3x3: A Post-It Note Art Book

Almost ten years ago, I found myself, like so many who chose to enter corporate life, in a meeting. In that meeting there was lots of people talking about things that generally had nothing to do with me or my job but there was lots of Post-It notes laying around. So I did what many people do in that scenario, I started scribbling. Aimless scribbling became focused drawing and soon it became something I genuinely enjoyed doing. The small size, the spontaneity, the ability to start and finish something quick. It was liberating and fun. 

When I left the corporate life behind I kept doing Post-It notes occasionally. To warm up, to jot down an idea, or to do actually roughs for paying gigs. The 3"x3" format had become a familiar and comfortable workspace. 

Annually I participate in Inktoberfest, a month-long challenge to do a piece of inked artwork daily, with a prompt word provided as an optional keystone. After participating in Inktober for several years I found that the Post-It notes gave me a great canvas to work with. I could do something quick, relatively easy and and there wasn't enough room for me to get too ambitious, as I am wont to do. The daily prompt words gave me a loose topic for me to riff on and the short one or two sentence stories I'd write along with the Post-it notes started to become just as enjoyable to do as the art itself.

Before I knew it I found that I had close to a hundred of these things - the fun exercise had given me a considerable amount of work doing nothing but gathering dust on a shelf in a sketchbook. So I decided to collect my favorites into a book. This is that book.