The Traveling sketchbook has moved! Here is the the new site: THE TRAVELING SKETCHBOOK
its more legit and all the old posts have been saved there. be sure to go there for updates now. cool, peace.
Also the book is on its way back to Ohio, so expect some new updates on there soon, only thing is that I am on Spring Break so I am not sure when I will get a chance to post new images. Hopefully soon though.
- Luke
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Destination Kansas
The sketchbook has reached the first destination, Kansas. I'm pretty excited about seeing what the new pages look like...
- Luke
- Luke
Monday, March 9, 2009
Wall Mural: part 2
Here are some higher quality pictures of the wall mural project. Thanks to AJ for the awesome photos.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Wall Mural
Here is something that myself and a couple other people from the University of Dayton art department put together. Sort of a collage wall mural of things that inspire us, it is meant to introduce people to lots of new influences. It has a kind of gradient of dark images to light and color to black and white which makes it pretty interesting. It is quite large in person and really defines the space that it occupies. I hope I can get some higher resolution pictures soon, camera phones are only so good.
Just something to tide you over until I get the sketchbook back. I'm pretty excited to see what the new entries are.
- Luke
Just something to tide you over until I get the sketchbook back. I'm pretty excited to see what the new entries are.
- Luke
Friday, March 6, 2009
So it begins...
Here is the first Spread!
Done by Luke Effler, Art Student and the University of Dayton, age 19. Some materials I used were pencil, ink, marker, china marker, spray paint, print transfer, tape, and other found materials. 
I included a full photo and two so you can see detail for each page. Also I sent out the book today in the mail, and I'm pretty excited to see the results of the ensuing works. Happy sketching.
- Luke
Done by Luke Effler, Art Student and the University of Dayton, age 19. Some materials I used were pencil, ink, marker, china marker, spray paint, print transfer, tape, and other found materials. 
I included a full photo and two so you can see detail for each page. Also I sent out the book today in the mail, and I'm pretty excited to see the results of the ensuing works. Happy sketching.- Luke
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
the cover. cool
So here are some pictures of the cover that I put on the book. I took one with the flash and realized it had a pretty bad glare, but then when I took it without the flash, it was too dark. So I just posted both. Go figure.The book is going to be shipped for the first time very shortly but before it is I am going to do the first page and post that. Hopefully I will have sent the book out before the weekend.
- Luke
P.S.
I edited the links down at the bottom of the first post on the blog, so that you can click on them and go directly to the corresponding site. Also, I need to find a better camera for the pages of the book...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
a blank start
I'm beginning to get really excited about this project. This is the size (240 pages, 7 1/2 by 10") I guess that means that there will be 120 different artists represented each by a two page spread. I am hoping to get a very wide range of artists with all kinds of different backgrounds and specialties. This is going to be awesome.
- Luke
Starting the "book"
I have always been a fan of the sketchbook. I have been keeping a sketchbook of sorts ever since I can remember. I always enjoy going back and looking at my old sketchbooks and seeing how I have progressed from sketch to sketch and book to book. I think that the sketchbook is often times more important then the artist's final work because it shows what exactly the artist was thinking and how they got to that final work.
In high school I began to get very excited about sketching and keeping a regular sketchbook for many reasons. My art teachers in high school, Mr. Woolery and Uncle Greg, not only encouraged but enforced the sketchbook. Since I had a background in sketching the sketchbook was not a new concept to me, but I took it to a new level my senior year of high school when I created close to 13 fully developed books.
Another important event in my senior year was when sketchbob came to my high school art class and showed us that the sketchbook can be an artwork all by itself. Until then I always kind of considered it to be somewhat expendable. After meeting and talking to sketchbob I began to research sketchbooks in general and began to look at what other people were doing in their books. I came across many different kinds of sketchbooks, which peeked my interest and increased my excitement even further. Since then I have been creating books. I almost never leave without my sketchbook for anywhere. I sketch as often as possible, because as I was once told 9 out of 10 ideas are lost because they are never written down, or in this case sketched out.
One of my favorite things that I have come across in my research of sketchbooks is the traveling sketchbook. Since I found out about this I have been waiting for an opportunity to create my own traveling sketchbook. Now I am a second semester freshman in college and I have finally decided to start the book. My friend Raime and I were looking to do something artistic recently so I put forth this idea and now we are on our way to creating our own traveling sketchbook.
Every time that the book gets an update I will be posting the new work. Each Artist will be recognized for their work, which will consist of a two page spread. So hopefully some new works will begin showing up soon.
- Luke
P.S. for those who have never seen some really awesome sketchbooks check out these sites.
http://sketchbob.com/ (this is the one who came to my school, he's awesome)
http://lookatbook.com/
http://www.daneldon.org/
http://www.1000journals.com/
In high school I began to get very excited about sketching and keeping a regular sketchbook for many reasons. My art teachers in high school, Mr. Woolery and Uncle Greg, not only encouraged but enforced the sketchbook. Since I had a background in sketching the sketchbook was not a new concept to me, but I took it to a new level my senior year of high school when I created close to 13 fully developed books.
Another important event in my senior year was when sketchbob came to my high school art class and showed us that the sketchbook can be an artwork all by itself. Until then I always kind of considered it to be somewhat expendable. After meeting and talking to sketchbob I began to research sketchbooks in general and began to look at what other people were doing in their books. I came across many different kinds of sketchbooks, which peeked my interest and increased my excitement even further. Since then I have been creating books. I almost never leave without my sketchbook for anywhere. I sketch as often as possible, because as I was once told 9 out of 10 ideas are lost because they are never written down, or in this case sketched out.
One of my favorite things that I have come across in my research of sketchbooks is the traveling sketchbook. Since I found out about this I have been waiting for an opportunity to create my own traveling sketchbook. Now I am a second semester freshman in college and I have finally decided to start the book. My friend Raime and I were looking to do something artistic recently so I put forth this idea and now we are on our way to creating our own traveling sketchbook.
Every time that the book gets an update I will be posting the new work. Each Artist will be recognized for their work, which will consist of a two page spread. So hopefully some new works will begin showing up soon.
- Luke
P.S. for those who have never seen some really awesome sketchbooks check out these sites.
http://sketchbob.com/ (this is the one who came to my school, he's awesome)
http://lookatbook.com/
http://www.daneldon.org/
http://www.1000journals.com/
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