April 2025

DIY Sketchbook

I recently bought some new sketchbooks. The books arrived with a load of packing paper all crumpled up and I thought it would be fun to scrap together one more sketchbook from the packaging itself. I cut and bound the paper into a book and capped it off with a nice hard cover from the cardboard box it all came in. I’m pretty happy with the result. A toast to more gesture drawing and human creativity.

Gesture Drawings

As part of my going through Joumana Medlej’s Human Anatomy Fundamentals course, I’ve been doing daily gesture drawings from movies/shows for a few weeks. I’ve been getting some wonderfully distinct characters and expressive acting and posing from Buster Keaton and the Beverly Hillbillies. They both have a lot of full-body shots (or nearly full-body).

Here’s a selection of my favourite quick sketches from 100+ pages of gestures.