Doodles of March

sketchbook is life

I got a new pocket book to carry around and write and sketch whenever I feel like it. I thought I would adjust to using my iPhone to write down ideas and lines of dialogue for future stories, but it didn’t quite work out. Eventually, after many missed opportunities to make a note that I knew would be helpful later, I accepted I’m a paper person. More than that, I’m a notebook person. I like to have notebooks around to warm up to whatever I have to do, and to have all the daily progress under the same cover. When I look back at my sketchbooks, they represent parts of my life and they help transport my mind back to where I was at that time, what I was feeling, and what inspired each sketch, each doodle, each idea.

March is almost over. I have, throughout the pandemic, and maybe even a little before that, been overwhelmed with how fast the days are passing by, how fast we’re already three months into 2022, and a part of my brain still processes the present as a “very long 2020”. A pandemic year that’s already three years long, as if now we have to change the way we count the passing of time (like the summers and winters in Games of Thrones that lasted for years or even decades).

The stories I’m working on are moving forward. Bá and I discuss future ideas, and the mere fact that we’re having ideas and that we’re excited about both our current and future projects is already a sign that our little world is healing as the World tries to carry on while we navigate the strange tides of a not-quite-yet-post-pandemic-life.

Be safe. Be kind. Be curious.
Pa-ZOW!

Fábio Moon
Moon Base, São Paulo
March 28th, 2022