Sketchbook

Most tracks start on paper. Before the patch, before the sample, there's a shape — a geometry of what the track should feel like. Sometimes the shape becomes a track. Often it stays a shape.

This is the full sketchbook, not curated. You'll find finished pieces, abandoned attempts, margin notes, and things I can't remember drawing.

19 sketches Dec 2024 — present graphite, ink, charcoal Brooklyn unfiltered

2025 / Sketchbook

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Bureaucratic

2025 / Slovenia

Bureaucratic

Pages from the sketchbook. Slovenia, Italy, Paris, Disney. The figure that appears at every border.

2025 / Sketchbook

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Pages from the sketchbook

2025

Pages from the sketchbook

Cover slide of the 2025 travel sketchbook series.

2025 / Sketchbook

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Lisik and Kisa

2025 / On the road

Lisik and Kisa

Jack and Richie. This is how I carry things. Pencil on paper. After something happens.

2025 / Sketchbook

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Lisik and Kisa — line study

2025

Lisik and Kisa — line study

Same characters, stripped to the line. The version before the colour decision.

2025 / Sketchbook

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2 hours at the border

2025 / Slovenia ⇄ EU

2 hours at the border

Insects in ties. SVN 2025. EU only 14d. Sometimes the bureaucratic figure speaks.

2025 / Sketchbook

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Stressed out

2025

Stressed out

Socks under diazepam. Literally.

2025 / Sketchbook

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Kisa passed duolingo

2025 / Somewhere in Europe

Kisa passed duolingo

"You know english." Coffee. Headphones. Somewhere in Europe. This is how we traveled.

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2025 / Sketchbook

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2025 / Sketchbook

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2025 / Sketchbook

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2025 / Sketchbook

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What these are, what they are not.

Most of these drawings are made on the same three paper formats — a Moleskine with hard cover, a stack of A5 mixed-media paper, and sometimes the back of a print that was not supposed to be anything. Tools: whichever pen is within reach. Usually a Rotring isograph, sometimes a brush pen, sometimes graphite.

They're not storyboards for music videos. They're not album artwork drafts. They're thinking — the kind that doesn't work in language and doesn't yet work in sound. Somewhere between those two states.

I publish them here because the gap between sketch and track is where the project actually lives. If you only see the finished music, you see maybe 10% of what ShiShi is.

drawing is how a track starts the shape before the sound paper is faster than software sometimes a sketch is enough most of these never became anything that is also fine