Jason Boyd's Uploads

Old sketchbook, rare occurrence of my not obsessing and overthinking and just instead drawing some quick characters.

Ballpoint and colored pencil. 8.5"x11" sketchbook page

Digital pencil (Procreate). 2018

Fine tip black marker pen, colored pencil. 8.5"x11" sketchbook. 1995

Micron fine liner, water brush markers, colored pencil on brown toned paper. 4.5"x7"

I bought a set of 3 Bic multi-color ballpoint pens, a total of 10 colors including black, and a new sketchbook. Playing around with what colors and effects are possible, I'm excited to do more stuff with these pens. The colors didn't perfectly reproduce between the photo and JPEG compression. But I love how the upper left section is all done with the one dark blue, green, and red pen.

I'm surprised how when I use a sketchbook's back page basically to test media, I end up freed from the pressure to make anything "good" and as a result, the doodles that end up there sometimes tell their own story that I look back on much later and remember.

Pencil study of LEGO dude. Approx 4"x4". 2005

Fine tip black pen, 8.5" x 11"

Decalcified pineal gland on toned paper, 4.5" x 7"

This one is important to me. I had been having a very long dry spell, not making any art, and then one day last Fall, while on a road trip, camping in Mesa Verde park, I drew this using some copic grey scale brush markers and a fine liner, and it was like my vision was returning. I got really into seeing, and imagining ... Anyway since then I've still been struggling to make more work, but have been making more creative things when I do get productive, and been organizing older work... It's also interesting that I titled this piece Phase Transition back in Nov '23, and subsequently had quite a sea change of life experiences, adventure, and new visions. Now if I could just sit down and draw more...

Phase-stabilized radon ink-jet quill on carbon nano-fiber plate. 24" x 36".

Fine liner, 8.5" x 11". This one is pretty dark but still amuses me years later.

This was the best sketchbook I ever owned. It appeared mysteriously and within a year, was gone to the wind. These are the back pages where I was exploring different water and alcohol marker brushes and ballpoint on the amazing vellum-like paper.

Cheap black pen, 8.5" x 11" sketchbook. Mom's living room circa 1995.

Graphite pencils, 8.5" x 11"

fineliner, digitally colored

Ballpoint and alcohol markers. 8.5" x 5" sketchbook.