📒✨ 2017 Geek Sketchbook Recap

(December 2017)

2017 has been quite the year for sketches, doodles, and the occasional disastrous pen experiment. Looking back through my sketchbook, I see the thread that’s been running through it all: curiosity, fandom, and the persistent need to put pen to paper, even when life gets busy.

Highlights of the year:

• Breath of the Wild landscapes — a study in light, atmosphere, and the occasional Korok hiding in the corner.
• Wonder Woman fight scene sketches — attempts at capturing motion and confidence, and learning a lot in the process.
• JoJo pose practice — exaggerated anatomy and dramatic gestures that remind me why I fell in love with this series in the first place.
• Inktober — a month of structured chaos that pushed me to experiment and sometimes embrace imperfection.
• Stranger Things sketches — a nod to nostalgia, storytelling, and the joy of capturing characters who immediately feel alive.

Flipping through these pages, I’m struck by how much has changed since I first picked up a pencil decades ago — and yet, some things remain constant. The joy of observing, the thrill of experimentation, and the quiet satisfaction of creating something that didn’t exist before.

2017 was about embracing both new fandoms and old obsessions, and letting them shape my sketchbook in unexpected ways. Here’s to carrying that curiosity and discipline into 2018 — and to filling the pages with even more daring experiments, ridiculous poses, and perhaps a few more JoJo-inspired sketches.

— 🖊️ The Doodlecape Keeper