Sketchbook 2017 – Richd Wolff

Sketchbook 2017

This book still exists in my library. It’s a response to Inktober of that year, a 31-day challenge on Instagram for artists of pen-and-ink. It was too late to begin when the Inktoberists did, but I didn’t mind. I did all these with Faber-Castell’s Pitt artist pens, in black and sanguine.

At first, I just wanted to exercise my hand, but eventually I got into the habit of concocting interesting and snarky ideas regularly. I don’t think I was ever locked in to a daily entry, but I reached it at times, and kept it going beyond 31 days, until I filled the book.

I stopped, mostly because it was taking me in a direction I didn’t want to go.

(These are photos taken with various cameras, and I variously prioritized deleting the background and/or the clamps that held the book open. Sorry.)

Caterpillar Doing Taxes

Either his own, or yours.

George Foreman Grill

Paper Core Fencing

For a modern audience.

That's a rough ruff.

Argyle Dirigible

I did a series of these in 3x3, bas relief.

Hollywood Squares

I still don't get it.

Insufficient elbow room.

Tim Conway Elephants

Haven't we all seen that?

Stuff of Dreams

Back when I'd only get them in bed.

How do they translate his babbling into Swedish?

And it was slain.

Trumpist Lobotomy

Tame by comparison.

Business Flywheel

Why is it always like that?

Not Walter White.

Parachuting predicted.

Leda and the Swan

A modern retelling.

Something ice cream trucks should try.

I got it I got it

Carry That Weight

Things were kind of heavy.

I based my 2022 Holiday Gift on this.

Manbun Pineapple

Warrants future exploration.

Symmetry Abstract 3

Market Harborough

Before I tasted it!

Someone try this.

Shortly after he died. I have his book.

Sandwich Accelerator

Slogan Free Lawn

For when you're REALLY scared of your neighbors.

Blue Playground

Twilight at a nearby playground.

Sergeant Mountain

Your guess is as good as mine.

A gathering of my fans

Still a good idea!

Charlie Sheen had done something gossipworthy.

Still a good idea.

get Back to Work

Early self-nagging.

When you want to venture beyond the man.

Time Is Running Out

What if they were in a movie together, and got equal billing?

slippery toadstool

Pretty skimpy sandwich.

Perpetualicious!

Symmetry Abstract 4

Shout it from the heavens.

From my Snail Week.

Turret Telescope

Playing with things on my desk.

shoestringhouse

I don't remember dreaming this.

Done years later; not in the book.

Like Flintstones. Only not.

Sllllllliding home..

I wanted to do something you could punch out of a sheet of tin.

Boy, was this prescient.

Monarch Butterfly

Clysdale Maggots

Mmm, makin' me thirsty.

Toward the end.

From my Snail Week.

Marc Antony? I dunno

This needs to be made into a woodcut!

I have since found out, yes, they do now.

Profound, I thought.

Artisanal Toothpick

To your specifications.

A kitten cuter than this sketch.

Toleration Sign

A less spicy variation is elsewhere.

Someone was offering this as a contest prize.

From personal experience.

All the way down.

Magellan's Watch Fob

Catholic Converter

Exeter Half-Timber

From a photograph.

Panda & Penguin Chess

This was a challenge from my brother.

But why a beer? I forget.

Appointment with Destiny

It's the one they use on all those countryfied wall nicnacs.

Main Line Doctor Office

A varied clientele.

Lent itself to the colors on hand.

It seemed like it was everywhere.

tweedle dum ski jumping

Symmetry Abstract 2

It's the least you can do.

Turret TV Camera

I used to draw cameras when I was little. Sandy Becker was always showing them.

Turret Microscope

Playing with things on my desk.

Pray for victory.

Universe in a Lightbulb

An infographic of sorts.

From my "in-faux-mercial" series.

A multitool on my desk.

What I was back from, I forget.

Insurance Adjuster

Armstrong Video

A personal memory. Might make a good woodcut.

Bowling Green Massacre

Who could forget?

Streaking Snail

Sometimes time seems to go that way.

Alex Jones Chest Tattoo

I just heard of Alex Jones, and thought he was hilarious.

The year they were tearing down monuments.

I kind of knew that wasn't it.

Flamingo Repair

For your broken flamingos.

At least I think that's what they are.

We have a Tigger from Denise's childhood.

An invention idea.

Handsy Victorians

Current Events Rebus

suburban lawns-1

Face That Launched

A thousand ships.

You can imagine what was on the news at the time.

Some valid questions.

My first card in what was to be a funny tarot deck.

Extreme Vesting

Nativity Reunion Show

Too damn many of these things.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Knights of the Occasional Table

I thought I was on to something with this. A novel technique.

Chocolate Orange

Ever have one of these?

New Diamond Cuts

sboverinflation

One of my favorites.

Giraffe Necktie

Proof that I came up with this first!

How would I look as William Penn?

Aging Fine Artist

My philosophy as I make this transition.

Probably copied from somewhere.

Darth Vader Ginsberg

Inspiration Keg

Father Seahorse

Who would do his voice?

Scleraderma Fairy

Sprinkles her dust on my wife sometimes.

Methane Molecule

The least cuddly thing I could imagine.

Coffee Table of Books

Remember iPods?

I had the idea to do a bunch of 3x3 art based on my holiday gifts.

Symmetry Abstract 1

I did develop this into a linocut.

Joe BIden? I dunno

For the long draw.

Guess what I was listening to that day.

Darvon and Gelato at Niagara

If you know, you know.

Twenty Seventeen

Excuse the occasional red clip.

Teddys all the way down.

Try boiling it.

Symmetry Abstract 5

Thus was the dulcimer invented.

Steve Madden Shoe

Still have them. Comfy.

Acoustic Nirvana

Accompanying the fiddlehead crab.

Still a good idea.