Robert's Moly in progress

It's gettin' there. Took this pic with my phone, so it's not the best quality, but you get the idea.

-Suzette

Moly_X_Portrait2 - "Delivered to your door"

Dear friends of Moly_x2, from now on whenever a new post is made on the blog, all people will be automatically alerted by e-mail. This will help us to keep us updated in real time and can see and comment about what is being done in the books.I did not add the Anna's e-mail  for a while, but I asked her by Flickr Mail.Please to make sure it is working properly, enter the blog and comment on this post.

PS. Now we also have there in the right column the "lables" with which we mark the posts, it helps a lot in time to get an older post.
Thank you all, I'm very excited to start this exchange. 

Update

Just got my Moly, and I must say I am impressed with how small it actually is! I haven't used a Japanese Moleskine before but I am already in love with it...

I'll be sure to update with some progress as I work on my self portrait, while you all are waiting here is a photo of me to spark some ideas:



There are a couple others on my Flickr page and I will include some with my book as well. I'm pretty excited to start my entry!

Little Update

Hi, Everyone. I just wanted to let you know that I received Robert's moly and will post pics when I'm finished. Until then, here is some self portrait inspiration courtesy of Rembrandt.

Nice to meet You !

Hi friends from MolyXportrait2

My name is Claudio Ramires, I was born in southern Brasil (Rio Grande do Sul on the Pampas region) but I live in São Paulo, the largest, exciting and chaotic city in South America.
I worked many years as an illustrator, art director and graphic designer, currently divide my time between painting and planing  virtual interfaces for Internet, television and mobile devices in a big company ...
In painting I have been passionately devoted to Acrylics, "the most rebellious of paintings" :-)
I'm participating in other 3 Moleskine Exchanges groups (34, 54 and Portrait4).
I love this project, it has helped me to grow as an artist, to expand my world view and to make new friends in many places, I think we're there to have fun, but "to fun it's a serious subject" :-)
I'm waiting impatiently for a new moleskine order from Amazon to work here...
It will be a great pleasure to interact with so many talented people that I've seen here. Thank you all.
My Flickr and my Blog  . (sorry for my English :-P) The image here shows some self portraits fragments traveling around the world on board of little black books

work in progress

I worked on the weekend on my self protrait. I make some images of the process. You can check them on my flickr. I realized that I made a mistake: I started onthe 3rd and 4th page instead of the 1st and 2nd. I have to think what to do with them.
By the way what information should come in the Moleskine?
The other question I have is which Moleskine would I become next?

a few things about me

Ciao Ragazzi,

My name is Omar Jaramillo Traverso. I come from Guayaquil, Ecuador. I lived 8 years in Kassel, Germany. Since 2007 I live in Catania Sicily, where I work as a landscape architect. (I studyed architecture in Ecuador and Germany). I like to sketch and paint with watercolours. But also use other tools.

I'm also an urbansketcher, you can find my post with the tag Omar Jaramillo in http://www.urbansketchers.com/

other sites where you can see my work and a few things about me:

my flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/omarpaint

my blog: http://www.omar-paint.blogspot.com/

This Moly_x is new to me and at first I will be depending on your advise and experience. I have seen your work in the Moleskines, and I'm very happy to be part of such a creative group!

First entry

This is my first entry in my moleskine, and is off to suzette now ;)

Hello group!

Hi everyone!

My name is Dana Bower and I am very excited to be joining your MolyX group! I've been interested in MolyX for awhile now after seeing entries in books tagged and displayed throughout fickr but was never in a position to really dive into one myself.

I am a recent college graduate from Bowling Green State University. I received my Bachelor's of Science in Technology in August, my major was Visual Commication Technology. After graduating, I began doing graphic design work under my own company (which is still developing along nicely!) and I just turned 22 years old yesterday! I've been wanting to do traditional work now more than ever as I have gotten away from it a bit throughout college. I figured now is the time, and I hope to grow enough so that I can incorporate illustration into my company's business plan.

I look forward to learning more about everyone and learning what MolyX is really all about!

Let me introduce myself :)

Hi guys,

I'm so glad to be here, because i've been looking for a group to join molyX for months:) Well, I'm Danica and I am a student of architecture. I am from Slovakia so i hope it won't be a problem for moly to travel over the ocean. I hope we'll get to know better!

And sorry for my english, it is not perfect but i am still learning ;)

Now recruiting (and status update)

I just posted a recruiting topic to the flickrgroup to see if we can get some energy back in our group. Prior to that I posted on one of the other threads where folks were looking to join a group and I'd like to welcome our newest member, Danica!

I added her in between myself and Suzette. So, Robert's moly is going to Suzette and Heidi's will go to Danica when it's ready (hopefully by the end of the week). After that I think I'll finally start my own book and get it rolling...hopefully to our next new member.

So, what's everyone else got cooking? Any other books out there? Please comment on this post and let everyone know what's going on. Thanks.

Robert's Moly finished and ready to fly!

Spent the last few nights working on Robert's moly (don't worry Heidi, I'll get back to yours soon!) and it's all finished and ready to go...but to who? (Tiffany, are you still in? I don't remember seeing anything from you on the blog.) If I don't hear from Tiffany I think I'll send this on to Suzette, I know she's been moly-less for a long time now.


I thought I'd try a different technique with this one and have always loved France Belleville's drawings. So, this is my Ode to France. I'm not really happy with Robert's portrait...I think I screwed up the proportions in the underlying drawing and was well into the crosshatching before I realized it. Mine came out a bit better but the sunglasses hide the toughest parts.

Fun fact: In the photos I worked from Robert is standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon and in mine I'm on a mountain opposite Breckenridge, CO.

Linda's Moly resurfaces!

Linda's moly finally turned up after spending about 3 and a half months lost in the wilderness of the USPS. I added the following entry inspired by the sketchbooks of James Jean, one of my favorite artists. He's got an amazing new book of sketches out, Process Recess 3:The Hallowed Seam and I just got my copy.

UPDATE (1/1/10): I added some more background noise to this entry and sent it back to Linda and it seems to have made it home safe and sound (feel free to bug her to get back in this group ;-)



I also started working on Heidi's moly (still need to add my self-portrait) and here's what it looks like so far: