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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Daniel Whyte
October 22nd, 2008 2:55 pmNice i like them
Violeta
October 22nd, 2008 3:15 pmPretty cool! (;
Steve
October 22nd, 2008 3:21 pmwow
Irene
October 22nd, 2008 3:22 pmThe coffee cup one is repeated twice. Nice collection though. :)
Madichiban
October 22nd, 2008 3:26 pmwow – I like them…thanks SM I have now been inspired to try something new with my illustrations.
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
October 22nd, 2008 3:39 pm@Irene (#4): thanks, fixed.
liam
October 22nd, 2008 3:53 pmLovely collection, really neat idea.
Gianni
October 22nd, 2008 4:06 pmfantastic sketching! makes me want to pick up my pencils and sketch pad again!
kai
October 22nd, 2008 6:22 pmi wonder if they r drawing on their bank book?
kyll
October 22nd, 2008 6:36 pm@kai, uh no its their moleskine. a really extravagant notepad if u ask me.
these guys are fantastic.
dev(Www.iHaCK.ASIA)
October 22nd, 2008 8:11 pmSome of them really look weird… and some of them really look Great
http://Www.iHaCK.ASIA
Aero.Wu
October 22nd, 2008 9:08 pmI want to collection it.
and copy them to my sketch book.
Cody
October 22nd, 2008 10:13 pmWow, now this is a great post. They’re all good, but this one is great. Fantastic compilation…
Chris
October 22nd, 2008 10:57 pmoops, Skineart’s link was wrong :)
Michael J. Hildebrand
October 22nd, 2008 10:58 pmVery 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.
rajaraman
October 22nd, 2008 11:00 pmcool man, I started to draw in my note book
Mastergreed
October 22nd, 2008 11:04 pmNumber 16 from top is awesome! I wish I could draw like this…
Curt Simon Harlinghausen
October 22nd, 2008 11:13 pmG 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.
Tao
October 22nd, 2008 11:50 pmVery inspiring stuff.
Makes me want to turn off this PC and go and draw!
Richard Spencer Davies
October 23rd, 2008 12:14 amhey, great resource,
error on the first link though to Skineart, its trying to find it within Smashing.
srinivas
October 23rd, 2008 12:22 amevery post has its own priority. i am loving and inspired by every post.
thanks a lot SM
pepa007
October 23rd, 2008 1:03 amwow. 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
Dedail
October 23rd, 2008 1:03 amEinfach super genial.
kew
October 23rd, 2008 1:43 amDrooling over them… wish I am this artistic… Moleskine are too expensive anyway…
Marco
October 23rd, 2008 1:58 amThese 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.
brad strickland
October 23rd, 2008 3:41 amI love my moleskines. Its wonderful to see what other people do with theirs.
SiGa
October 23rd, 2008 4:37 amThese are REALLY amazing, each one of them! Hope that this kind of art will NEVER die…
Unplugged
October 23rd, 2008 5:56 amGreat art.
More post’s like this.
Wayfaring Wanderer
October 23rd, 2008 5:58 amI am super jealous of the doodling abilities in this post! What an awesome round-up.
Joe o
October 23rd, 2008 6:10 amwow.. I gotta get a moleskine
i think #16 were the original sketches for the monster in Cloverfield? I’ve seen it before
Ronni
October 23rd, 2008 6:27 amWhat fabulous and inspiring examples! I off to draw in mine now after filling up with eye candy!
danny garcía
October 23rd, 2008 6:45 amnice collection.
Dan
October 23rd, 2008 7:38 amlovely stuff
Jesse
October 23rd, 2008 8:26 am@Michael J. Hildebrand
Nice work. I like the pencil stuff, since I tend to draw with one color.
christen
October 23rd, 2008 9:10 amIt 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.
masilli
October 23rd, 2008 9:28 amThere are some awesome sketches in this post :)
Excellent SM!
Dr. Girlfriend
October 23rd, 2008 10:24 amNow *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/50527
The 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/
Dr. Girlfriend
October 23rd, 2008 10:29 amSorry, 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
alexextra
October 23rd, 2008 9:52 pmEcht genial. Da bekommt man wieder mal Lust im eigenen Moleskine zu schreiben.
Link [www.alexextra.com]
Lilsis
October 23rd, 2008 11:26 pmI pondered this page as if I was in a book… A silent reverence for the art and artist’s who contributed.
