Wrought



I spent January making this book called Wrought, a very fictional memoir based on kernels of fact (my favorite type of writing). The book is being sent off to The Sketchbook Project, which is a very cool collaboration, indeed, but some folks wanted to see the book before it got sent away for ever, and so I scanned it an have put it up here. I am not a careful scanner, and so some of the pages are missing a few millimeters, but you will get the gist. All renderings were done very fast - it's a sketchbook, after all, with a variety of black pens that I had around the house, with varying effects and success. I really enjoyed this work, perhaps more than I have done in a long while. I hope you enjoy it, too. 






















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