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The wallet is 3.25 x 4.25″ and is made of high quality printed vinyl. The inside has an ID window pocket, a card pocket, and a money pocket for your cash. Each wallet comes with a small pencil and a 2.5 x 3.75″ replaceable sketchbook filled with drawing activities to prime the creative pump.
“Encouragement” will need to come from you, but we can help with the “fresh art supplies” and “inspiration” to make drawing fun and accessible. Each wallet comes with a replaceable sketchbook filled with tips, prompts, activities and more to get the creative juices flowing. Your artist will definitely come away with new skills and fun stuff to draw. There are also plenty of blank pages that will allow unguided creativity. Our small blank, toned, dot-grid and lined books also fit this wallet.
Many artists don’t begin to carry a sketchbook until they hit college age or older. Help the young artist in your life to develop this habit early, it will only help them get better. Drawing at a young age should only have one goal…it should be fun. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to dash their hopes and dreams later. Don’t get hung up on, “you drew the head too big,” or “the perspective is all wrong.” Criticism before they’re ready will squeeze the love right out of it. If they can keep drawing through middle school and into high school then they are probably ready for honest critiques. You’ll know because they’ll ask for it.
We’ve had this on the idea board for a couple years and thought it was time to make this thing. We have been trying several designs, interviewing young people, measuring pockets, checking out materials and so on. We love the final designs and know you will too.
The first wallet was designed by the ever-doodling Parker Jacobs. Parker has been posting his daily doodles for the past decade. You may recognize his work from Paul Frank Industries, Yo Gabba, Gabba, The Aquabats and Goon Holler. Parker has a bad habit of letting his domain names run out.
The second wallet was designed by Sketch Wallet creator Ralph Thomas. He’s proven that even a mediocre artist can make a living in illustration and has spent the last 10 years as a game artist. When he’s not drawing he’s found riding his trusty green bike, “the Bass-O-Matic™” or stealing Parkers websites (Exhibit A, Exibit B).
DRAWINGS 5 is a fresh new Art Book from illustrator Jake Parker. This is a beautifully printed 128 page full color book featuring a comprehensive collection of both finished and exploratory artworks by Jake from the last three years, including an exclusive SKULL CHASER comic made especially for it. You do not want to miss this! CLICK HERE!
If you love board games then check this out… Who Goes There? is a cooperative “growing paranoia” game for three to four players (expandable to six). I own the first version and it’s a super fun game. Who Goes There? is the book that inspired “The Thing” movie. So as you can imagine the further you get in the game, the more you don’t trust the others. CLICK HERE!
As much as I want to pretend there are no risks – there are. The good news is I’ve had several successful kickstarters. I’ve gotten better at flushing out potential problems and fixing them early. If there are issues I always communicate that to the backer and I’m very responsive to questions. I’ve worked with the same manufacturer for several years and we know the routine. Let’s make something awesome!