moly_x_46 MONSTERS!!!

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2011-10-26T02:54:00.000-07:00

Hello moly friends,

i was wondering:
_who has got what?
_which books are finished?
_who has get his book back?

as for me i don't have any books nor mine..

?

2011-03-22T04:23:00.000-07:00

Hello moly friends,

hope you are fine!

It has been a long time since the last post,so i thought to make this one in case of any updates.
So who has got what?

ps.Quinn was active at flickr the other day but i have no news from her...

Kelly's Monsters

2010-11-09T07:33:00.000-08:00

As you can see I have added in the last monsters to Kelly's book and left a little room for you to finish it off and add in a background. Your book is amazing and will be on it's way home. Hopefully we get this group finished up soon as we were almost done.... mine apparently got lost in transit :(
Michael Nightmare

Knock, knock!

2010-09-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

Hello artists,

I thought I should introduce myself. Some of you may know me and others may not.

I'm Zaza, a.k.a. szaza or Samantha— but not Sam! I'll be your friendly neighbourhood Exchange Moderator. What does this mean? From time to time I will be performing a pulse check to see how your progress is going. Do you need some encouragement? Do hoarders need hounding? I will also pull the plug if you feel your exchange needs to go gently into that good night. If you have issues that need resolving, I am here to help in any way I can— please don't hesitate to ask.

I noticed there are some books with Quinn, and that she seems to have disappeared... does anyone have her contact information so I can send her an email? This fabulous exchange seems to have come to a grinding halt— do you all want to keep it going, or is it time to get books home to their owners?

There are two things we need to know before anything can continue— ok maybe three:

Who has whose Mollies?
Do you want in, or out? There is no shame in admitting you have a life and want to live it.
How do we contact Quinn?

Please respond to my post in the comments, and let's get this sorted out as soon as we can, ok?
My best,
Z

Anyone who can contact Quinn 68?

2010-09-03T03:01:00.001-07:00

I'm really sorry if this might sound rude, but I thik there's something to be sorted out here.

I last heard from Quinn 68 last April on Flickrmail. Then she assured she would have sent the 2 Molys she had to Esek (apparently the chain is stuck there, with Quinn), whose address she had lost and I gave her again. She also wrote she meant to leave the project.

Esek got no molys since then (mine is amongst them as well). So I tried to contact Quinn again a month ago, but got no answer.

So, Quinn 68 - if you still there, could you please contact us and give us news? Thanks. I do hope everything is fine with you, and that you're still willing to collaborate in the exchange in some way or the other.

Plus - if anyone has any other way to contact Quinn, would you do that? I'm afraid all Molys will get stuck otherwise.

Thank you everyone. And again sorry if this sounds unpolite - I do not mean to be 'rude', but just to understand where are we getting at with this exchange.

Bye,

B

QUINN's BOOK HEADING BACK TO QUINN

2010-08-26T07:49:00.000-07:00

Quinn's book is finished! I had forgotten that I was the last to work on this-and then it kind of blew me away! We came all the way around, and for me, its the first time Ive seen a book completed. Its been a while since we started, its funny to think of where I lived, what I was doing when we began. Time to go home, for this sketchbook!

Are u still there?

2010-07-08T04:10:00.000-07:00

Guys,

Are you still there? I miss my Moly...and I miss drawing for you! :)

Pls send us news!

B

Burger Monster

2010-05-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

oH!
sorry for being that late with this one,
here you have the entry, this is Kelley's moly, I wanted to upload the whole moly also but this thing is wot? kILoMeTriC!

hehe, hope you like, im going to send this to Michael if he does an entry this moly will be full
ok?

regards

Ink Monsters

2010-03-30T18:00:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I had a long mental and artistic block. Finally I found my inspiration and I made little family of ink-monsters in Jessica’s Moleskine. I am ready to send it to Josh. I also have Josh’s book. I am still working on it ;)

Who's got What?

2010-03-12T06:35:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

I thought about sending this quick enquiry post: who's got what? Since things are getting a bit slow lately, it could perhaps be good to virtually gather up and let each other know about the Moly/Molys we have.

I'll start: I've no Moly at the moment, having sent Kelly's one to FX (Jose); and I haven't any news about my own moly.

Hope to read you soon!

Best to all of you,

*B*

Molys????

2010-01-06T22:33:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Just thought I would check in and see how we are all doing. Our group was running so smoothly but it seems we have more or less come to a stand still. Who has books? Do we all want to keep going and finish it up?

Also havn't seen my book for a while? Lady Orlando if your still around do you have it????

Sea Monsters Parade

2009-12-04T16:32:00.000-08:00

I am ready to send Esek_one’s book to Josh.
I am very sorry for delay.

Updates

2009-11-25T10:38:00.000-08:00

Who has who's book? Are any back in the owners hands? I know we are close to finishing. I say we get them done before the holiday season gets too crazy. Remember that Yoda is out so any books that should go to her should go to me who ever mails to her.
Thanks.

it's almost done...

