Pandemic Drawings

One of the silver linings of the pandemic was that it gave me a little more time to work on my personal projects. In January of 2020 I decided to start drawing every day and when COVID shut everything down the practice became easier to maintain. After a year, I’d made close to 500 sketches. Most of them were done quickly, and most were copies of either photos (landscapes in upstate New York, England, and Switzerland) or other artist’s drawings ( Schiele, Cézanne, and Constable) that I found online.

I assembled 64 of the drawings in this book, A Year of Drawings, which I printed through Blurb, the print-on-demand company I use for many of my personal creative projects. I design the book using InDesign and then produce a PDF which I upload to the company’s website. Early on in using Blurb I settled on using a tooth paper stock option they provide. For this book it contributed to the feel of it being a sketchbook, which I loved.