sketches – Art of Rob

Sketches 4

A page from my 2021 sketchbook

Sketch from a painting I did for The Center for Cultural Power (CultureStrike)

Sketch of Dr Muriel Petioni, mother of medicine in Harlem for BLK History Month

Sup with it fam, its been awhile since I shared some sketches from my process. I share process art a lot with different projects but sometimes I just love looking back at the sketches I made before painting some of my personal or client work. Sometimes the sketches are better than the final. Something about the energy in them.

Spreads from “I am Sausal Creek/ El Arroyo Sausal” written by Melissa Reyes and illustrated by me

Sketch for a painting of pioneering animator Brenda Banks for BLK History Month

Letters for the 15th anniversary of the Trust Your Struggle Collective

One of many color sketches I did for a sticker

A sketch for a UC Berkeley project “We Too Belong”

Wanna see more of my sketches?

Sketches 3

Sketches 2

A doodle from my sketchbook

A sketch from a picture book called “We Are Yoga/ Somos Yoga” written by Jill Guerra and illustrated by me

One last one, these are sketches for a sticker I did that reminds me to PAUSE.

Dig these sketches? Check out this video of my last sketchbook tour. Thx for tuning in. Sign up for my newsletter or follow me on Instagram.

April 24, 2023

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This is a sketch for a portrait of graffiti artist Spie

Sup with it fam, its been awhile since I shared some sketches from my process. I share process art a lot with different projects but sometimes I just love looking back at the sketches I made before painting some of my personal or client work. Sometimes the sketches are better than the final. Something about the energy in them.

This was for East Oakland’s “Street Level Health”

Chapter 510 (organization) sketch

Sketch from the book Sam! Published by Penny Candy Books

Curry sketch – Warriors

Wide sketch for “Asian Art Museum” in SF

For BLK History month 2021 – Little Richard

This is a sketch for “Orange Barrel Media” AD in Ohio

Here’s a self portrait I did many years ago

Sketch Postcard for “Sunrise Movement”

Sketch for Zumbi (Zion-I) RIP

Here’s a sketch from “Alejandria Fights Back” pub by Feminist press

Thanks for checking out the sketches. If you notice the majority of my sketches are on paper with pencil. In the last few years I have been using an I-pad pro increasingly to speed up the sketch process and move things around, so you’ll be seeing more of those sketches. If you dig these check out my sketchbook tour

video here

Here’s the last sketches post I made in 2018

July 22, 2022

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Hey fam, thank you for continuing to rock with me. Today is the day. My new kickstarter (my first since Furqan’s First Flat Top) is LIVE!!!!! Please follow the link to see the campaign and stay tuned for more updates and posts about what it is and why I’m doing it!

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October 31, 2021

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Sketches 1

What follows is a sketch dump of client, personal, and unused work. I like the sketches because sometimes the under drawing is better than the painting. And it shows the thinking that goes into the final lines.