Kurt Cruse
October 24th, 2008 4:37 amMy dear friend Shellie Fiocca does some great abstract portrait work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missshellie/130316032/
shellie
October 24th, 2008 4:51 amhttp://farm1.static.flickr.com/19/96451827_e0f1fa0c7c.jpg
Johnny Snow
October 25th, 2008 3:34 amMoleskine rocks =)
http://www.maltegruhl.com
–> play/day to day; are my drawings.
Dennis
October 25th, 2008 8:58 amBeautiful :)
Pedro
October 25th, 2008 1:02 pmImpressive!!
Jack McDaniel
October 25th, 2008 1:31 pmNice! I have about 10 moleskine notebooks filled with this kind of stuff. My daughter says I’m the doodle king!
ali
October 26th, 2008 3:15 amexcelent smashing
Reese
October 26th, 2008 7:40 amAm I the only one who spotted the one that is very obviously NOT a Moleskine?
sam
October 26th, 2008 11:53 amI drew some wicked kickass art in my notebook, but it wasn’t in a Moleskine(tm) so it’s not very cool.
ramires
October 27th, 2008 8:10 amLook at the fantastic project Moly_X created by the artist Marty Harris.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/
earl
October 27th, 2008 11:07 amSome 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.
mariaaa
October 28th, 2008 9:28 amLovely!!!!!!!!! thank u!!
Christina Entcheva
October 29th, 2008 5:36 pmGreat collection! I’m a big fan of Moleskines for my own illustration work.
agrafena.name
October 31st, 2008 5:21 amit is incredible)) I like it!
я вот тоже иногда балуюсь – http://agrafena.name/o-sebe/191.html
paul
November 1st, 2008 11:38 pmnice 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.
Simo
November 7th, 2008 1:01 ammoleskine paper sucks for sketching and drawing… even if the small books have a beautiful design:)
Snowflake
November 10th, 2008 1:31 amwooow…that s real cool
Bia
November 20th, 2008 5:23 pmgreat works!
dinaa
November 23rd, 2008 5:25 pmawesome! moleskine it up people. nothing like the beauiful expressiveness of humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hank
December 2nd, 2008 8:24 amgreat artwork
Karen
December 14th, 2008 4:53 pmAndrea Joseph makes awesome doodles
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lmxbKs08saU/SSL0X_QTOnI/AAAAAAAABpY/BSGQVQW8t60/s1600-h/print.jpg
susan g. jensen
December 27th, 2008 10:02 amThank 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.
trish
December 27th, 2008 1:25 pmit’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.
greycellsinxs
December 30th, 2008 9:53 pmwow. i had no idea doodling was called moleskin art.
i do some random stuff too like this :)
Sebastian Waters
January 9th, 2009 3:38 pmA 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.
Conny
January 11th, 2009 9:45 amThis 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…)
Marina
February 3rd, 2009 7:10 amI have a moleskine and love it!
MegaFill
February 25th, 2009 2:10 pmNice pictures!
pat
April 6th, 2009 8:33 pmAwesome!! Makes me want to get back to the drawing board.
nick devine
April 21st, 2009 8:41 pmsupeRad ! 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 !
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George riley
May 1st, 2009 10:54 amI’m just a 10 year old kid but I think the stuff is brilliant, I drew some stuff in my sketch book.
Jessica Baxter
July 3rd, 2009 4:26 pmI just got a sick retro white Moleskine cover at: http://www.molecover.com I love rocking it in my local coffee shop!
Rashmi
September 9th, 2009 8:38 pmi loved it!!! kudos to SM!!!! love your website! :)
Larry Gomez
October 3rd, 2009 7:07 amLove it!
Let’s see some more!
Christopher
January 21st, 2010 4:00 pmThat if this good I love the Moleskine.
Many of my drawings in my Moleskine.
look drawingstree.com/
lisa
February 21st, 2010 11:29 amwoah this is absolutely amazing.
Garrett Sheridan
May 20th, 2010 8:52 amI’ve put some of mine up on flickr if anyone wants to have a look. http://www.flickr.com/photos/garrettsheridan/sets/72157622341762484/
hoim
August 17th, 2010 2:19 pmpupu platter
Lacie
December 16th, 2010 8:58 pmTwo of those panels are digital illustrations with distressed textures applied, just fyi. (16 and 17)
But still neat.
allisonparel
July 28th, 2011 5:02 pmso inspiring! Ü
Lou
November 15th, 2011 8:50 amSooo many talented, cool, interesting people. You guys are screwing with my bitterness and cynicism. Stop this art madness you,you Moleskine.