{"id":1888,"date":"2011-06-29T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T10:30:23","slug":"drawn-in-julia-rothman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/06\/29\/drawn-in-julia-rothman\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawn In \/ Julia Rothman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/5884673822\/\" title=\"Drawn In by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5072\/5884673822_bbaaaffb69_z.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Drawn In\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember how I gushed about my love of books on zines? <\/p>\n<p>Well get ready for another love \u2013 books on <em>sketchbooks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Julia&#8217;s latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1592536948\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=pikaland-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=217145&#38;creative=399373&#38;creativeASIN=1592536948\"><strong>Drawn In: A Peek into the Inspiring Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Cartoonists<\/strong><\/a> is a treasure trove of artists sketchbooks, all laid bare for you to drool over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/5884666010\/\" title=\"Drawn In by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5142\/5884666010_3943f98433_z.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Drawn In\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Meg Hunt&#8217;s sketchbook<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/5884665548\/\" title=\"Drawn In by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6060\/5884665548_d5f8496542_z.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Drawn In\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like a peek into one&#8217;s soul, artist&#8217;s sketchbooks are only shared among friends and lovers (and some not at all). Thoughts, dreams, ideas, techniques in various stages of experimentation can be found among their dog-eared pages. From <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/07\/28\/lauren-nassef\">Lauren Nassef&#8217;s<\/a> huge collection of drawings a day, to a selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/markmulroney.com\">Mark Mulroney&#8217;s<\/a> work (which Julia had to select carefully as there were lots of x-rated elements in there!); the book makes for an excellent gift for anyone who loves drawing things down.<\/p>\n<p>Part interview and largely a collection of sketchbooks from some of my favorite artists like <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/11\/25\/mike-lowerys-printed-fabric\">Mike Lowery<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/12\/11\/tad-carpenter\">Tad Carpenter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/08\/18\/artist-interview-katy-horan\">Katy Horan<\/a> among many others; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1592536948\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=pikaland-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=217145&#38;creative=399373&#38;creativeASIN=1592536948\"><strong>Drawn In<\/strong><\/a> is varied, beautiful and inspiring. And hopefully, flipping through the book will make you want to start a sketchbook of your own; or at least, return to it if the habit has been tossed aside for too long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/5884665332\/\" title=\"Drawn In by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5076\/5884665332_ca9aedc35b_z.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Drawn In\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/5884665750\/\" title=\"Drawn In by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5031\/5884665750_15f38db5a6_z.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Drawn In\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If you&#8217;re in New York, Julia is having a signing party and sketchbook exhibition starting 6pm on 30th June (that&#8217;s this Thursday!) at the Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book-by-its-cover.com\/events\/drawn-in-signing-party-sketchbook-exhibition-june-30th\">here<\/a> for more details!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Drawn In \/ Julia Rothman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/06\/29\/drawn-in-julia-rothman\/\" aria-label=\"More on Drawn In \/ Julia Rothman\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}