2009-11-19T14:31:00.001-08:00

It's actually further along than even this picture shows...I've colored in all the characters...all that's left is the grass and it's on it's way to Ekaterina. I will post a finished version, but I could not hold this back any longer. Heh heh, every time I look at this that fruit hat makes me smile. That, and I get this crazy urge for a Mai Tai....let's all have some rum and call it a party, LOL!

Let's start a new exchange

2009-11-17T10:27:00.000-08:00

Back in November 2008 i had started a project named ''the cahier project'' based on the idea of art exchange. Unfortunately the project got dead due to the loss of my cahier moleskine.Today i am about to begin something like ''the cahier project volume 2'' taking the risk for second time.If anyone from here would like to join this project please send me a flickr mail or an email at esek_one@hotmail.com or just reply here.

We are going to use a cahier moleskine,i encourage you to start your own,where each artist will leave his own mark.The subject of the entry it could be some sketches,doodles,words,a favorite song or poem,your name or the date you got it,it could be everything.I don't care if this will be named ''the cahier project volume 2''.if there is any response from you i may contact Marty Harris from moly_x in order to make this exchange a part of moly_x.

Take care,

esek_one

back again

2009-10-31T12:58:00.000-07:00

I am happy to be back but i am so sorry for the delay.

Here is my entry on Kelley's moly.

I am going to post it to Beatrice on Monday morning hope that nothing has changed with her address...

Teaser...

2009-10-27T14:28:00.000-07:00

It's not nearly done...but I am having too much fun with this and I just couldn't resist :)

Banana Monster!!!

2009-10-21T10:34:00.001-07:00

Here is my entry into Lars Powdery's moly it is an amazing book and the flow from one entry to the other is awesome! Kelly it will be on it's way to you today!!!!

Katya, you better watch out...

2009-10-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

...there are more monsters coming your way.

Quinn, I hope you like it...we have one very green monster and one character who is quite a little monster, what with the farting and the picking of his nose, LOL

I am back!

2009-09-08T22:36:00.000-07:00

Hi, everybody!
I have returned from my long summer trip to Russia and Sweden. And I have received Esek's Moly from Kelley. I am ready to work again!

Katya=k239

book update

2009-08-24T20:37:00.001-07:00

Just got Josh's book from Yoda. And it is an amazing book!!!

Hello

2009-07-29T18:43:00.000-07:00

Hello my monster friends

I still have Michael Nightamre's moly and Ekaterina's on my hans. I won't be able to post them until next month (soon now) and after that I won't be able to continue on the exchange.

I'll be moving from my country and won't be able to keep on track.

I hope everyone is fine

Kisses

Yoda

Epic in Scope

2009-07-22T13:05:00.001-07:00

Hey Hello Monster Moleskine Crew

Bea's moleskine here, lot of fun, playful energy abounding. I tried my best to curtail my more horrendus monsters, Beatrice, I hope you like them.

Ive left lots of room, this moleskines been great for its interactivity and the oppurtunities still available for it. And I hope nobody minds, but part of how i worked this time was adding color in various spots.

Heres the whole thing, the book in total...I think theres 2(?) more people and then its back to Italy!!

Heres the majority of my contribution

And some details

I've Moved!!!

2009-07-14T15:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody, I've already emailed Michael and given him my new mailing address but I just wanted to post an announcement that I've moved on the off chance someone else needs to mail me something. :) If so, please just email me for my address. thanks.

Hell-yeah

2009-07-12T03:38:00.000-07:00

My entry on Ekaterina's moly,
the photo is horribol, and I forgot to take an acurate pic of Beatrice's part, if someone next in line could do that, so she can keep a good image of it =)

cheers

Quinn68's Monsters

2009-07-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

Finally finished Quinn's book. Thanks for hanging in there Kelly. I will have no more monster books for this group for now. It also looks like after Kelly it has only two more trips before it is back to you Quinn and or monster group is fastly coming to an end.

Ekaterina's Moly's ready.

2009-06-28T08:34:00.000-07:00

Hi, there!

I've finished my entry in Ekaterina's Moly - sorry it took me so long, but I'm crazily busy! :(

I cannot scan the pic nor publish it. Apologize!

I'm sending the Moly to Jose Antonio next week [as always, JA, let me know when you get it pls!].

Best,

*B*

PS What about Esek_one? Bill, where are you? :)

Bea's Book

2009-06-20T01:20:00.000-07:00

I am leaving for the summer this Sunday June 21. I finished my entry for Bea and will send the book to Josh tomorrow.

Have nice summer!

Monsters at the beach...

2009-06-07T16:15:00.000-07:00

Well...Michael left with me with a "sandy" sort of lead - in, LOL, and then he gave me an idea of a sand castle...so I guess I went a little overboard with the beach themed monsters, but honestly what else would you expect from a girl in sunny California, right?

