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Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art
More than quick sketches and drawings, Moleskine art can encompass mixed media and even digital art. The imperfect lines, smudges and wrinkles give it dimension and raw honesty that more than ever are sought by digital artists and implemented in software. Regardless of any advancement in technology, pen and paper will always be the number once choice for any budding artist or seasoned illustrator.
No theme or medium is ever neglected for the Moleskine treatment if the mood strikes the artist, spawning art like no other. With abstracts, travel themes and even other-worldly monsters, this collection of Moleskine art sketches and drawings is sure to inspire thought and spark your muse. Below you will find diverse styles created for a medium that refuses to die.
Moleskine Art Sketches and Drawings
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Resources
- Skineart
Society dedicated to Moleskine art, with many contributors. - Flickr Sketch Book Style Group
Flickr Photo pool. - Flickr Subway Illustrations
Great source for inspiration. - Flickr Sketch Group
Another great website for inspiration. - Flickr Urban Views
Another great website for inspiration. - Flickr
More Flickr groups. - Moleskinerie
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- 2October 22nd, 2008 3:15 pm
Pretty cool! (;
- 3October 22nd, 2008 3:21 pm
wow
- 4October 22nd, 2008 3:22 pm
The coffee cup one is repeated twice. Nice collection though. :)
- 5October 22nd, 2008 3:26 pm
wow – I like them…thanks SM I have now been inspired to try something new with my illustrations.
- 6October 22nd, 2008 3:39 pm
@Irene (#4): thanks, fixed.
- 7October 22nd, 2008 3:53 pm
Lovely collection, really neat idea.
- 8October 22nd, 2008 4:06 pm
fantastic sketching! makes me want to pick up my pencils and sketch pad again!
- 9October 22nd, 2008 6:22 pm
i wonder if they r drawing on their bank book?
- 10October 22nd, 2008 6:36 pm
@kai, uh no its their moleskine. a really extravagant notepad if u ask me.
these guys are fantastic.
- 11October 22nd, 2008 8:11 pm
Some of them really look weird… and some of them really look Great
- 12October 22nd, 2008 9:08 pm
I want to collection it.
and copy them to my sketch book. - 13October 22nd, 2008 10:13 pm
Wow, now this is a great post. They’re all good, but this one is great. Fantastic compilation…
- 14October 22nd, 2008 10:57 pm
oops, Skineart’s link was wrong :)
- 15October 22nd, 2008 10:58 pm
Very nice. I have had a love affair with these little books for years. They are wonderful for jotting down ideas while traveling. I have some of my Moleskine sketches on my blog if anyone would like to take a gander:
http://michaeljhildebrand.blogspot.com/search/label/sketch
I love smashingmagazine.com and am glad to see so many others share the loveas well. - 16October 22nd, 2008 11:00 pm
cool man, I started to draw in my note book
- 17October 22nd, 2008 11:04 pm
Number 16 from top is awesome! I wish I could draw like this…
- 18October 22nd, 2008 11:13 pm
G E N I U S.
I have to go to a coffee shop and spend some time there.
It’s just a petty, that I don’t have the time ;-)JUST GENIUS.
- 19October 22nd, 2008 11:50 pm
Very inspiring stuff.
Makes me want to turn off this PC and go and draw! - 20October 23rd, 2008 12:14 am
hey, great resource,
error on the first link though to Skineart, its trying to find it within Smashing.
- 21October 23rd, 2008 12:22 am
every post has its own priority. i am loving and inspired by every post.
thanks a lot SM
- 22October 23rd, 2008 1:03 am
wow. this reminds me – we all computer geeks and graphic designers should much often get off the computer, take a pencil and draw something on the paper… wholly different and refreshing experience
- 23October 23rd, 2008 1:03 am
Einfach super genial.
- 24October 23rd, 2008 1:43 am
Drooling over them… wish I am this artistic… Moleskine are too expensive anyway…
- 25October 23rd, 2008 1:58 am
These drawings are awesome,
but what is the difference t a normal sheet of paper?
@kew
Moleskine are not to expensive, if you concentrate on the value they give you and not on the production costs. - 26October 23rd, 2008 3:41 am
I love my moleskines. Its wonderful to see what other people do with theirs.
- 27October 23rd, 2008 4:37 am
These are REALLY amazing, each one of them! Hope that this kind of art will NEVER die…
- 28October 23rd, 2008 5:56 am
Great art.
More post’s like this. - 29October 23rd, 2008 5:58 am
I am super jealous of the doodling abilities in this post! What an awesome round-up.
- 30October 23rd, 2008 6:10 am
wow.. I gotta get a moleskine
i think #16 were the original sketches for the monster in Cloverfield? I’ve seen it before
- 31October 23rd, 2008 6:27 am
What fabulous and inspiring examples! I off to draw in mine now after filling up with eye candy!
- 32October 23rd, 2008 6:45 am
nice collection.
- 33October 23rd, 2008 7:38 am
lovely stuff
- 34October 23rd, 2008 8:26 am
@Michael J. Hildebrand
Nice work. I like the pencil stuff, since I tend to draw with one color. - 35October 23rd, 2008 9:10 am
It is a wonderful opportunity to get to see inside the sketch books of so many artists and doodlers. It is equally liberating to know it is so easy to share “informal” creativity with others.
- 36October 23rd, 2008 9:28 am
There are some awesome sketches in this post :)
Excellent SM!
- 37October 23rd, 2008 10:24 am
Now *that’s* a post! Outstanding collection, Elaine B.
