The Red Sketchbook

Posted 2014/10/19 by Sterling

Lots of interesting drawings in this one. This sketchbook is dated 2006-2007. It documents my move from the US to Canada, the start of my professional career and the final days of my bachelor life. It was the sketchbook I carried while working on Space Chimps, and when I started developing my Dragon project, Wakefield also begins to surface in its pages. This book travelled with me to California, British Columbia, Costa Rica, Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Lots and lot of random drawings in here. Have fun exploring.

red sketchbook cover — Front Cover

red fabric gold bird sketchbook — The back cover

breast — Inside cover or bust

inside cover — a bit nipply out today

page — ink farm

feather — Quill

hair — feather hair

pink lines — impression

faint man — leaves

dark — woman

negative drawing — head space

smudge — mirrored black

tree nude — backstage

text, writing dick and don — old story

cartoons — dick and don

watch — hands

death is watching — ape claw

me in a nice hat — spliff

birds — sparrows

ocean surf — square surfer

rack — vote

people — take a stand

basket detail — wicker dream house

paddling out into the surf cartoon — surfing at El Porto

dirt bike mountain — mountain bikes

crab on the beach — riding the wave

alien space chimp — early Space Chimps King

bikini — Girl on the beach

back of the truck — by the beach

white shark surfer — Waiting for sharks

creatures — aliens

lots of aliens — alien drawings

Red Sketchbook — blood cubed

Red Sketchbook — stacked rocks

Asian kids — Han, the street sweeper

feet — phe phe

kid — pour boy

ocean view — under the wave

beard — desert flower

drugs can be fun — square abstraction dream

gator — squares

alien — The king

stripped shirt — evil chefs

Red Sketchbook — king of the space lodge

my lovely wife — Virginia

Red Sketchbook — thrown room

figure drawing — bodies in motion

oval icon — woman in a sun hat

heads — kids and creatures

fish parots — wakefield’s ship

lots of heads — leaf hat

alien designs — rock harvesters

aliens — rock movers

big eye — alien fish head

surfing — sleeping in the ocean

drunk — the drinker

for a the movie corked — corked movie poster

flying circus pitch — biplane daredevil

face man — thick

going home to Canada — moving to Vancouver

costa rica — beach view

costa rica — bay view

thai ship — Thailand boat view

thailand boat — looking across the river

heads — Shady Japanese business men

space chimps king — the crabby king

chimp — Ham

snail bad guy — exploring new king designs

space chimps king — getting a bit more expressive

hes going crazy — the napoleon hat king

space chimps alien king design — This version of the king stuck for a while

beat boards — circus chimp

beat board — fired

chimps designs — scrbbles

beat board — gum drop aliens

woman — agent

beat boards — selling the mission

chimp her design — space chimp Ham

chimp faces — chimps

chimps notes — hand puppets

nasa space pitch — advertising

the — sellsman

beat board — the ape escape

beat board — Space chump

beat board — on the run from the law

heroin — Lucy

droken l — Libias doodles

button design — club drawing

life f — virus

life form — defence

beat board — crash site

chimp doodles — space Chimp

puppets — Dead puppets

chimp design — King and shuttle

the space chimps ging — the king

alien life forms — alien garden

characture — Mike Bell as the space chimps king

bad drawing — king skibble

characters, self portrait — Mike Bell, Virginia and I

art — abstract explosion

gum drops eye balls — gumdrop aliens on the subway

orestlife underground — All the life is underground

into the water — sinking wakefield dream

surfing people — cell wall

trumpet nose — the harold

alien desing — honker

inky wave drawing — wave

random doodle — TV scuba diver

Mrs. Sheehy — Virginia

in Hong Kong — The never ending dim sum table

with Mike Bell — Crossing paths at 20,000 feet

League of rodents — rats

League of rodents

League of rodents — bunny attack

drawing her — hands and toes

Mrs. Sheehy — Virginia

in the ocean, wakefield — upside down house

the man is on the way — the fleet

head in the water — bob

house in the water — Wakefield house under full sail

In hawaii — Hawaiian shack

on Location — looking up the stairs

ink wash — house plant

ink — palm

not a ninja — sea turtle shell

looking up — sea turtle

little squares — sqaured turtle

street sweeper — boy and his broom

tude, surfing — gold shorts

in the wave — owning the wave

Red Sketchbook — alien guards

alien warriors — aliens

the valley of very bad things — sand creatures

cartoons — Matthias Lechner

missing coat — Han without jacket

archers — city guards

beards — old man and hand

dragon designs — dogs and dragons

folk funnies — folk hero

hobo dance off — twangy

oldie catoons — Yolla Yolla yolla

headdress — feathered hats

designs — the people of wu

color ink — city costume designs

people — city of Wu profile

Red Sketchbook — dragons

the man from snowy costa rica — Diring in the jungles of Costa Rica

trees in the lineup — paddling out in the storm

thoughts — memories of Costa Rica

old man murder — Killing time on Olympic Blvd

dragon designs — Wariors

wakefield dream — dress in water

with stapples — The boy

rambling — Drink up the abstraction

dragging han off — Jerk guards

dragon masks — Masks

dragon designs — Old man

final design — The dragon in disguise

hiding — ink blot

in the water — octopus

squares broken — heavenly trumpets

wedding day news — Finished drawing on my wedding day