Sketchbook World Tour 2012

 This year I had the opportunity to be involved in the Arthouse Co-op Sketchbook World Tour 2012. The idea is, you pay twenty dollars, these nice folks send you a blank sketchbook and you can draw whatever you want, do practically whatever you want to it as long as it doesn't exceed the dimensions given and you send it back. The book then goes on a world tour to major cities- Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Vancouver, Austin, Atlanta, Portland, Melbourne, London, and a few more awesome cities. Then after the tour, it goes and lives in the Brooklyn Art Library forever, maybe not forever but for as long as the Brooklyn Art Library stays alive.

 So I do this thing sometimes (almost always) when I have a deadline, I tend to procrastinate until the very last moment and this sketchbook project was the epitome of that. It was cool because some of my best work comes out when I'm pressured but it was also really bad beause my social life turned into "oh hey Tony, you want to hang out" oh no, I can't, I have to work on my sketchbook".

 What was a really nice feature of this project is that you can bind any amount of pages/the type of paper you want in your book so that gives you a lot of freedom to do what you want. I figured binding it with a needle for each end would be easier.

I received the book back in June of 2011. I didn't even touch it until about The first week of January 2012 and the last day to postmark it was January 31st, 2012. I pulled two all nighters and finished it and  brought it to the post office to be postmarked at 4 pm, with an hour to spare. I have problems, but I got it done, I'm really happy with it and I'm so excited for the tour to start so I can see all of my friends and other talented artist's work.

Heres to a great year.