Now I have started Moleskine #7 (or the third trilogy, perhaps) I thought I’d show you the first six. They’ve travelled everywhere with me, and are fun to look at and chart my development as a sketcher.
You can see the contents of each in the following Flickr sets:
Moleskine 1 (June-Oct 2007)
Moleskine 2 (Nov 2007-July 2008)
Moleskine 3 (July 2008-Feb 2009)
Moleskine 4 (Feb-Oct 2009)
Moleskine 5 (Nov 2009-June 2010)
Moleskine 6 (July-Dec 2010)
petescully 
They look great: have you ever done a video clip of you sketching? I’d love to see how you approach these complex scenes and break them down: do you ‘rough’ them out? In pencil? Or straight with ink? etc..
cheers Rowland; I’ve meant to do a sketching video (been asked to before a few times) but haven’t had the time. Usually I use a little H2 pencil to mark out perspective and some composition but mostly it’s straight with pen. I should use thumbnails more cos that always helps a lot but rarely do, for some reason. I add colour on site usually, but if short on time I’ll do it later at home. Best to do it on site though as the colours are more natural.
A really good ‘how i sketch’ demo is from martha at trumpetvine travels, this was very useful to me: http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/20/sketching_demo/
Wowzer Pete!!!! What an accomplishment! Love seeing them all unfolded in one shot.
cheers! i tried to have a different city spread in each one too…
Top pic (going down in columns): 1. Davis, 2. London, 3. New York, 4. San Francisco, 5. Davis, 6. Portland
Bottom pic: 1. Berkeley, 2. Sacramento, 3. Hitchin/Davis, 4. San Francisco, 5. London, 6. Portland
I couldn’t help but laugh at your title. I imagine you’re a fellow Dexter fan…
yep!
Wow! They are fantastic, Pete! Amazing collection of work put together! I have just completed a sketchbook of portraits for the Art House, and so know very well what it takes to finish a sketchbook. But I can’t imagine yet what it takes to finish six. I am majorly impressed with the quality and quantity of work.
Thanks Alex! I’ve been steadily filling some other sketchbooks as well but these all look the same on the outside…
Pete, as usual, Wow! You have my admiration. I have been through the collection and I must say I’ve never seen anything like it before. What a wonderful Heirloom for your kids and their grandchildren, etc. One of them would very proudly keep saying, “See what my great grandfather painted, wasn’t he great!”
Thanks Dennis!
It’s the first time I comment but I’ve been loving your drawings for a lot of time… You’re such an inspiration for me. Not only you’ve been constant, which is a quality I will never have, but you’re amazingly talented too. I would love to draw like you, but I’m not so good unfortunately, I have to practise a lot!
And your Moleskine have so many stories inside, I guess it will be moving to look back at them in the future.
Thank you for sharing your work!
Marta from Italy
Thank you Marta for your very nice comment! Keeping sketchbooks is a good way to practise and it is like a story afterwards, that’s why I much prefer sketchbooks to single pieces.