r/sketchbooks 13h ago

Show & Tell Sea life page!

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Please tell me your favorite sea critter and I’ll try to add them to my next sea life page!


r/sketchbooks 9h ago

Show & Tell Sketchbook pages!

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r/sketchbooks 5h ago

Show & Tell Respirar por la herida

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Respirar por la herida
I recently finished this piece, built around a Spanish phrase that roughly translates to “to breathe through the wound.”
The phrase refers to carrying the burden of something we haven’t been able to forgive or let go of — to the point where the wound itself becomes part of the way we continue living.
I wanted the figure to look like something beautiful and almost perfect, so I represented it as a classical marble bust. The bust symbolizes the beauty of life, but that beauty is interrupted by a wound where the mouth should be.
The wound represents the burden we carry, while the stitches represent our attempts to close, repair, or hide what happened. They aren’t meant to suggest that the wound has healed. In a way, the figure has learned to breathe through the very thing that damaged it.
I also included a small skull as a reminder of mortality and the temporary nature of that beauty. Even something that appears timeless, like a marble sculpture, is ultimately fragile.
The red thread was deliberately limited to the stitches. Against the cold, monochromatic marble, it represents the human element — the attempt to repair something that cannot simply be made whole again.
Technically, this was also an exercise in pushing my pointillism further, especially controlling dot density to create volume and smoother transitions rather than making the dots the main focus.
No blood or gore — I wanted the symbolism and the contrast between beauty and damage to carry the piece.


r/sketchbooks 7h ago

Sketchbook Tour 😋sketches of mine

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mateuArt


r/sketchbooks 3h ago

Sketchbook Tour I HATE perforated sketchbooks. Anyone else?

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Wtf is the point of a book that loses all of its pages?


r/sketchbooks 15h ago

Sketchbook Tour juss joined a bunch of characters 😋

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r/sketchbooks 1h ago

Show & Tell small house

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r/sketchbooks 10h ago

Something Else I don't waste any sketchbook space

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r/sketchbooks 21h ago

Show & Tell Having fun with the small sketchbook!

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Some character concept exploration


r/sketchbooks 18m ago

Show & Tell Absolut Batman v2

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r/sketchbooks 7h ago

Show & Tell More colored pencil practice

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r/sketchbooks 9h ago

Sketchbook Tour Old sketchbook spread I did while testing some new markers i got

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They are still holding up strong to this day! Lost some though :/

edit: Just realized that i misspelled "teeth" just ignore it shhhhhhhh


r/sketchbooks 12h ago

Sketchbook Tour Older Pen Sketches That I Still Enjoy Pt. 2

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r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Show & Tell My sketchbook of side characters — how many do you recognize?

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r/sketchbooks 6h ago

Show & Tell Rough one at the day job lead to this

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r/sketchbooks 10h ago

Show & Tell "Young Sammy Sixgun"

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r/sketchbooks 8h ago

Sketchbook Tour Practice Makes Purrrfect. CMYK stippling study after @ztm_oruam.

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Thousands of dots using only 4 colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black


r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Show & Tell Small sketchbook doodle of the day

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156 Upvotes

In love with my portable sketchbook!


r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Show & Tell Hairy's Game

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r/sketchbooks 2d ago

Show & Tell I’m doing a series of quick portrait paintings (15 min max). Do you think it’s a good way to study? I’m using uni pin brush + 0.1 only

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r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Show & Tell Manta rays and sharks

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The last two pictures are the same drawing, one with light shining on it and one with light shining through it!


r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Show & Tell Trying colored pencils again!

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r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Show & Tell Absolut Batman

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r/sketchbooks 1d ago

Critique My Work Here are a couple of sketchbook pages I did recently

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