Esek, I hope you like this entry, it's been of of my favorites so far :) And forgive the blurry photos below, but I wanted you to get a sense of how far your book has progressed.

Fishes, fishers, puddings, monsters

2009-06-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, here is my entry on Josh's moly, hope you like it

:), its on the way to Lady Orlando now

esek_one's Moly

2009-05-27T19:39:00.001-07:00

esek_one's moly is finished and will be heading your way Kelly.

Yodas Moleskine

2009-05-27T09:44:00.001-07:00

Allons-y

2009-05-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

My entry on Quinn 68 moly :)

More Images

2009-05-25T05:22:00.001-07:00

Kelly's moleskin finished

2009-05-25T05:14:00.000-07:00

finally I have finished Kelly's moleskin, thank you all for being so patient. Will be on it's way to Esek after the bank holiday!

Slow - too slow?

2009-05-24T00:50:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

I want to apologise for being so slow lately. I still have Ekaterina's Moly with me and I haven't worked on it yet.

Life's going on crazily these months, and I'm so busy I can't even think properly about the million of things I'm doing. So sorry about that!

I still want to be involved, and I hope that my delay doesn't bother you too much. However, if it is the case and if you want me to leave the xchange, I'll understand. But, pleeeeaaaaase, just keep me in! :D

Bye bye and read you soon,

Bea

2009-05-16T03:34:00.000-07:00

Hi again,

I just wanted to add that all the work is looking amazing so far!

Jess

2009-05-16T03:22:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

I have just been contacted by Josh through flickre, I wanted to apologise for being so slow, I am in the midst of a difficult separation plus started a new job.....so not a lot of time. I am happy to carry on and will do my best to speed things up but I said to Josh that if any or all of you feel I am slowing things up too much I will not be offended if you would rather I drop out of this exchange. In the mean time I hope to finish katarinas moly this weekend and have it posted mon/tues......also complete ditz, I've lost your address again esek, so will need you to send it again!

So all the Best to everyone

Jess

BANNER

2009-05-15T14:17:00.001-07:00

Hey Now. You know how when you got plenty to do you wind up doing something that doesnt need to be done instead? Thats what happened here. I made a banner. Anybody have any objections to me putting it up? I think probably the red one. Those among you might derive pleasure from the fact that a majority of this was done during briefings and meetings. Makes me happy at least.

Moly's!

2009-05-14T18:49:00.001-07:00

Are all molies accounted for??? Does everyone know where your book is at the moment?
Everything seems to be moving pretty smoothly for such a large group it's great!

Bea's Book

2009-05-13T23:23:00.000-07:00

Bea, your book is full of cute monsters....so I had to of course add some more :) And it appears your book has taken on a space theme which was really the main inspiration for my entry. If you've never heard of the Steve Miller Band, go check out th is song, the Joker, LOL....I couldn't resist.

Beatrice Moly

2009-05-04T09:45:00.000-07:00

Ok so here is a better image of Beatrice moly. It includes the full overview and then what I added to it.
and to encourage a little more interaction with each others artwork I have hidden some a group of bandit monsters within the book.

Beatrice Moly

2009-05-02T12:42:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick snap shot from my iphone of part of what i've worked into Beatrice moly.
I hope you like it and it will be mailed out to Kelly on Monday.

Michael Nightmares book ready to leave me forever

2009-04-30T16:41:00.000-07:00

Its always a little sad to see them go. Ive been playing with this one, in a stop and start way, for 3 months, give or take. But its time to go now. I hope you enjoy it, I had fun working on it.

Here we have the Frankenstein version, I took photos from the blog and pasted them together to give the full view up to this point:

And then heres a crop with what Ive been up to:

Two little Monsters for Lady Orlando Book

2009-04-24T20:05:00.001-07:00

Hello everybody,

I am so sorry I was mute for a long time. My computer was broken. This week I fixed it and I scanned Yoda's Moleskine that I had for long time. I am ready to send it.

Josh's Moly ready to fly to Spain

2009-04-13T06:22:00.000-07:00

Hi!

I've actually finished my entry in Josh's Moly almost one month ago, but I haven't sent it around yet. My fault, which I hope you'll understand (I wasn't home for a while).

Now I've put the Moly in its small yellow postal package and I've put Jose Antonio's address on - so the Moly is ready to fly to Spain now. I'll have it sent by Wednesday at the latest.

As always, I'll appreciate Jose Antonio's confirmation of arrival when the packet reaches his letter box. :)

Bye bye,

*B*

Still in - but very soory for the delay!

2009-04-01T11:22:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

I send you a few lines just to tell that I'm still into the project and very motivated as always. However, I've been very busy at work lately, which explains my delay in drawing and sending out the Molys.

I'll get back to you asap with my entries.

Bye!

