Yo Sketch Dawgs!

Yo Sketch Dawgs!
a
big thanks to all of you who checked out the new site
when it premiered a few weeks ago! It was great
fun to create and launch, and I hope you find it a useful
resource for inspiration, ideas and those
inevitable days when we all hit a creative
brick wall.
I’ve been hammered with emails asking,
“Whazzup with your sketches and the Green
Bay Packers?” Well, let’s see if I can answer
this burning question without offending
any of you who might be cheese heads
(qualifying the aforesaid statement by
pointing out that I am a life long, diehard
Minnesota Vikings fan).
Call me a purist, but I still draw my sketches
by hand to this day. A friend of mine
deduced that it is my doodling inner child
coming out to play. [Yeah, whatever.] Quite
frankly, the only “inner” thing about me is
my belly button. But, I digress.
Where was I? Oh yeah, the Packers. Right.
Okay, so a couple of years ago, the
combination of Sunday football, a few
blank sheets of paper and a No. 2 pencil,
turned into Monday morning sketches
posted at Memory Creators. One particular
Monday, I posted an irregular (okay,
obscene) amount of sketches and Shawna,
one of the home girls
a t M C , wo n d e re d
what had made the
previous Sunday so
prolific in the sketch
d e p a r t m e nt. [ I t is
i m p o r ta nt to n ote
at this juncture that
she is a Packers fan.]
Never one to pa s s
up an opportunity to
poke fun at a cheese
head, I explained to
her that the Packers
had been waxed
the day before by
the Colts and one of
layout: Becky Fleck photos: Tricia Ribble
Favre’s worst career
days resulted in one
of my most productive
sketch days. I managed to
state this with a straight face,
but inside I was suffering from a fit
of giggles. Shawna clearly failed to
see the humor and war was declared
for the rest of the football season.
[Good on ya mate if you are still with me
on this drawn out, little story.]
The wins and losses of any given Sunday
could be loosely gauged by the amount
of sketches that showed up on Monday
morning, becoming a standing joke at MC.
If the Packers lost, sketches were plentiful;
if the Vikings lost, I pouted and took a nap.
So there you have it—three degrees of
separation that gets you from football, to
wins and losses, to sketches.
Another question I’ve been asked is if the
full page pdf’s will still be available for you
to print. I hear y’all keep them in binders?
Very cool! The short answer is yes, and
individual jpeg images will also be posted
each month for downloading.
Once again, a big thanks to Stayce at
Memory Creators for housing my sketches
over the past two and a half years—
appreciate the free rent, girlfriend!
On the horizon, be looking for new 8”x8”
sketches, more card sketches, and the first
installment of ColorMaps. If you have ideas,
suggestions or requests, shoot me an email
at suggestions@pagemaps.com. If you’d
like to share your layouts and cards, attach
a scan or photo and jet that bad boy to
share@pagemaps.com. I really dig seeing
everyone’s work!
Here’s to creativity,
layout by Denine Zielinski
layouts by Lisa Moorefield
layout by Kathy Morgan
This month’s PageMaps
friends—Denine, Lisa,
Kathy and Jamie—
shared some rockin
layouts based on a
few of June’s sketch
collection. Thanks for
sharing your creativity!
layout by Jamie Tharpe