Was listening to an old favourite of mine’s earlier, namely Duke by Genesis! And so I opted to recreate the album cover (one of their best in my opinion)
My role was to serve my people as a tactician.
My name was my rank. I had a soul.
But magic awakened within me, and my role changed.
My mind — trained and carved for purpouse — ceased to matter.
Reduced to a beast, they stripped away my soul and bound me in chains.
Is this the wisdom of the Qun?..
Filled in this sketchbook page with heavy black ink and dark blue marker strokes to make the orange and yellow glow pop. Drawn with technical pen and alcohol markers.
Ps first time i drew noggin from nick jr his debut art.
Ps this took me almost 1 month to do.
Started on aug 3 2026 same day as sketch noon.
Ended / finished on aug 27 at 11pm/12am.
Ps this drawing took me:
1 months 24 days
or 7 weeks 6 days
or 55 days
or 1,320 hours
or 79,200 minutes
or 4,752,000 seconds
Aka almost 2 months.
Ps this one more experimental work ehere fiest time i tried blsckish navy nlue lineart ever.
Ps this only first ime i drew noggin on 12$ paper he improve more i draw him.
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These were drawn on different days, in different places.
A salt shaker and sugar rack at Beans & Barley on Milwaukee’s East Side—a place that is gone now. A chair at Starbucks, which is still there.
When I go places, I wait.
Waiting is filled with observation.
Observation is recorded with marks.
Marks spark memory.
I can look at a few pencil lines years later and remember where I was.
Maybe that’s what a sketchbook really keeps. Not drawings of things, but evidence of moments.
For Doodle Addicts, I would use this rather than making Beans & Barley the whole story. The loss of Beans & Barley gives one sketch poignancy, but your larger idea is better: drawing converts otherwise disposable waiting into memory.
A quick observational sketch from the chess meet—boards, pieces, and the strange architecture of waiting. The chessmen seemed to be rehearsing before the players arrived.
