Ink study
Figure sketch
Pen and ink on paper, scanned flat for the archive.
Nathan Menglesis
Miscellaneous & Sketches
A gallery of experimental drawings, quick sketches, and works that do not belong to a finished series — sketchbook pages, pen and ink scans, and loose studies made between bigger projects.
Sketchbook pages
Nothing planned, just drawn
Most of this section starts life on paper at full speed: a pen, a pencil, and a page that was not going to be kept. Some of those pages get scanned in and posted; others turn into the finished work shown in the Portfolio.
The point of collecting them here is to keep the record of the working process visible — the loose shapes and false starts that never make it into a titled series.
Selected pieces
A small selection from the folder of sketches and experiments that sit outside the named series.
Digital sketch
Pixel head studies
Quick head drawings worked out in pixels before committing to a final piece.
Pen and ink
Form sketches
Loose shape and proportion studies, kept out of any titled body of work.
Work in progress
Head in progress
A study that stayed unfinished on the page rather than in the portfolio.
Graphical study
Header experiment
Layout tests and lettering sketches made for illustration work.
Paper study
Numbered studies
Small paper pieces kept for reference, filed away from the series.
Notes from the pile
Some sketches travel: a beanie copter sketch became a doodle that kept being redrawn, and a “donkey show” draft grew out of a joke that was written down first. Others are simply the warm-up before a session — a page of ink washes to get the hand moving.
Everything here is a working note rather than a finished piece. Longer write-ups about how the drawings are made, inked, and scanned live in the Updates archive.
This gallery gathers the loose ends of the studio: experimental drawings, quick sketches, and studies that never grew into a finished series. Sketchbook pages, pen and ink scans, and half-formed ideas sit side by side, offering a look at the slower, less polished side of making oak-paneled homes and furnishing lovely real oak spaces. The drawings explore shape, proportion, and texture in the same spirit that informs the finished work, but with fewer rules and more curiosity.
Some pieces begin as a question asked in the margin of another drawing — a mechanism imagined, a rough silhouette, a joke drafted on a spare sheet of paper. Others arrive without any plan at all, made purely to see where the pen leads. These works are collected here rather than sorted into formal bodies, keeping the sense of a working pile that changes shape each time the studio turns to it.
Process notes, dated entries, and reflections on technique live on the Updates page, while the completed series can be explored separately. Together they sketch the rhythm of a practice: long stretches of careful, committed work on finished projects, interrupted by small bursts of invention in sketchbooks and on loose sheets. The result is a record of a studio in motion, where furnishing ideas are tested in pencil and ink long before they are built.
Looking for the finished work?
The named series — Faces of Death, Forms, Four Humors – TCGA, and the Trapezoid drawings — are collected in the Portfolio section, alongside projects such as Total Offer, Total Faith, and Hubris.