texture… the word came from listening to radiohead’s amnesiac yesterday. short guitar riffs, layered beats, everything about texture. woke up this morning and it went straight into the sketchbook. abstract shapes on the left, pure line exploration on the right. no figures this time, just the feel of it.

brute figures… this idea keeps pulling me back…

i love how this brush pen gives me constrained freedom… i have many notebooks full of this style. i love it for a few reasons; meditative process, the satisfaction gained from discovering the pen’s limits and capabilities…

first time with oil pastels… a beautiful set, gift from my wife. i always had this idea of blunt/brute characters, raw, big and bulky and suddenly caught by you while doing something not so interesting things, mundane activities and staring at you, the spectator…

i did some other sketches for the idea here and there, way back, like 5-6 years ago…

this idea keeps coming back and i like it… and having these, many of these on the walls excites me a lot…

What a year it was, 2024… For sure a year to remember…

With all the things that happened, it was one of the most creatively productive years of my life… Completed ~10 various size sketchbooks… I can see it coming again… Sketches, music, guitar, writing, code, …