birdbook

march 8-april 12, 2026

this sketchbook marks a years time since i made this website. waahooo. ive drawn a lot of different ways. i'm grateful for peoples interest! so cool. i don't know if i'll keep this project going in this exact way, but i'm constantly drawing and i hope it comes together into a tangible project at some point.

awesome morning late for work long phone call the night before

drawing peoples feet so i don't have to look into their face but its funny in a different way

open mic scraps, early in the time of me reading my writing there

portraits and ephemera, moving away from working in the book itself

was having a weird thing bout drawing straight into the book. it felt better using scraps

subway portrait, working with my writing

sticky notes at kleenex girl wonder, just to have something to do with myself

drawing from life of john cushing in slide stops and then i drew the dog from the drawing yea

more work experience! the chicken caeser prediction was true and they demand it at all costs

more subway work. cant always tell when they see me

frances across from me in a ridgewood cafe drawing and wearing the necklace i gave her a few years ago

every other panel comic w fran, it doesn't make sense exactly but we had fun

from a conversation in m and s nice restaurant

my impression of vi drawn in the chaispot

failed subway legs and comic, its one of my favorite pages for somer reason

and i kinda kept messing up so i just did it over and over again

trying to draw interesting looking women like i used to always do in the margins of my schoolwork

drawn from life while working on theo's music video

drawn at work, thinking of? relationships? drinking?

its hard to draw a drummer they are moving soo much so lynn just looks like a random anime character not gonna lie

entertaining m'self feeling my feelings and whatever

using the paint pens at work i dont really like how this looks but its cool

imagining a dream i had when i was little, of flying

guy on a train i think he looks like a shephard

sad little park bench ruminations but i think its funny

internal, and from a conversation w theo about souls and shit like that

busker! sat and listened to him and drew all sorts of people for a while

train maiden and lady who left in the middle of the drawing

back o house doodles, magnet nat gave meee

and yes here it is! if you have any thoughts, i always love to hear about it. reach out via email and i'll respond in long form: instinctfragile@gmail.com. since a few notebooks in a thought it would be cool to do a "best of" type zine in physical reality but i just wish i had an external force of an editor to tell me which drawings to put out... WELL what can you do maybe one day i'll buckle down! for now i'm glad to be here with you. check out the last notebook i put out from february, or the first one in this project, or just go home
bye for now! -ellis