Arrival: Hiroshima!!!

Yay! The lovely red moleskine has arrived and Tom's drawings are going great with my morning coffee :) I especially like the "afterpaste". What to put in it? Suddenly I feel nervous!

Finished

Here are my completed 8 pages, I just went for the sort of thing I draw in my personal sketchbooks. I usually only draw on one side of the page as the black ink shows through, so I glued some paper onto every other page.

Here's a breakdown of each of the pages:

Page 1 - The stamp from the envelope the book arrived in, mounted in a gallery and being viewed by critics.

Page 2 - A drunk naked man ruining a carpet at a party.

Page 3 - A group of chavs.

Page 4 - An advert for 'Afterpaste' toothpaste. I love drawing adverts for disgusting and/or useless products I invent.

Page 5 - A pile of random characters. I used to doodle pictures like this all the time at school.

Page 6 and 7 - A translated guide to 'The Idiots of the Internet'. Mostly inspired by the stupid comments often seen on YouTube videos.

Page 8 - The Joker. Loosely based on Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Batman villain. Thought I'd go for a change and use some colour on this one.

I had a lot of fun finishing my pages, and ended up finishing a fair few in my own Moleskine too. Hope you all enjoy your turn, and fingers crossed this one doesn't get lost.

Toms entry, News, Song

The red book is now in its final hours of toms possession and soon he will reveal what delights he has given us,

In other news... The red books next stop is japan! Wahay were going global! I am also going to put some more links in the sidebars over the next week so if anyone has any great website's they think we should all know about just stick a comment on this post and i'll see what i can do.

I have noticed that some people place things like songs they are liking or books they are reading at the end of blog posts SO...

one for the old ravers of the 90's
Matt Helders (drummer from arctic monkeys) - Dreamer (feat. Nesreen Shah).

First (again)

The new red book arrived yesterday morning. I've been noting down ideas of what to put in it, and I'm looking forward to making my mark. I had originally planned on doing the first page the day it arrived, but much to my frustration a client is currently forcing me to rework a load of character designs (back to my originally proposed designs, why do they always do that?). But anyway, the project is back on track.

Ps. Where's my chocolate then? :D

just to clarify things

hello all, the RED book is now on its way to tom sambles. the BLACK book is currently lost.
as the black book only had 1 entry into it i am going to send out another if it does not appear by january.
so all you people who wish to sign up but think its too late, dont despair we still got room for more.

the reason for there bieng 2 books is this, i had an applicant who teaches advanced photography, she thought it would be a good idea to let her class contribute in the 8 pages, i decided to make it a bit bigger than 8 pages though, so her class will be split in two and given a page each and one for her in each book, this takes up 12 pages in each book. although this leaves a number not divisible by eight leaving blank pages?!? no worries i am also going to split my entry acrross the 2 books aswell! i think this will give the books something to link them together.it will make the RED and BLACK moleskines become an inseparable pair.

ps.
if anyone else wishes to split there entry across the 2 books let me know.

chow for now.

new book! new color!

hi y'all. round 2 here we come.

so i went to order the new book from mojo london today as i have been unable to get my ass to my local waterstones and low and behold what did i find there! ill tell you what, red yes RED moleskines! so i ordered one and its on its way. i figured new start so we may as well have a new color? what do you all think? i know it's not the traditional 'black book' we all know and love but hey this is not a traditional project! 

so, Mr Tom Sambles, are you ready for the challenge of being the second 'first contributor' in the all new red travelling moleskine?

www.mojolondon.co.uk/stationery/moleskine/large/moleskine_red_plain_notebook_large.htm

What Now?

I dont really want to say what I am about to but I must.

It seems the book is lost, I have not heard from gemma for over 3 weeks and my overactive imagination has got me thinking that something really bad has happened. I am going to write her a letter in hope of finding out whats going on. I really hope she is ok and the book has got lost, I think the contributors are more important than the book itself.

Now then, there is a decision to be made! should I send out another book and start again? my current opinion is that I will send out another book asap and then randomly pick the contributors one by one and see where it takes us, although it probably wont be that random as I already have certain plans in my head that I really wish to follow.

please leave comments on what to do next. all opinions welcome.

ps. 

If we start again then our first contributor (Jen) will get to have another go in the new book, its only fair.

where is it?

I have no idea, our little book has lost it's way but so has our 2n'd contributor! they have both dissapeared from the radar. I really hope nothing bad has happened to the book and our contributor. let's all hope that gemma is ok and the book is on its travels.

hello y'all I'm back

firstly I would like to say that the uk is bloody freezing! oh how I wish for my sunny menorcan villa, secondly i shall be tracking down our beloved moleskine A.S.A.P! and i shall also be definately starting the 'travelling moleskine' vol.2 around christmas so all you who wish to join in can do so in the 2nd book!

ps. the book is supposedly in surrey by now but I have not heard from the new contributor yet, maybe it has not arrived yet but i do know it has spent the last 2 weeks in watford

the next contributor is tom sambles though, check him out at  Tom Sambles Illustration

where oh where is our little moleskine?! where is its current residence & what delights does it contain?