sketchbook tour #2

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 hello friends!

im gonna do a sketchbook tour of this one I started back in may....
(featuring a sticker someone kindly gave me at a Chappell roan concert)
starting off strong with gir and the dog I learned to draw in 5th grade. also some plein air on the river 😻
I drew a several-page comic but never finished it! 
here's a spread I liked from this sketchbook: 
(I got some paint pens and they make quite a few appearances in this sketchbook!)
a lot of this sketchbook is me painting over stuff, drawing more, then painting over that 
it gets a little weird/abstract/hard to figure out what's going on in a lot of it 
lately ive really liked building off of existing art in my sketchbook. blank pages are scary!! 
for example, this ↑ page was me practicing drawing in like a vintage micky mouse ish style then I painted over it and did some figure drawing practice in gouache over it. there's also a fish for some rzn?
that being said, there's some pretty normal looking art in here too. say hi to cambria!! a character from my graphic novel ive been planning for many years
some more OC art
this page is one im really happy with, mostly because of the process (ive been trying to focus on art being more of an Activity I do that I enjoy, rather than a way of making a Finished Product that Looks Good)
the process for this page was doing a little marker and ink drawing (which I dont have any pics of, I wish I documented the process for this one), then I had my wonderful studio assistant (my partner) mod podge over the entire page. after it dried, I used my acrylic paint pens to finish the page by just throwing random colors everywhere 
something about that.
I have been using paint pens on the drawing paper and the mixed media paper I have in my sketchbooks and I thought that was How you were Supposed to use them.
and I think it worked out pretty nicely! I love this drawing ↑
BUT I started drawing on a cardboard box for gits and shiggles and it was so much ? easier ???? 
I realized the paper was absorbing the paint So much and drawing on something like cardboard worked a lot better and felt smoother. so I experimented a little bit with mediums (mod podge, heavy body acrylic paint, and matte medium) and figured out that you can paint mod podge on top of an existing drawing and then use paint pens much easier on top of it. so im gonna be doing that a bunch because its fun!!! 
the heavy body acrylic and the matte medium worked too, but I liked the mod podge best. the acrylic was like, too shiny, and the medium wasn't shiny enough.
I love this technique because the paint pens are sooo fun on shiny surfaces but I like my mixed media/drawing paper for marker, watercolor, ink, and oil pastel. so now I can do both 😎 

anyway.
sorry for not posting here in a Minute ! it has been crazy (new job, election, etc) 
thank you so much for reading !!!! c u next time. 
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