*B*

Morning Monster

2009-03-09T16:27:00.000-07:00

Hello to you all :)

Here's my entry for ese_one's moly.

Hope you like it :)

molymonsters

2009-03-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

Here is my entry for Beatrice's moly. I'm sorry I didn't edit the image. I don't have corel or photoshop or anything like that in my pc right now :(

I'll send if to Michael this week :)

Michaelnightmares moly

2009-02-27T23:06:00.000-08:00

Hi, there!
I am back. I will send Michaelnightmares Moly to Josh tomorrow.

Ekaterina's Moly is here in Italy

2009-02-20T15:50:00.000-08:00

Hi, there!

As often, a very quick note just to inform you that I got Ekaterina's Moly from Esek. I promise I'll do my best to add very soon my entry to this gorgeous book - although I'm afraid I won't be able to match such beautiful entries!

*B*

Moly are moving :D

2009-02-08T11:09:00.000-08:00

I've been busy lately and had only will and time to do sketches for my own, ill confess I've been also bit lazy with the exchange, couldnt find a time to do it properly and relaxed, also I had two molys together to do and not many ideas, but, finally I came out of the lazyness and did my entrys :D
I think it went pretty good, im happy with the looks of the books, I did 4+ pages on both and left some goodies around, you'll find when the books get to you, you are encouraged like always to mess with my drawings, add stuff on top or anything you like

Jesse's MolyI did a bit more happy/child entry on Jesse's moly, I thought I would continue with the carpet thingy esek and beatrice did, and tho it dosnt show on the scan I did a bit more on the fifth page, a couple of little animals

Esek's Moly
On Esek's moly I did bit more agressive/adult entry, but I think it has a lot of humour aswell, I wanted to do a sucubi thingy eating beatrice's style monsters and also the monsters arming and reagrouping around to fight back, on the 4rth page I sketches a bit of something lady orlando can use to keep with the background or just discard, its kind of a mushroom forest

This is how the books look now more or less:
this weekend I sent Esek's moly to Lady orlando, next week ill send Jesse's moly so the molys get separated again so everybody can do the entries with a bit more of time

Hope you like my entrys, cheers for all

Ekaterina's moly ready to set off for Italy

2009-02-02T14:40:00.000-08:00

I have just finished my entry...

Here is the story so far:

p.s: Beatrice could you please send me your home address..sorry but i lost it :(

have fun,
esek_one

Finished my entry in Josh's Moly

2009-02-01T07:30:00.001-08:00

Hi, there!

I've just finished my entry in Josh's Moly. I'm sorry but I can't post the picture, for I cannot scan it by now.

Anyway, the entry features a big tropical fish (Napoleon) and two monsters swimming around it and observing it! :) There are also an octopus, a couple of starfish, some little fish, corals and algae!

I hope I can add the picture very soon!

*B*

Collage Town

2009-01-22T10:23:00.000-08:00

So I finished this one and i gotta say, it makes me laugh.
Kelly and Ekaterina both had dimensional elements in this moly, Kelly had glued her charecters on top of her painted background and Ekaterina has an interesting dimensional rainbow effect...that im not sure how she got...but its very cool. So after some thinking i figured id do a collage. It took longer than i expected, but im glad i did it.
The image is a mix of found images and drawings i made, all comped together in photoshop, and finally stained with some coffee, for that personal touch

Where are molys are

2009-01-17T09:34:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone.
In my other group (moly38) we have on our side bar a list of who has who's moly and the
status of them like working on it or mailed out. I added that to ours because it has been
great to see who has what and where. Please add your name and whos book you have or mailed out or if your waiting for one.
All you have to do is click the little tools icon by it and it will open a window for you to add the info

finished!!!!!!

2009-01-17T02:02:00.001-08:00

Here at last is my finished entry in Ekatrina's moleskin, again apologies to you all but family obligations have been slightly overwhelming this season. Was posted to you Esek yesterday.
all the best Jess

Josh's Moly (via Jesse and Bill) is in Italy

2009-01-16T05:04:00.000-08:00

Quick note to inform those who are concerned that Josh's Moly is here. I cannot explain how amazing it looks- for those who haven't seen it/worked on it yet, well...you got to have it yourself in your own hands to understand! Great! I'll draw four pages, then, since Kevin is not in the group anymore.

Bye!

*B*

News from the front

2009-01-11T01:56:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I recieved a flickr mail from Kevin,
The goods news is that he recieved my book and it will be traveling to lady orlando soon
and the bad news is that he cant keep with the exchange. Because of work he has to do a bunch of long travels and wont have a permament mail direction.
I think this was quite unexpected cause I had some talks with him before and he was all in for the exchange

So, ill be sending BF664's moly to Lady orlando (lucky I didnt send it yet) in the next days and we should look for a fix, which I think in this moment we rather do a bit more pages or something than put in a new member or whatever, what do you guys think?

