haikujaguar: The One Hundred Sketchbook Retrospective!

M. C. A. Hogarth (

haikujaguar) wrote,
@ 2008-04-22 11:17:00

Current mood:	hee
Current music:	something by Neil Diamond
Entry tags:	100 sketchbook retrospective, art

The One Hundred Sketchbook Retrospective!

I wanted to do something special for the second week of my "vacation" and was pondering a print sale when I realized I'd run into a truly celebration-worthy milestone: after fourteen years, I've closed the covers on my 99th sketchbook! For fourteen years I've been numbering any sketchbook over 8.5x11 (the smaller ones get letters, and I'm somewhere around "P" on those). These books have fed Stardancer's art archive for years. Yesterday I put the first pencil lines down on the second page of #100. That's over 9000 sketches... more if you count those tiny lettered books!

So instead of a boring generic print sale, I'm going to do a One Hundred Sketchbook Retrospective! I'm going to summarize the trends and best art of each "decade" of sketchbooks, and if I have pieces scanned from them I'll add links.

Now, it wouldn't be any fun without audience participation! So if you'd like to join the fun, for everyone person who donates, I'll scan an unscanned piece from each book, starting with Sketchbook #1. Paypal requires at least $1 donations, but I'll probably be moved by extra money to scan more pictures. *grin*

If this project turns out to be popular, I might make a B&W hard copy available also, so you can flip through the Best Of twelve years of my work, along with my commentary.

Look for the first post tomorrow!

(P.S. For the curious, I'm going to use this money to enroll the baby in the cultural center's "Baby Music" summer class. And if there's leftover... well, paint, baby food, and fencing dues for Mommy!)

Stardancer Home.

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	Yay! ysabetwordsmith 2008-04-22 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	This sounds like fun! I eagerly await the scanned pictures. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Yay! haikujaguar 2008-04-22 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	This will give arielstarshadow more art to comment on you. She's chewing up through the lower ranks of the Top 25 comment-leavers on her way up to second place, I think... though it will take some time for her to tumble you! :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Yay! arielstarshadow 2008-04-22 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	whistles innocently (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Yay! haikujaguar 2008-04-22 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	You are now at #17, with 59 comments! Your next target is aureth, with 67. To hit the top ten, you're going to have to get up over genet and akaihyo, who are tied at 129! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Yay! kulhain 2008-04-22 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	This is starting to sound gladiatorial. Call out the Myrmidons! -- Lost Dragon (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Yay! haikujaguar 2008-04-22 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	lol! Maybe I should publish the weekly stats somewhere. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Yay! arielstarshadow 2008-04-22 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	Grrrr.....my ninja-ness has been revealed! ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	marykate_gift 2008-04-22 05:01 pm UTC (link)
	smile I'm looking forward to seeing how your art has evolved from sketchbook to sketchbook! I'm sure it will be wonderful! :) marykate (Reply to this)(Thread)

	haikujaguar 2008-04-22 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, it's funny. I'm working on 1-10 now and... laugh Such huge eyes! :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	endlessland 2008-04-22 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	What a wonderful idea! I'm really excited to see it. I've been hoping to donate one of these times... but shipping something overseas nerfed my wallet. I'll be on the lookout for future sponsored projects. :) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	haikujaguar 2008-04-22 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	There will be more opportunities. :) What I'm thinking about these days is expanding my pool of viewers. Musing on thoughts how to do that. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

endlessland
2008-04-22 08:11 pm UTC (link)

Yay!

I'm not especially business-minded, so the only thing I could think of was internet advertising. I've noticed Keenspot/Comic Genesis (or whatever they're calling it these days) does very discreet but attractive advertising on the sites it hosts -- webcomics. The only thing I'm not sure of is if they allow advertising for non-Keenspot/CG websites. Possibly something to look into, though!

I wish more of us could bring you viewers from our blogs. :) But I'm one of those "two readers total" people, so no dice there.

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	shockwave77598 2008-04-22 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	tips the artist. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	haikujaguar 2008-04-22 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	bows (Reply to this)(Parent)

	allykat 2008-04-22 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	$5 from an Ally! That's great- I wish I had kept coherent sketchbooks like that. I guess it's never too late to start! How cool would it be in 5 years time to flip through them. Edited at 2008-04-22 07:33 pm UTC (Reply to this)(Thread)

	haikujaguar 2008-04-22 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	tries to think Well, I was in college when I started keeping them, so... it's never too late to start. :) I was thinking of you while scanning these! I think you will find them interesting. (Reply to this)(Parent)

marykate_gift
2008-04-29 04:08 pm UTC (link)

I left this message on the sketchbook site, but I thought I would leave it here as well... have you ever considered putting together a coloring book? Perhaps with a children's story around your art work? I would buy 2 in a heartbeat. 1) I love to color (especially as I need a ruler to draw a stick figure, it's my way of enjoying art) and 2) My little goddaughter would LOVE LOVE LOVE it... anyhow... would you ever consider something like that?

marykate

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