A selection from almost 200 drawings I've made recently in an 8 1/2 x 11 sketchbook. I took the pictures with my phone as I made them, which accounts for the variation in lighting, contrast, background, etc.
Thank you. I have usually not taken my sketchbooks apart (to sell or for any other reason)--though, being spiral-bound, this one would presumably be easier to do so with. I do think I will publish them somewhere, at some point. I do use the ideas in the sketchbook in my larger, "gallery" art, but I also am increasingly thinking of the books themselves as art objects in their own right.
By the way, I began my recent bout of sketchbook-keeping in 2009, after drawing many sketches in copies of "Nautilus" and "Abstract Comics." I liked how those were turning out and wanted to keep exploring that style. So, if you want one of these drawings, try to get me to doodle a copy of one of those books for you... :)
"Andrei Molotiu's comics are absolute marvels: hotbeds of evolving ambiguity where one never knows what disturbing or witty interaction between abstraction of objects and objects of abstraction is about to take place. Each time I've opened them I've been utterly absorbed, that is, drawn into places where I had no power other than to become what I was looking at. What he does is superb." --Harry Mathews
"I love artists that break the rules and Andrei Molotiu breaks them all, with mind-bending and beautiful results." --Scott McCloud
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These are simply astounding. What do you do with them exactly? Are you compiling a book? Do you sell them?
Thank you. I have usually not taken my sketchbooks apart (to sell or for any other reason)--though, being spiral-bound, this one would presumably be easier to do so with. I do think I will publish them somewhere, at some point. I do use the ideas in the sketchbook in my larger, "gallery" art, but I also am increasingly thinking of the books themselves as art objects in their own right.
By the way, I began my recent bout of sketchbook-keeping in 2009, after drawing many sketches in copies of "Nautilus" and "Abstract Comics." I liked how those were turning out and wanted to keep exploring that style. So, if you want one of these drawings, try to get me to doodle a copy of one of those books for you... :)
Man! I just love these... like absolutely LURVE these!
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