Here are a few of my favorite Moleskine collections:
From Saint Petersburg, Russia – design team Indeepop’s Japanese Moleskine project:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Japanese-Moleskine-Project/50527The Moleskine Project is an attempt to uncover talent from around the world by asking artists to submit the doodles from their own personal notebooks:
http://moleskineproject.com/Ines Gamler:
http://www.purepleasuredesign.com/blog/2007/04/26/my-moleskine/ - 38October 23rd, 2008 10:29 am
Sorry, my last link should be credited to Fabio Iaschi (I saw it on a blog post at Ines Gamler’s site). Fabio Iaschi is here:
http://www.mymoleskine.net/index_eng.htm - 39October 23rd, 2008 9:52 pm
Echt genial. Da bekommt man wieder mal Lust im eigenen Moleskine zu schreiben.
Link [www.alexextra.com] - 40October 23rd, 2008 11:26 pm
I pondered this page as if I was in a book… A silent reverence for the art and artist’s who contributed.
- 41October 24th, 2008 4:37 am
My dear friend Shellie Fiocca does some great abstract portrait work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missshellie/130316032/ - 42
- 43October 25th, 2008 3:34 am
Moleskine rocks =)
http://www.maltegruhl.com
–> play/day to day; are my drawings. - 44October 25th, 2008 8:58 am
Beautiful :)
- 45October 25th, 2008 1:02 pm
Impressive!!
- 46October 25th, 2008 1:31 pm
Nice! I have about 10 moleskine notebooks filled with this kind of stuff. My daughter says I’m the doodle king!
- 47October 26th, 2008 3:15 am
excelent smashing
- 48October 26th, 2008 7:40 am
Am I the only one who spotted the one that is very obviously NOT a Moleskine?
- 49October 26th, 2008 11:53 am
I drew some wicked kickass art in my notebook, but it wasn’t in a Moleskine(tm) so it’s not very cool.
- 50October 27th, 2008 8:10 am
Look at the fantastic project Moly_X created by the artist Marty Harris.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/ - 51October 27th, 2008 11:07 am
Some of this is good sketching, but the other 50% looks like the type of crap one finds scrawled in a high school composition book. Well, if you love craft-less and heavy-handed scribbles of dragons and lightening bolts, then I guess this would be a great collection.
I’ve seen far more interesting sketch books than many of these. - 52October 28th, 2008 9:28 am
Lovely!!!!!!!!! thank u!!
- 53October 29th, 2008 5:36 pm
Great collection! I’m a big fan of Moleskines for my own illustration work.
- 54October 31st, 2008 5:21 am
it is incredible)) I like it!
я вот тоже иногда балуюсь – http://agrafena.name/o-sebe/191.html - 55November 1st, 2008 11:38 pm
nice illustrations. but moleskin is just a brand. like saying ‘Beautiful examples of Mac art” – as if the brand has anything to do with the creativity. hmf.
- 56November 7th, 2008 1:01 am
moleskine paper sucks for sketching and drawing… even if the small books have a beautiful design:)
- 57November 10th, 2008 1:31 am
wooow…that s real cool
- 58November 20th, 2008 5:23 pm
great works!
- 59November 23rd, 2008 5:25 pm
awesome! moleskine it up people. nothing like the beauiful expressiveness of humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 60December 2nd, 2008 8:24 am
great artwork
- 61December 14th, 2008 4:53 pm
Andrea Joseph makes awesome doodles
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lmxbKs08saU/SSL0X_QTOnI/AAAAAAAABpY/BSGQVQW8t60/s1600-h/print.jpg
- 62December 27th, 2008 10:02 am
Thank you for taking the time to post all of these. i wish more artist put their stuff up for others to see. it’s inspirational. I enjoyed it.
- 63December 27th, 2008 1:25 pm
it’s so rude and shows your ignorance when you put down someone’s art because YOU don’t like it. I just read the post from Earl, I just had to say that everyone deserves to be treated with respect, whether you like their work or not.
- 64December 30th, 2008 9:53 pm
wow. i had no idea doodling was called moleskin art.
i do some random stuff too like this :) - 65January 9th, 2009 3:38 pm
A lot of other wonderful and stunning moleskine art, drawings, sketches and of course collages you can also find in the flickr-group Artbook-Klub. And some more details about different artists on the lovely website Notpaper.net.
- 66January 11th, 2009 9:45 am
This is a truly inspiring post – THANKS! I got myself a new kind of sketchbook for 2009. It’s quite expensive – but with more pages of heavy canvas, handcrafted leather bounding (Il Papiro Firenze). I hope it helps to advance my sketches ;) But I will stick to my Moleskine agenda (I really love them…)
- 67February 3rd, 2009 7:10 am
I have a moleskine and love it!
- 68February 25th, 2009 2:10 pm
Nice pictures!
- 69April 6th, 2009 8:33 pm
Awesome!! Makes me want to get back to the drawing board.
- 70April 21st, 2009 8:41 pm
supeRad ! been slacking lately but i had been photographing my sketchbooks and posting them to Flickr, and this ^ has me wanting to get back to it. have something like 13 of these puppies left to shoot :P
if you’ve got any interest take a look >
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36831686@N00/sets/72157607587919483/
i’ve always loved the notion of a sketchbook; this catch all for the creative process. It’s my humble opinion that the process is, many times, more impressive than the finished product.
definitely dig some feedback – keep it up !
word
- 71May 1st, 2009 10:54 am
I’m just a 10 year old kid but I think the stuff is brilliant, I drew some stuff in my sketch book.
- 72July 3rd, 2009 4:26 pm
I just got a sick retro white Moleskine cover at: http://www.molecover.com I love rocking it in my local coffee shop!
- 73September 9th, 2009 8:38 pm
i loved it!!! kudos to SM!!!! love your website! :)
- 74October 3rd, 2009 7:07 am
Love it!
Let’s see some more!
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