by RaShell on 2008-01-10
I hate them… I admire them. I envy them. They are as far and as unattainable as, say… clouds. People who can keep neat yet oh-so-artistically messy diaries-slash-sketchbooks. Oh, they’re sooooo coooool… The Real Doodling Gods… With their little dried flowers and hand-written poetry, ticket stubs surrounded by intricate vignettes and beautiful butterflies… Now, that’s what should be called scrapbooking (my major pet peeve, I’ll write about it someday), the real deal! All-natural, mind you! No shiny tchotchkes, just you and that intimidating white sheet of paper that you make beautiful with your sheer imagination, pen or pencil and some loose junk straight from the bottom of your pocketbook.
This strikingly beautiful Ukrainian lady who appropriately calls herself Moleska (she usually doodles in her Moleskine journals) is THE VERY BEST!
Check out her stuff in this community – ignore the Russian words, all you need to see is her amazing art!
You see, I can’t do that. I draw, I doodle, once in a while I use glue. But to do it page by page, without skipping, screwing-up, erasing, crumpling and throwing into trash? Unimaginable. I scribble, I mess up, I cringe! I can’t do it!!!!
What about you?
That really is beautiful work. I’ve never been any good at art fullstop
But I love art and if I could draw and doodle, I would want it to look like that! Maybe her work turns out because she doesn’t worry about messing up, if she does mess up, maybe she works with it until she makes something beautiful out of it. I don’t think you should throw any of your work out!
January 10, 2008 @ 11:50 pmI actually joined a Moleskine contest last year and used the Japanese album. I won 3 new ones as a consolation prize. My work was nowhere near the ones who won the top prizes so I was glad that I even won. The level is like that of the one you have up. Amazing, right?
I love people who doodle.
January 11, 2008 @ 3:02 amI agree, this is very impressive…
In fact if you gave me a whole book to scribble in i would get a high case of “i don’t know what to do”! I need small little white spaces like in between telephone book listings..
She is highly talented..
Nice post
January 11, 2008 @ 4:13 amI’ve always wanted to be a person who could do that. I seem to lack some essential confidence or flair or something. C’est la vie.
January 11, 2008 @ 10:11 amWow, I really like all of those, especially that last one. Your template kicks butt too!
January 11, 2008 @ 9:51 pmLooking forward to that peevish post about “scrapbooking”. These really are beautiful, and much more like the scrapbooks of the past which the current trend supposedly resurrected.
January 11, 2008 @ 10:54 pmI carry my Moleskine everywhere I go. But the pages are all blank….
*le sigh*
January 13, 2008 @ 12:21 amI think people who are that creative and organized all at the same time are using a part of the brain we don’t have any access to. On the optimistic side…you probably do something really cool that they can’t seem to muster, and could possibly even be envious of. Cool thought, huh?
January 13, 2008 @ 5:51 pmI know exactly what you mean. I’ve always wanted that organized yet beautifully messy way of things, but nope, I just don’t have it. My “scribble” journal (where i am allowed to write AND doodle) is very messy and not artistic. I’m afraid to buy a journal with any sort of cool-factor like a moleskin because I’d just be destroying it like a 6 year old who got into nail polish and poured it all over the book and inside the pages. (when one of my brothers was 3 he poured nail polish on my favorite un-glazed baked ceramic vase that I made)
(ps my website linked with my name is kinda ‘meh’ and sleeping right now so might not be worth going to)
January 14, 2008 @ 1:52 pm