Susan Rudat's Moleskine art

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, July 14, 2008 10:25 AM | permalink

Susan Rudat regularly scans her warm, textured, dimensional pen-and-ink sketches to her Flickr site. Link (via 'skine.art.)

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#1 posted by buddy66 , July 14, 2008 11:39 AM

I really like this stuff, most of it. Direct, honest, unpretentious.

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#2 posted by Takuan , July 14, 2008 11:46 AM

that's impossible,I like it too

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#3 posted by gruben , July 14, 2008 12:58 PM

I like the drawings, but why is it necessary to label this stuff as "Moleskine art"? Would it not be the same if it was drawn in a sketchpad of a different brand?

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#4 posted by Mark Frauenfelder

, July 14, 2008 2:27 PM

"why is it necessary to label this stuff as 'Moleskine art?'"

It's not really necessary, but a lot of artists use Moleskines to sketch, and Susan does, too. It's just a way to say "notebook sketches," I guess.

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#5 posted by mallison , July 14, 2008 3:20 PM

Another great flicker site with scanned Moleskine sketches:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wagonized/

I really like this one because the artist is a teacher and she provides little stories about her sketches, like "doodles from the staff meeting" or "while students took a test," etc...

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#6 posted by Doug Nelson

, July 14, 2008 9:48 PM

"why is it necessary to label this stuff as 'Moleskine art?'"

It's called "pretention".

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#7 posted by Takuan , July 14, 2008 10:41 PM

nope, it only becomes pretention when someone says art done in a moleskin is somehow "better"

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#8 posted by Doug Nelson

, July 14, 2008 10:56 PM

"nope, it only becomes pretention when someone says art done in a moleskin is somehow "better""

i.e.: worth posting about on one of the most popular and influential blogs in the world?

You honestly think this would have been boinged if she drew on regular old paper?

SEOs regularly post articles about how to make linkbait. Art sites could just as easily post about how to get boinged (throw in some gears, draw it on exotic or trendy materials, mention Cory Doctorow somewhere, etc.)

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#9 posted by buddy66 , July 22, 2008 11:51 AM

@#8 Doug Nelson

If moleskine tablets weren't ten bucks apiece I'd say they were a dime a dozen. They ARE regular old (acid free) paper; do you think they're made out of mole skins?

I had a slew of them back in the day. They were ''beatnik books'' or ''journals.'' Hardly exotic; but ''trendy,'' yes — fifty years ago.

Why so snotty with bb? After all, it is their wall.

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#10 posted by Anonymous , November 22, 2008 3:12 PM

Part of the reason it is called Moleskine Art is because Rudat posts her work on a moleskine artwork website.
here it is:

http://www.skineart.com/