Molys to Spain

2009-01-08T01:44:00.000-08:00

A short note, just to let Cirus/Jose Antonio know that Jesse and Esek's Molys are flying to Spain. You should get them within four/five days. Please let me know when you got them.

*B*

Happy New Year, everyone!

2008-12-31T09:35:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to write a post to say Happy New Year to everyone. Wherever you are celebrating, I wish you all good times and fun parties with family and friends. Stay safe and make sure to avoid all the wack-o's out there.... well unless you are one of the wack-o's then I don't know what to tell you :P

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for a great moly experience...this is the first exchange I joined and so far the most reliable. I am in a total of four at this point and getting frustrated with a few of the others. People just seem to be dropping like flies and the rest of us get left wondering what the devil is going on. So thank you to everyone for posting regularly and creating such a fun experience for a newbie :)

Because the other exchanges have made me paranoid I just wanted to ask...is dibujos! aka Kevin still with us? I don't remember seeing a post from him and was just curious if anyone knew his status. Seeing as there are so many of us in this exchange, I'm sure it's easy to get lost sometimes....Just thought I'd ask.

Hope everyone has fun tonight! Stay safe and Happy 2009 to all of you!! Woo hoo!!

Bf66's Entry in Bill/EsekOne' s Moly

2008-12-31T07:03:00.000-08:00

Me again!

Today I finished my entry in Bill's Moly, so I'm posting it as well.

I decided to keep some elements from Bill, 'copying' them but using them differently: the idea of the insect eaters; the little butterflies and the flowers, drawn 'in Bill's style'; the little green 'swarming' points.

So you have a nice couple of bean monsters enjoying a picnic out on a sunny day. One of the monsters is trying to catch butterflies for the breakfast; the other is making a butterfly-butter&bread snack. In the meanwhile, a little monster kid's inspecting a worm with a magnifying glass.

I used fibre pens, pencils and 'pencil dust' (I don't know how to say it English: when you sharpen a pencil and use the sharpened bits of colour to draw a dusty background - tell me the name of this if you know, please).

I'm posting Bill's entry on his Moly as a 'reminder', and my entry!

Bill, tell me if you like it! I hope it!

*B*

To Bill: I'm afraid you forgot to put your adress on the fist page of you own Moly, under the indication 'in case of loss...' (a very important piece of info, I think). Would you mind if I do it for you? I have your complete address on the envelopes and I can manage Greek letters. If you allow me to do it, I'll do it.

Bf664's Entry in Jesse's Moly, with picture

2008-12-31T06:53:00.000-08:00

Hi, everyone! My scanner seems to have recovered, so I can finally post a picture of the entry I did some weeks ago in Jesse's Moly.

If you take a look at one of my older posts where I describe the drawing, you will be able to read an 'explanation'. Here I'm also posting the photo, so you have the whole thing.

I'm uploading Jesse's entry, than Jesse+Bill/Esek entries, then mine alone- which is the Xmas one.

Hope you like it!

*B*

2008-12-30T12:35:00.000-08:00

Hello there,

Josh's moleskine is ready to set off for Italy.I have just finished my entry...
Here is a preview of my work:

and here is a preview of Josh's moleskine until now:

hope you like it..
my best wishes for the new year!!,
esek_one

Molyxmas

2008-12-28T12:18:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, been having a bit of vacations from work and from everything, but im back into business
So I finished my entry on Beatrice's moly and ill be sending it to Kevin around this next weekend
Gotta ask him if he recieved my moly already, it should be about to arrive =)
Hope that you Beatrice / BF664 likes what I tried on there, the pics arent really awesome quality but I thought I would break a bit the monster continuity a bit with some new elements, well actually I didnt know what I wanted to do but it came like this :P, i've left some stuff unpainted if someone wants to give it more work later on

have a nice new year all

japan

2008-12-21T19:33:00.001-08:00

Hi, everyone,
Tomorrow I will fly to Japan for 4 weeks. I did not finish Michael’s moleskine. I also have LadyOrlando’s moly. They will fly with me. I hope we will meet some Japanese monsters. Happy Holidays!

Entry in Jessica's Moly

2008-12-20T03:34:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

I've completed my entry in Jessica's Moly (which also features Esek's drawing), but I'm not able to post any picture of it. My scanner doesn't work anymore (I'm getting mad at it and I think I'll smash the damn thing up soon!), so I just can't send you any preview of how the Moly looks so far.

Anyway, I'll try to describe the entry. Given the fact that it's almost Xmas and all this enjoyable atmosphere's around, I got carried away by it. So I have drawn a spooky Father Xmas bringing his sack with presents. The sack is ripped and some presents have fallen and they're quequeing behind Santa Claus: a yellow bean monster, two haunted gift boxes hitting each other with candy sticks, a lollypop licking a puppet boy on the face and more other cute/spooky characters.

I've tried to keep two elements from Jessica and Esek's entries: the horizontal quequeing of the characters (Jesse and Esek) and the purple carpet (Esek). If you take a look at the pictures of they're entries you'll see what I mean.

