Personal Sketches: Contemporary Drawings

Diary sketches and ideas from personal sketchbooks.


Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Idea for painting (from moleskin sketchbook). Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Random ink drawing on manila paper. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Digital drawing. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Me as a super hero. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Mixed media idea for book cover. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from Inside/Ouside book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - sketch for the painting Forgive. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Old drawing. It's true. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing I did in Joshua Tree. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Dan's hot dog stand. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - a little character I made up. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - a drawing on the inside of a Today's Quandary book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - These are a few of the people I hate (not really). Ayin Es Personal Sketches - a drawing on the inside of a Today's Quandary book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from Sweetnsour Pie book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Dan in the rain. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - a sketch for a painting called Drum Lab Ayin Es Personal Sketches - This comes from HORSEBUCKET Ayin Es Personal Sketches - test drawing for the movie Up to Now. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - A little drawing of a nice-sounding piano. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - drawing for a watercolor of the same name. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing I did in Joshua Tree. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Commission for a small record company. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Mars, a marsupial character I made up. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my bedside sketchbook. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from the Journal Project. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing for the Up to Now movie Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing of Joshua Tree from Inside/Outside book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Idea drawings from my bedside sketchbook.> Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from Sweetnsour Pie book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my bedside sketchbook. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my studio sketchbook. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from Sweetnsour Pie book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from Sweetnsour Pie book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from Sweetnsour Pie book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Preliminary drawing for the painting - I Waited for You. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my memoir book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Preliminary drawing for the painting - On the Ends of Ropes. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from the Sweetnsour Pie book, also used in a painting call Eve's Dilemma, and my tattoo design. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing/collage for a visual, collaorative blog. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing/collage for a visual, collaorative blog. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Something funny for an art blog exchange. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - a sample drawing of my style of portraiture. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - What on earth is going on in the drawing?! Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing I did in Joshua Tree. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Sometimes I like to draw funny animals. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my bedside sketchbook. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Preliminary drawing for the painting - Everybodys Grandma. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Post-it drawing. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Another sketch (the centerfold) for Scribbles in a Sandstorm. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Everyone loves Whom-Baloon. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - This was the skeleton sketch for an etching. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my memoir book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my memoir book Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my memoir book. Ayin Es Personal Sketches - Drawing from my memoir book.

I keep a few different sketchbooks and am pretty loyal to this practice. Each of them have a specific purpose. Some are more important than others, especially the ones where I record both images and words. This teaches me how to become objective about my own work and keeps me tapped into my raw feelings. With these, I try to use a Fisher Space Pen and never erase.

I also have a bedside moleskin sketchbook. I take it with me everywhere I go. The space pen allows me to write upside down while I'm in bed to record my weird, dreamy ideas that don't make much sense. This book is a bit more free for ideas or for anything creative in general: characters, funny animals, to-do lists, notes, or just whatever.

I keep two other "sketchbooks," which are not on regular upkeep. Sometimes I'll just use loose paper or scraps, like post-its, envelopes. or cards. And then there's my faithful Journal Project that's ongoing, spontaneous, and forever.