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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.
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Moleskine Art Sketches and Drawings
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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October 22nd, 2008 3:15 pmPretty cool! (;
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October 22nd, 2008 3:21 pmwow
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October 22nd, 2008 3:22 pmThe coffee cup one is repeated twice. Nice collection though. :)
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October 22nd, 2008 3:26 pmwow – I like them…thanks SM I have now been inspired to try something new with my illustrations.
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October 22nd, 2008 3:53 pmLovely collection, really neat idea.
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October 22nd, 2008 4:06 pmfantastic sketching! makes me want to pick up my pencils and sketch pad again!
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October 22nd, 2008 6:22 pmi wonder if they r drawing on their bank book?
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October 22nd, 2008 6:36 pm@kai, uh no its their moleskine. a really extravagant notepad if u ask me.
these guys are fantastic.
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October 22nd, 2008 8:11 pmSome of them really look weird… and some of them really look Great
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October 22nd, 2008 9:08 pmI want to collection it.
and copy them to my sketch book. - 13
October 22nd, 2008 10:13 pmWow, now this is a great post. They’re all good, but this one is great. Fantastic compilation…
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October 22nd, 2008 10:57 pmoops, Skineart’s link was wrong :)
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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. - 16
October 22nd, 2008 11:00 pmcool man, I started to draw in my note book
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October 22nd, 2008 11:04 pmNumber 16 from top is awesome! I wish I could draw like this…
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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.
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October 22nd, 2008 11:50 pmVery inspiring stuff.
Makes me want to turn off this PC and go and draw! - 20
October 23rd, 2008 12:14 amhey, great resource,
error on the first link though to Skineart, its trying to find it within Smashing.
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October 23rd, 2008 12:22 amevery post has its own priority. i am loving and inspired by every post.
thanks a lot SM
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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
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October 23rd, 2008 1:03 amEinfach super genial.
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October 23rd, 2008 1:43 amDrooling over them… wish I am this artistic… Moleskine are too expensive anyway…
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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. - 26
October 23rd, 2008 3:41 amI love my moleskines. Its wonderful to see what other people do with theirs.
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October 23rd, 2008 4:37 amThese are REALLY amazing, each one of them! Hope that this kind of art will NEVER die…
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October 23rd, 2008 5:56 amGreat art.
More post’s like this. - 29
October 23rd, 2008 5:58 amI am super jealous of the doodling abilities in this post! What an awesome round-up.
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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
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October 23rd, 2008 6:27 amWhat fabulous and inspiring examples! I off to draw in mine now after filling up with eye candy!
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October 23rd, 2008 6:45 amnice collection.
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October 23rd, 2008 7:38 amlovely stuff
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October 23rd, 2008 8:26 am@Michael J. Hildebrand
Nice work. I like the pencil stuff, since I tend to draw with one color. - 35
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.
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October 23rd, 2008 9:28 amThere are some awesome sketches in this post :)
Excellent SM!
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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/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/ - 38
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 - 39
October 23rd, 2008 9:52 pmEcht genial. Da bekommt man wieder mal Lust im eigenen Moleskine zu schreiben.
Link [www.alexextra.com] - 40
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.
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October 24th, 2008 4:37 amMy dear friend Shellie Fiocca does some great abstract portrait work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missshellie/130316032/ - 42

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October 25th, 2008 3:34 amMoleskine rocks =)
http://www.maltegruhl.com
–> play/day to day; are my drawings. - 44
October 25th, 2008 8:58 amBeautiful :)
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October 25th, 2008 1:02 pmImpressive!!
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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!
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October 26th, 2008 3:15 amexcelent smashing
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October 26th, 2008 7:40 amAm I the only one who spotted the one that is very obviously NOT a Moleskine?
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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.
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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/ - 51
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. - 52
October 28th, 2008 9:28 amLovely!!!!!!!!! thank u!!
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October 29th, 2008 5:36 pmGreat collection! I’m a big fan of Moleskines for my own illustration work.
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October 31st, 2008 5:21 amit is incredible)) I like it!
я вот тоже иногда балуюсь – http://agrafena.name/o-sebe/191.html - 55
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.
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November 7th, 2008 1:01 ammoleskine paper sucks for sketching and drawing… even if the small books have a beautiful design:)
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November 10th, 2008 1:31 amwooow…that s real cool
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November 20th, 2008 5:23 pmgreat works!
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November 23rd, 2008 5:25 pmawesome! moleskine it up people. nothing like the beauiful expressiveness of humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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December 2nd, 2008 8:24 amgreat artwork
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December 14th, 2008 4:53 pmAndrea Joseph makes awesome doodles
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lmxbKs08saU/SSL0X_QTOnI/AAAAAAAABpY/BSGQVQW8t60/s1600-h/print.jpg
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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.
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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.
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December 30th, 2008 9:53 pmwow. i had no idea doodling was called moleskin art.
i do some random stuff too like this :) - 65
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.
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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…)
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February 3rd, 2009 7:10 amI have a moleskine and love it!
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February 25th, 2009 2:10 pmNice pictures!
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April 6th, 2009 8:33 pmAwesome!! Makes me want to get back to the drawing board.
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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 !
word
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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.
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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!
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September 9th, 2009 8:38 pmi loved it!!! kudos to SM!!!! love your website! :)
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October 3rd, 2009 7:07 amLove it!
Let’s see some more! - 75
January 21st, 2010 4:00 pmThat if this good I love the Moleskine.
Many of my drawings in my Moleskine.look drawingstree.com/
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