That's all. Happy vacations to all of you!

*B*

PS Of course, J's Moly'll be sent very soon to Cirus.

Josh's moleskine here in Greece

2008-12-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

I received today Josh's moleskine via Jessica.
The artwork until now is gorgeous and you have to see it by your own in order to understand this..
I don't have any ideas yet about what i am going to draw next to Jessica's work..
Let's see:)

Yoda's moly book is getting some bling, baby!

2008-12-08T00:03:00.000-08:00

So upon receiving Lady Orlando's book from Michael Nightmare, I noticed something very humorous. It seems Mr. Nightmare decided to pull out the ol' gold pen and put a few gold caps on his ghosts. I, of course thought this was hysterical, but put it out of mind and got to drawing my entry. I decided at the beginning of my entry to use minimal colors and to leave the background open in a similar fashion to both Yoda and Michael, which is something I don't normally do, but I must admit I am pleased with the results.

Anywoo...as I was nearing the end of my shading and coloring in, I looked back over Yoda's book and those gold teeth kept popping out at me. Making me smile and I thought you know what? One of my monsters needs some gold chompers too. Only, me being me, and my sick sense of humor I took it a step further and gave my little guy a diamond grill, LOL. Yoda, I hope you get as much of a kick out of this as I did...because those four little rhinestones were a pain in the butt! LOL. Here, for your enjoyment is a close up of the grill, hee hee...

Ekaterina's Moly arrives via Josh

2008-12-06T12:05:00.000-08:00

Ekaterina's lovely book has arrived with Josh's addition, it looks great, Josh also illustrated the envelope, which I have included in the picture.
Esek-one I forgot to say Josh's book is on its way to you, posted about three days ago!
I love the hot colours and delicate gold in Ekaterina's book and Josh's little people.........so will have to think about what to add to this?

Jess

Lady Orlando's Moly arrived safe and sound...

2008-11-30T13:36:00.000-08:00

Just an update... I received Lady Orlando's moly in the mail on Friday from Mr. Nightmare (by the way - coolest last name ever!) and was so surprised at the artwork in front of me. Seeing these molies online and looking at the screen does absolutely nothing for the subtlety when holding them in your hands.

Yoda, I don't know how you did it...but those hatch marks on the ghosts are just beautiful. I am both mesmerized and completely jealous....I've no idea how to shade ghosts, lol.

And Michael...oh my goodness, I am stumped on how to incorporate those smooth feathery-like lines into my portion of the artwork. They are just gorgeous up close, I am torn on whether to use them in my piece or find a way to transition away from them....hmmmmm...too many decisions. Hee hee.

My entry in Josh's moleskin!

2008-11-30T12:09:00.000-08:00

Sorry it has taken me a while, it's a little more nerve wracking adding to someone Else's moleskin but I got there in the end. Here are my monsters, a kind of mummy monster leading her offspring to whatever may be going on through the following pages?
Very grey days mean it's difficult to get a nice picture so I took a few!

I am also unsure as to whom I am sending Josh's moleskin to now, if anyone knows can you send me details, thank you very much.

Jessica's Moly's here in Italy

2008-11-30T03:23:00.000-08:00

I received Jessica's Moly yesterday. Her drawing, plus Esek's entry, are amazingly beautiful.

So far, I've got two journals in my hands and I should start working on them asap - I believe. I got so many images floating in my head that I'm not able to make up my mind! :)

Again, I'm really happy to be part of this group, which seems to be going on nicely! Thanks Bill for strarting it - thank you all for joining!

Bye,

*B*

Cute monsters for Kelley

2008-11-25T22:08:00.001-08:00

I have finished my entry in Kelley's moleskine. I am ready to send it to Larspowderdry by his new address, right?

my entry on Jessica's moly

2008-11-23T13:50:00.000-08:00

Hello there,

Jessica's moleskine is ready to set off for Italy.I have just finished my entry...
Here is a preview of my work:
and here is a preview of Jessica's moleskine until now:

have fun,
esek_one

New Address

2008-11-22T16:48:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone, hope things are good all around. I moved all my worldly belongings today and have a new address. It is
550 Jefferson Ave
Brooklyn NY 11221
The above image, ill admit, doesnt exactly have a ton to do with packing and moving, but hes in the process of motion, and im away from any scanning devices...so i raided an old moleskine drawing...cuz a post needs an image, in my world.
(PS Sorry for the repeat message to those of you in my other blogs)

Lady Orlando's Monsters

2008-11-21T18:34:00.000-08:00

I have finished my first entry in one of our members moly's. I hope you like it yoda.
Lady orlando on the left and mine on the right starting with the masked purple guy.

2008-11-20T17:18:00.001-08:00

Hi, everyone!

I have received Michael’s moly from Kelley today. Now I have two molys for this exchange. It makes me a little bit nerves. I still have only line drawing in Kelley’s moly.

