is inside my head to lighten things up. My therapy. Almost everything in here means something.

I have quite a bit of traveling planned this Summer...from NYC to Copenhagen to Venice to Berlin and a few more spots. Very much looking forward to all the different colors, cities, and cultures in the coming weeks.

Ok maybe a couple of mornings.

I'm going to try to remember Throw Back Thursday. It's fun for me to go back and try to remember what was going on in my mind that made me doodle what I doodled on that day.