March 31, 2026 - I put together my first sketchbook in 2008. That first one was a random mess of stuff. A hodgepodge. But I really liked doing it. So in 2009 I made another. And then next year another. I liked the sort of “benchmark” aspect of it all. The thought that, this is 2010 and this the best work I did for myself this year. The first few weren’t themed, again, just a grab bag of whatever I had done that wasn’t for any clients. It wasn’t until my 2011 sketchbook, The Hidden People, that I managed to approach the thing that I’d been after. A collection of new, original work all on a theme. Not a hodgepodge. Not whatever scribbles I had leftover. A thoughtful and structured series of sketches and drawings centered around a single…