Old sketchbook off the shelf

I pulled an old sketchbook of my bookshelf and realised it was from 10 years ago. I've gone back to this one sketchbook many times. I like the freedom in the drawings, really playing around with different ideas and styles, experimenting.

 

 

I like the one below. It's drawings of things I saw in a café on holiday. I can see here that I was trying out subjects and a drawing style that I still have now, though it was a lot more rough then.

 

 

 

I used to be really into drawing birds.

I want to do it all

Last night I stayed up till midnight doing this drawing. I was excited to show it so have taken photos straight away. The light isn't too good and I don't have Photoshop or a scanner these days, but you get the idea.

 

Sometimes is can be pretty overwhelming to think about all my different hopes and daydreams, so it was therapeutic to get these ones down into a drawing, and then realise that I already do some of them.  (camp, ride my bike, hike up mountains....)

Cycling along

I bought a new bike recently and since then I've been getting really into everything to do with bike riding. I started making a handlebar bag for a sewing project, I'm reading a book about bike riding (Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne) and all my drawing seem to be about cycling.