I’ve started to try being really organized with my drawings in the last year.  I think it would be a pretty valuable resource to have a personal catalog to look back to.  This basically means my drawings on 8.5×11″ paper are no longer discarded.  Instead my preferred treatment is this. I use those glossy paper holders and load up a bunch inside a three ring binder.  The binder is then labelled a year or season or some time based grouping.  Say Summer 2008.  Within that binder youll find a not necessarily neat, but at least organized jumbling of my papers.  To save money and space from having to have so many glossy holders, there’s usually 3-7 papers within each page holder.

Perhaps ill come back to these old small drawings for ideas in the future.  Perhaps if i’m teaching they’ll be a helpful thing to show students.  The quality of professional work to a youth may be alienating, yet if you can communicate with ‘em based upon your work from at that same point in life, maybe there will be more commonalities to discuss.

Here’s some example doodles from 2008.