I’ve spent the last 6 months working in this sketchbook.

Scribbling my last page of character designs, story notes, and testing out new drawing tools felt surreal, since I’m still very much in the thick of everything happening on these pages.

It’s a conversation I haven’t finished, though the pages they occupy have been filled.

It’s fascinating to me that each sketchbook ends up with its own personality, as it represents a different time in my life—different interests, different challenges, projects, ideas. Of course it can’t be any other way, but I’m fascinated by it all the same.

I’ve thought about documenting a single idea via blog posts or videos to see what becomes of it—a study of the thing as it unfolds in real-time.

But ideas are peculiar.

A single idea can become many, many things—sometimes very quickly—and each of those things can become many other things. Sometimes, ideas seem to fizzle at inception. Ideas depend on how receptive we are to them at a given time, and how much attention we give them at other times and in relation to other concerns.

While I still think it would be fascinating to explore the documentation of such a phenomena, I suppose my sketchbook itself is the closest thing I have to recording the paths my mind and hands have crossed over the last 6 months.

In any case, there are many projects in the works and I’m anxious to see them all through and to share them with you. Thank you for choosing to stay involved with me and my doodles here.

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