From the Desk of George Rex
A blog for my silly thinkings, ponderings, musing and other miscellaneous “-ings”.
A illustration of a friendly mouse wearing colourful knitted clothes a satchel, glasses and red boots.
Please enjoy this little sketchbook mouse I enjoyed drawing whilst in the middle of some intense book work a few months ago. I love using my sketchbook to create characters without thinking too hard about them. I generally don’t pencil anything (like with this drawing) and find colouring and layering with copic markers incredibly meditative.
Looking forward to more sketchbook time soon I hope!
I hope you liked this week's post! I ended up buying the fancy Moleskine - in fact I drew this comic in it! What are your favourite ways to get your ideas down? Do you prefer sketchbooks or individual sheets of paper or digital? What's your favourite sketchbook to use?
Have a lovely rest of the week if you can!
Gx
You may have noticed that in the past few posts I've been writing about going through a bit of a flat patch or, if you want to go all '50s horror movie on the idea, 'The Slump!'
So with The Slump hanging over my head -- or more specifically in my head -- I thought it was time to get my thoughts out onto paper. I grabbed a book I've been using to keep track of thoughts and things to talk about with my mentor Pat and started writing what I'd been feeling. BUT THEN I COULDN'T STOP. It just kept coming out. Because this was originally just going to be something that I would send to Pat and not share online, I didn't pencil anything or even plan what I was going to write. Sometimes I think I managed to pull it off and then some pages maybe not so much. Anyway, here it is, in all its glory.
Halfway through writing these thoughts I kinda wanted to stop. I wasn't really sure where they were going and not knowing when the comic would finish made me start feeling flat. But I pushed through with a few pitstops to breathe and think about what I was writing and once I'd finished (despite it not being the best thing I've ever drawn or written) I was so glad to have done it.
Even though I would say the process of making something is maybe sometimes more important than the final product, it sure feels good to hold a finished thing in your hands. Even if the very next day you think it's terrible.
Hope you guys are doing well. Can't wait to write you again real soon!
Gxx
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough be able to attend an Enterprise Bootcamp. It was teaching me all about how to market myself as an artist and how to produce work and be professional at design markets. Interesting stuff and being the nerd I am I kept some notes. I thought that you guys might be interested in reading them. So here they are.
Please excuse all the spelling mistakes.
That's it for this week. Short and sweet. Promise to write soon. xx