And I have a question: this exchange will work only if we have full circle. Did anybody contact Kevin from Colombia? Is he still with us? Hi did not post anything here.

More Monsters

2008-11-19T07:29:00.000-08:00

Hello! I figured I'd put a three part post up

this is faze one in the process, ekaterina's excellent silkscreen(?) to the right and my marker color shapes that are attempting to emulate her orange background

and then come the monsters

and finally the entirety of the moleskine

wow!!!

2008-11-18T04:10:00.000-08:00

I just got Jessica's moly...
She has done a really nice work..
I am happy,happy,happy to be in this group!!!

Mail surprise

2008-11-17T10:34:00.000-08:00

I recieved Bf664's notebook this week, and it looks very nice
I dont have a cam by now so there is no pic :p, but ill start working on it asap

The bad part, this weekend I couldnt send the notebook and my work schedule dosnt allow me to send it in the middle week (post offices around here close at 14:30, slackers..) so ill send it this saturday to Kevin =)

Michael's Moly Thus Far....

2008-11-14T20:37:00.000-08:00

Okay...so after getting Michael's moly last week, and noticing just how close we are geographically I had to make some sort of reference to the area. What better way than to include one of my monsters wearing a t-shirt from the so-called Happiest Place on Earth? (hee hee) Michael, I hope you like it. I tried to keep your bright color palette going, and even managed to bring your textured, swirly background over a bit farther. Sorry for the cut and paste job in Photoshop, but I wanted you to see it in all it's horizontal glory :)

‘What’s in your Moleskine’ Contest Deadline 11/14

2008-11-11T14:41:00.001-08:00

Promote yourself and moly_x. Enter your fabulous moly_x entries.

Moleskine, the heir to the legendary notebook, wants to know what’s inside your Moleskine! With over 140 different formats and styles, there are many different ways to use a Moleskine—to sketch, write, watercolor, reflect, collage, collect mementos and as photo albums.

In celebration of creativity and imagination, Moleskine is looking for readers to share photos and comments about their Moleskines. Email pictures of what’s in your Moleskine to webmaster@chroniclebooks.com with the subject line “MOLESKINE.”

Five submissions will be randomly selected to receive a Free Moleskine Pack of Notebooks. The pack will include a Pocket Ruled Notebook, a Pocket Sketchbook and a Pack of Plain Kraft Pocket Cahiers.

We’ll post the images on an upcoming post announcing the winners! Also check out our Facebook Company Page to see the latest entries. Entries must be submitted by Friday Nov 14th.

Fest of the Monsters

2008-11-11T12:18:00.000-08:00

Better late than never? I hope so ;)

By the way, presentation. My name is Josan, I live in Pineda, "near" Barcelona in Spain. Actually I work as designer for a client of Inditex (Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, etc), I'm 25 years old and thats pretty much all :p, this is my first exchange group tho I like this whole idea and im hoping to do a lot more.

With my entry I suggest the idea of a big dinning table all filled with monsters, so you are invited to follow the table but of course you guys are free to do anything you feel like

This friday or so ill go to the post office and send the book to Kevin ;), and I should be recieving BF664's book soon enough

Michael's Moly

2008-11-08T19:59:00.001-08:00

I finally got a moly in the mail! Woo hoo! Michael's moly arrived yesterday afternoon and I've spent the day, off and on, contemplating what I want to draw :) Love the colors Michael!! And I didn't realize we were so close geographically, what a funny coincidence.

Round one

2008-11-08T01:22:00.000-08:00

I thought to collect all the entries of the first round until now here.
Waiting for the rest,but take your time :)

Lady Orlando from Mexico

ilovetodoodle from USA

esek_one from Greece

Larspowderdry from USA

K239 from USA

Quinn68 from UK

MichaelNightmare from USA

bf664 from Italy

muevelapescueza from Spain

Bill's Moly's in Italy

2008-11-07T05:48:00.000-08:00

Just a short note to inform that Esek_one's Moly is here in Italy! Great! Bill's entry is absolutely amazing (even more than it seemed in picture) and very original. I'm starting to plan my drawing to be made next to his on the Moly.

Any news from the other members of the group?

Bf664

My Moly, ready to fly to Spain...

2008-11-01T02:48:00.000-07:00

Hi, everyone!

Here it is my entry in my own Moly (sorry for the bad quality of the scanned image). I know it's very simple, but I like very simple but colourful things. The title of this drawing is: "It's time to connect our monstrous bits". Just imagine the spooky inhabitants of all our brains, hands, ears, eyes,...all trying to assemble, all struggling to reach for each other, all moving and transforming...and then again separating and going for other bits somewhere else! :)

Hope you like it.

Anyway, I'm going to give it a final hand of colour and then I'm sending it to Cirus on next Monday (post offices are closed this weekend here).

