The ‘skine in skineart.com is short for “moleskine”. For the uninitiated, a moleskine is a wonderful little sketchbook that comes in various sizes, papers, and bindings. They are kind of pretentious. Those of us who love them feel they justify the pretentiousness. In the same way that finding a pen that always does what you want it to, moleskine’s just work.
Skineart.com is a blog that accepts submissions from ANYONE who has done anything from a doodle to a grand work of art in a moleskine, an approximation of a moleskine, is willing to lie about the sketchbook they are using really being a moleskine, or is honest enough to admit they don’t own a moleskine and just want to show off some sketch.
Because of this, there is a log of less-than-inspiring stuff to wade through in order to get to the gems. With that in mind, I’ve been starring the drawings that I love for one reason or another for years now anticipating that I would one day start a series of “best of” posts. That day has finally come. I’m starting chronologically from the oldest in hopes that I can weed out things as I don’t remember why I liked them.
Farmer’s Market by Susan Rudat
A Poltergeist with far too Much Dandruff by Angie H. Iver
Sketch of an Image by Sean Foreman
Moleskine Exchange Entry by Josh Burggraf
Custer and Sitting Bull by Alexandra Beguez
The Snail Princess by Rin Ascher
So that’s the first installment. I’ve got pages of these things to wade through, so expect more in the future.
I just saw Moleskine makes pencils now too! These look neat: http://www.moleskineus.com/pmowc9690-moleskine-wood-pencils.html
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