Bye,

bf664

monster mash

2008-10-31T08:24:00.000-07:00

Here is my start to my monster moly. With all the great work so far I am excited to see what everyone does in mine and everyone else I hope its up to par with the rest of yours. I may or may not work on it a little more I have not decided. Please give me your opinions.

2008-10-31T05:23:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, finally finished, I was so tired last night I accidently filled four pages, didn't realise my mistake until it was too late!
I don't think this will be a problem as there are still three pages each, sorry about this!

I'm not sure who the monsters are in my picture, maybe all of them! the princess has organised a tea party but the monsters were not invited to this halloween treat and Sylvie has been asked to protect the princess........but Sylvie looks pale maybe bewitched.......will she use that dagger or will she show mercy?........is the princess serving up spells and potions at her tea party? or is she really an innocent victim?.....I've no idea so this is on it's way to you Esek.

Ready to send

2008-10-30T21:42:00.000-07:00

Silkscreen print

For American people it is probably boring. But for newcomers like me it is very exiting. So I choose Halloween monsters for my first entry.

The God Hour

2008-10-30T15:13:00.000-07:00

Hello errybody! I went at this late into the morning hours, it was all kinda freeform, and Im pretty happy with it.

esek_one's monsters travelling to Italy

2008-10-27T16:00:00.000-07:00

Hello there,

my moleskine is ready to set off for Italy.I have just finished my entry...
Here is a preview of my work:

i am waiting for your entries!!

Have fun,
esek_one

My first attempt went....errrrr, okay.

2008-10-23T09:32:00.000-07:00

So...this is what I have so far. I made a HUGE mistake in my moly...I drew my sketch in pencil, inked it in and was just loving my little characters and then I thought, you know I'm gonna try something new - and I hated it!! So I had to try and figure out how to fix my huge brain fart...Ultimately I redrew the characters on watercolor paper and pasted them over a dark, ink and watercolor sky, I'm still fixing my background and there is actually one more character that you can't see, but maybe he'll be a surprise to all of you when you get my book :)

Also if you look very closely at the right had side you can still see a bit of the green monster who has vanished into the night, hee hee.

hows everyone....

2008-10-22T21:38:00.000-07:00

Doing on their monsters??? Anyone else finished or updates to post? I am almost finished with mine hopefully the end of the week. Let's keep this blog active!

MAIL OUT ORDER SET UP

2008-10-15T21:49:00.000-07:00

OK the moment everyone has been waiting for the list for the mailing order is posted on the right sidebar. Look to see who you are assigned to and contact them for their REAL name and mailing address. I tried to get everyone to mail out to the closest person to you. Some of you may be mailing out somewhere far. If there are any questions please let me know.

I never did hear from dibujos so I assume he is from colombia and is still participating anyone heard from him????

Please try to have yours finished by OCTOBER 31st for the first round mail out and also post pictures up of them as well!!!

mail out order

2008-10-10T05:51:00.000-07:00

dibujos, bf664 and k239 I still need your info please get it to me
so I can finalize our mail out order
Thanks

to end the confusion on mail out order if everyone wants to message me
on flickr (michael nightmare) I will make the list and post it on the side bar
I will try to make it so everyone is mailing out to the closest person to them.

Little Max and the Spooky Jazz Trio

2008-10-09T12:21:00.000-07:00

Here is, are, my mosnters. I know they're not spooky at all but I always have problems with spooky things. I hope you all like them anyway :)

Now, I have to send this to...?

Introducing myself - ilovetodoodle

2008-10-08T10:14:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I'm Kelley also for the purposes of our exchange, ilovetodoodle. I live in Southern California, USA and work fulltime at a boring desk job while I search for that dream art job. I went to school and graduated in Illustration. While I know how to work with digital mediums, nothing can replace a pencil and paintbrush for me. I love the old school method, what can I say?

Most of my work is geared towards children's books, but I also really enjoy life drawing and getting my hands dirty while painting. Favorite medium? has to be watercolor. It's one of the most natural mediums for me and I absolutely love to blend and bleed my colors together...I wish oils were more like that.

I've got my moly started and the drawing is all hashed out...now I just need to get in their and add the color, which has always been the slowest part of my process. However, I am very excited about my first exchange, so I doubt I'll be able to keep myself away from it for long.

It's Me....Michael Nightmare

2008-10-08T05:29:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,
I go by the name of Michael Nightmare...its my cool artist name haha. I am an art education major which means I teach high school art... specifically photography. I love drawing as well even though its not my strong point in art but I strive everyday to get better and this whole moly exchange is really helping out a lot. I am looking forward to getting artwork from everyone in this group. I love using water color but I am also always trying new mediums.

as far as exchange order usually there is one order that everyone follows other wise some of us may end up with no moly at one point or too many at one point. The best way i've found to set the mail out order is by geographical location and by the first person to finish. The group leader in the end should decided on the order and post it on the side bar.